Nino Bravo was one of the most valued singers in music in Spain during the last century. The Valencian became an icon of performances and films in the mid-60s and early 70s, creating such famous songs as Libre. However, his life was suddenly cut short on April 16, 1973, after a traffic accident in which his vehicle left the road near Villarrubio.
This week, the program Y Ahora Sonsoles has remembered the artist on the 51st anniversary of his loss. During this Wednesday's broadcast, it was the turn of his photographer Martín Frías to intervene, who also had a special guest on the phone: Nino Bravo's own daughter, Eva Ferri. Through her conversation with those present on the set, she was able to talk about her life at birth after the death of his father.
His mother was in charge of reminding the family of everything his father had done in life. She was born with the story already present at home, knowing that the woman was pregnant at the time of the accident. Eva confessed that the memories she conveyed to him were practically those of “newlyweds,” and she admitted that it was difficult to recreate the figure of Nino Bravo half a century after his death, but that she imagined him singing and dancing.
These have not been the only statements made by Eva Ferri this week, after an interview for the COPE network this past Monday. “For as long as we can remember, we have lived surrounded by my father, as a father and family person, and also as an artist. Her songs are the soundtrack of our lives,” she acknowledged on the radio antenna, knowing that music was what allowed her to get to know him better.
Back on the Wednesday program of And Now Sonsoles, Martín Frías has had the opportunity to tell what the last photographic report he made of him was like, and which would end up being published posthumously after his accident. They both spent an entire day together, 72 hours before that fateful April 16, and he himself recognized that his image seemed like that of an artist with a multitude of experiences yet to live.
The news of his death caught him working on the report in question, which would end up talking about Nino Bravo for 10 pages. According to his explanations, he found out through the radio. “He was an indispensable person for me at that time because he was tired of divos, and he didn't have anything divo about him,” he explained.
