On the street of Alcalá, with the starchy skirt and the tuberoses and lean on your hips..." is one of the indelible stanzas that Celia Gámez bequeathed to music fans upon her death, on December 10, 1992, in her Native Buenos Aires.
In Spain she was idolized not only for her tangos, but above all for her traditional airs as a sublime interpreter of pasodobles and chotis. The daughter of emigrants from Malaga, from Madrid by adoption, 'La Celia' became a star from her bizarre first performance in 1925.
She came from Argentina with her father to solve an inheritance problem, a marquise heard her sing tango on the train and invited her to participate in a charity function attended by Alfonso XIII. The monarch would be the fervent admirer of her.
The zenith of his career was reached in 1969 with the magazine Las Leandras, which featured the song Los nardos and the funny El pichi.
