More than forty years ago, Lola Flores, in the middle of the show and without a second’s hesitation, stopped her live performance to ask for an earring to be returned. It had been on the program Tonight, party by José María Íñigo, and the iconic Pharaoh He addressed the public at the legendary Florida Park in Madrid to claim his jewel.
It was a piece of gold valued at 6,000 pesetas, a luxury that had cost him “so much work” to obtain. The earring never appeared. Decades later, Lolita Flores, his daughter, revived that anecdote during her interview in Late Xou with Marc Giró, and along the way took the opportunity to add a detail that until then had remained a secret.
For years, no one knew who had picked up the earring that night in Florida Park, and the mystery became almost a legend. However, five years ago, Lolita discovered, thanks to a family coincidence, that the earring had ended up in the hands of a spectator named Mila who was attending the show and who, unknowingly, was destined to be part of the Flores story: “She is my grandchildren’s great-grandmother.”
Sonsoles Martín Garea, the daughter of that woman who had kept Lola Flores’ jewel, years later would become the mother-in-law of Elena Furiase, Lolita’s daughter. As the artist said, Mila is the mother of her mother-in-law and, therefore, grandmother of her son-in-law Gonzalo Sierra.
Thus, Sonsoles’ mother kept that earring as a small treasure, without imagining that this golden jewel that her “little money” had cost Lola Flores would end up, years later, connecting both families through their respective grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Source: www.lavanguardia.com
