“The world of humor and the artistic world are in mourning.” This is how Karina begins her farewell to María del Carmen Martínez-Villaseñor, better known as ‘Mari Carmen and her dolls’, who died on June 15 after suffering an accidental fall in Tenerife at the age of 80.
A very dear companion and friend for the interpreter of songs like El baúl de los recuerdos, who used Instagram to share how she felt after learning of the comedian’s death. Sharing a photo montage in which Mari Carmen and Karina can be seen in their youth, accompanied by Doña Rogelia, perhaps the most famous doll of the well-known ventriloquist, the singer says goodbye to her friend.
“Today, the world of humor and the artistic world are in mourning. My deepest condolences to the family, especially their son, and friends of Mari Carmen, a great professional,” Karina says goodbye.
In addition, the singer takes the opportunity to call attention to a subject that usually goes unnoticed and perhaps even considered taboo: attention to the elderly. “From here, a little reflection if you allow me: let’s remember our elders in life, let’s pay tribute to them in life, that sometimes we do not remember until they are gone,” she asked her followers.
A reflection that another of Mari Carmen’s friends has probably already made, José Manuel Parada, who precisely lamented not having been able to see her in the last months of her life despite being close to her, thinking that he would have another opportunity. “For many years we can still keep each other company,” he said, unable to imagine that it would be the last time he wished her a happy birthday on May 5.
Pedro Ruiz, a close friend of the comedian, was one of the last people who could see her before the accidental fall that ended fatally. “She has been unique and original. No one can take her place,” she said, before praising how she was able to convey humor in a different way.
Others, like Moncho Borrajo, were grateful that he had not suffered in his last moments. The humorist, like her audience, remembers her as one of the happiest women he had ever met: “She was a wonderful madwoman.”
