It is 51 years since the death of the singer Nino Bravo. Luis Manuel Ferri Llopis, popularly known as Nino Bravo, died at the age of 28 after suffering a fatal car accident on April 16, 1973. His unexpected death shocked all of Spain, since the young artist was practically beginning his career. musical. He was considered one of the great promises of national pop in our country.
On Tuesday afternoon, just when it was 51 years since the birth of a myth, the Sonsoles Ónega program interviewed live Pepe Juesas, one of Nino Bravo’s great friends, who had not been on a television set for years, and who was with the singer in the car that day the fateful accident occurred.
Pepe Juesas and Nino Bravo met when they were just 16 years old thanks to the group Supersons. ”The first time I heard his voice it was brutal. He always caused a sensation when we played at festivals (…) People stopped dancing to listen to him. We knew that he was a privileged voice,’ he said.
According to the singer’s close friend, Nino Bravo was always a humble person, but selective with his closest circle. ”He analyzed a lot what approached him. He had a very good clinical eye. But in the world of music and especially at that time, you had to dig a lot,’ he said.
But when the artist was at the peak of his successful musical career, a tragic car accident forever extinguished his voice. A moment that Pepe Juesas experienced firsthand. On April 16, 1973, the Valencian singer traveled from Valencia to Madrid to attend to different professional commitments. But he wasn’t alone in the car. His great friend Pepe Juesas was in the passenger seat, and Miguel Diarni and Fernando Romero were in the back seats.
Unfortunately, the car never reached the capital and in the middle of a sharp curve it skidded, leaving the road and causing multiple injuries to the singer. He was later transferred to a Madrid hospital, but due to the severity of his injuries, doctors could do nothing for his life. ”It is very difficult for me to see the images in which I lost my friend Nino,” he declared.
About the moments before the accident, Pepe Juesas said that they came from lunch. ”It is the paradox of those who say whether the death of Nino Bravo could have been avoided. I don’t know, we traveled a lot for concerts. But that day we had rested and stopped for lunch in Villarrubia. Then we resumed the trip and we had the accident,’ he said. Furthermore, the guest assured that it was very hard for him to remember the moment of the accident. ”I was on the verge of becoming a paraplegic and I was hospitalized for 22 days,” he said while he said that he found out about the death of his friend due to an indiscretion by a health worker.
