Days of mourning in Cantora. Three days after the 37th anniversary of Paquirri’s death, the family has confirmed
the death of Doña Ana, the mother of Isabel Pantojaat 90 years old. The matriarch, who had been in delicate health for several years due to a degenerative disease that she suffered from and a stroke that occurred in 2019, had been admitted with a reserved prognosis to the Puerto Real Hospital, and after a slight improvement, she was discharged on last weekend to recover with his children Isabel and Agustín in Cantora. But this time it couldn’t be.
Ana María Martín, born on the 22nd of 1931, suffered from Alzheimer’s for years, and in this time his health had been deteriorating like his memories. However, for decades,
His figure was closely linked to that of his daughterIsabel Pantoja, whom he always accompanied (from a discreet background) on her tours, in her artistic career and also in her (convulsed) family life, to the point of coining the expression «
be like Pantoja’s mother», referring to those mother-daughter relationships in which the maternal figure is very present.
Doña Ana never gave an interview, but his biography is well known in the society press. She was of Calé race, and when she was young she was known as Ana La Melones, because she was the daughter of El Lechuga and worked in the family fruit shop. In 1952 she married the flamenco singer and lyricist Juan Pantoja Cortés, Chiquetete, with whom she had four children (Agustín, Juan Antonio, Bernardo and Isabel) and she herself tried her luck on stage, although with short-lived success.
Always dressed in mourning since she was widowed at the age of 43there are those who even say that he was the one who ‘chose’ Paquirri as a suitable husband for Isabel Pantoja, and that
He never knew that his daughter went to prison for the Malaya case: They told him that ‘his Maribel’ was on tour in America.
When the bloody Cantora war broke out, his head had already erased all his memories, and perhaps
Doña Ana has left without realizing that ‘her favorite grandson’, Kiko Rivera, had not been able to visit her for months. «My grandmother, whom
They won’t let me go and say goodbye because of shitty family problems.. Express orders from Cantora… We don’t want anyone to come,” lamented the artist from La Graciosa, where a good part of the family is to celebrate Anabel Pantoja’s wedding. Isabel Pantoja’s son has said goodbye to his grandmother with a long and emotional post on Instagram full of
accusations and poisoned darts towards his mother and those closest to him.
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Kiko Rivera, totally devastated, says goodbye to his grandmother
“Today you are gone and part of my life has gone with you (…) Yaya of my soul, so many months without seeing you and now I will never see you again.” The DJ assures that no one from his family had informed him of the real state of the matriarch nor had they given him the details of her farewell. «I don’t know what is going to be done or where, neither schedules nor absolutely anything.
I just want them to let me say goodbye to my grandmother. I don’t want to hear from anyone else, I don’t give a shit about everyone else. Because they are all undesirable. I will stay waiting and praying for you. I will remain still and silent thinking about you (…) Your soul lives in me and although I cannot say goodbye to you (I did at the time), now I need it again, I will always carry you in me.
For both Kiko Rivera, Isa Pantoja and Anabel, Doña Ana’s most prominent grandchildren, the fatal news has reached them through the media while they are on the island of La Graciosa, where the wedding was scheduled to take place this weekend. by Anabel and Omar Sánchez. However, according to Hola exclusively,
The television collaborator would have canceled the wedding ‘in extremis’ to be able to return to the peninsula to say goodbye to his grandmother. The terrible relationship between Isabel Pantoja and her children makes one doubt whether they will finally accompany her cousin in this goodbye, because for now, what has come to light in the press is that
Isabel Pantoja wants to say goodbye to her mother in the strictest privacy, alone with her brother Agustín and the farm staff. Apparently, the matriarch will be cremated at the Jerez de la Frontera funeral home.
