Karina You will always be in our hearts. At 78 years old, many call her ‘the grandmother of Spain’ because of her tender, close and extroverted side, which we adore almost as much as her side as a singer. Between the 60s, 70s and 80s she swept here and in Latin America with great songs like The arrows of love, Romeo and Juliet, The trunk of memories o Party.
Was the Spanish representative in Eurovision in 1971 con in a new world and finished second, behind Monaco. She had an interest in acting and participated in several films and recently in reality shows.
Beyond her popular career, not everything has been smiles, since María Isabel (her real name) has faced difficult family moments, such as five divorces or having a granddaughter with a rare disease.
His five failed marriages
Love reached Karina for the first time in 1961, and she fell in love with the Madrid guitarist. Tony Luz. At that time, she was successful as a soloist and he was successful within the band. Los Pekenikes, both signing for the company Hispavox. They met a lot in the hallways and the feeling began.
The guitarist was the composer of the song that she defended at Eurovision.
It was a long relationship and led in 1973 to a simple wedding in Illescas to avoid crowds of fans. The marriage did not last long and They divorced in 1974. Tony passed away in 2017.
His next partner was the actor Carlos Manuel Díaz, whom she saw in the theater in the early 80s and ended up becoming the great love of her life, as she has said on several occasions. A few months later, They married in 1981and they gave birth to their first daughter, Orange Blossom.
In 1987, they announced that they ended their marriage and Karina did not hide that she was devastated by the divorce. “He was not well. I told him that he had freedom if he wanted, but that we should not separate because my daughter hurt me a lot,” she told the media.
It was not the end of their relationship and they remained friends for the well-being of his daughter. In recent years, they have attended several red carpets together and are even part of the cast of the play I am Karina.
A year after the separation, the artist from Jaén found the hairdresser Juan Miguel Martínez y They married in 1988 on the island of Moorea, in Tahiti. She could not celebrate the wedding in Spain as she had not yet received the divorce papers from Carlos. The two were looking for an iconic destination full of esotericism so they would never forget it.
In 1989, their second daughter, Rocío, was born. The couple moved to Castellón de la Plana, where the problems began when she barely saw her little girl because she spent hours with her father at the hairdresser. The drama came when Karina came home one day and Juan Miguel was found next to a man in bed.
The singer took her partner to court asking custody of his daughter, but they did not grant it. Rocío spent more time with him and assumed that Karina recognized that she “did not have such a close bond” with her than with Azahara.
Five years after the divorce, the interpreter of The trunk of memories presented her next husband to society Sunday Terroba and they said ‘I do’ in Stockholm (Sweden) in 1995. It was a fictitious wedding and it all ended after a year, when the two couldn’t even see each other.
“It was used to gain popularity and once she got a manager and a record company, and she got what she wanted, releasing an album… Then she kicked me, and she gave it to me in the worst way that can be given to a person, inventing the worst of the world,” the writer said in 2017.
And he added: “The damage he did to me was indelible, that is something that cannot be corrected in a lifetime. In fact, he sent me to psychiatric treatment and psychological for 18 years and with that I say it all. I’m still there, I go to therapy less, but I’m still there.”
Karina’s romantic history ends in the late 90s with the real estate agent and former presenter Miguel Leon. In 2000 she married him through a Celtic rite in Galicia, although they would break up two years later.
His daughters Azahara and Rocío
Karina’s eldest daughter, Orange Blossomwas born from her marriage to Carlos Manuel Díaz in 1982 (41 years) in Madrid. For a time, she worked as a stewardess for various airlines, however, she left to collaborate side by side with her mother as her community manager. taking social media to it.
The pandemic was the turning point for her because the singer gained a lot of popularity for your hilarious videos and preferred to leave the organization in the hands of his firstborn. She acts as his representative, managing appointments and his agenda.
He married in 2023 and has three children: José Carlos (6 years old), Ana (2) and Elena (1).
His second daughter, Dewis the result of the romance with the hairdresser Juan Miguel Martínez, she is 33 years old and works as dentist at the Provincial Hospital of Castellón. Unlike her sister Azahara, she appears in many of her mother’s videos on her Instagram and we can frequently see them doing funny dances. About her private life, we know nothing.
As a result of Rocío’s custody being denied to Karina, her daughter spent less time with her and recognizes that He does not have the same bond with her as with the older woman.. “It’s not that I don’t have a mother, I feel like I don’t have the bond like my sister, because I’m not with her as much,” he reflected in 2017.
For her part, the singer has taken advantage of her coming of age to get closer to her and right now they are neck and neck and she adores both of them equally, although She would have loved to have been seen in her golden years.: “I would have liked so much for them to know so much about some of my moments of splendor, when my records were played on the radio or television,” she said about her daughters.
The rare illness of his granddaughter Ana
His granddaughter Ana suffers from a rare disease, which was recently diagnosed and has to do with glucose problems. Karina told it during her time on a well-known reality television show, stating that he had signed up to raise money for her.
Through tears, the singer said: “My granddaughter Ana it’s a little bad, but I ask God every night that she gets well. “That’s why I’m here, so that my daughter can look for better doctors.”
In response to Karina’s confession, her daughter Azahara made a long statement explaining what happened: “As my mother has revealed, my daughter was diagnosed with A serious illness and rare when he was only 1 month and 23 days old. We have spent a lot of time in hospitals. Currently, she is under control and leads as normal a life as possible, but due to her illness needs permanent 24-hour care“.
Likewise, he emphasized that he would not speak about the subject again to respect the anonymity of his family.
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