Luis Miguel may be living one of his best moments on a professional and personal level, with his career back at the top and his romance with Paloma Cuevas consolidating day after day; But surely what he did not expect was that at this point in his life, it would take an unexpected turn.
The reason, a mystery that could obtain an answer that he had been waiting for almost 40 years, is that his mother, Marcela Basteri, could be alive after disappearing without a trace and not having been heard from since 1986.
The singer’s mother, the Italian-Argentine Marcela Basteri, was in Spain with the now you can leave singer, who was only 16 years old at the time; her when she disappeared without a trace. Her body was never found, and everything indicated that her husband and father of the artist, the Spaniard Luis Gallego Sánchez – known as Luisito Rey – could have had something to do with it.
Evidence was never obtained against the singer’s father, who had a stormy relationship with his son, to say the least; and the case remained mired in absolute mystery for decades. Luisito Rey died in 1992, and what really happened was never known again.
If something happened, because Ivana and Flavia Basteri, cousins ??of the singer, have carried out DNA tests to see if Marcela Basteri is still alive, convinced that she is a woman who lives in Argentina after the local press called attention on a homeless woman with a striking resemblance to Basteri who was wandering the streets of the Montserrat neighborhood in Buenos Aires.
However, the appearance of the woman, whose name was Honorina Montes, an Asturian who had been presumed dead; She was analyzed by several specialists who concluded that she was not the artist’s mother. But for the nieces of the missing woman, Luis Miguel’s cousins, that woman was his aunt. For this reason, they did not hesitate to offer themselves and asked the judge to perform a DNA test to compare her genetic material and that of Montes, who is currently admitted to a Buenos Aires psychiatric hospital.
Evidence that arrives five years after said request and that is now being analyzed in a laboratory in Miami (United States). At the moment, Luis Miguel has not made any statement in this regard, but his cousins ??confirm that he is aware of everything that is happening.
After the disappearance of his mother, Sol de México lived a very complicated adolescence due to the workload imposed on him by his own father. Luis Miguel’s career began when he was only 11 years old, because as a child we saw the great talent he had, but his mother acted as a brake on the ambitious goals of Luisito Rey, who acted as representative of the then child Luis. Miguel.
Luisito Rey was known for abusing his son’s fame, and it was always known that he had serious financial problems, which greatly complicated their relationship as the singer grew up. Luis Rey also invented that Basteri had abandoned them for an alleged lover, hiding that in reality it had been he who had not allowed her mother to become more involved in the life of her own son. In 1990, Luis Miguel dedicated the song I have everything except you to his mother.
Upon reaching the age of majority, the singer made the decision and bond with his father, who died in 1992 without becoming involved in his son’s life again.
