On the night of this Thursday, June 15, we were surprised by the death of the ventriloquist Mari Carmenbetter known as Mari Carmen and her dollspassionate about Tenerife that a few years ago he decided to move to live on the Island, where he died as a result of a fall.
Maria del Carmen Martinez-Villasenor Barrasa -his real name- he chose Puerto de la Cruz to spend his last yearsa land in which he had lived before and to which he decided to return because he loved it. “This is a paradise,” he came to affirm in an interview with EL DÍAfrom the Prensa Ibérica group, just a couple of years ago.
The weather and the people They were just two of the reasons that motivated her to live in Tenerife. But there was even one more important: on the Island she was happy. And she was so happy that she had been living in the Canary Islands for about five years.
His love for Puerto de la Cruz also made it clear with these words: “It’s like Eden”, even so he defined it in the middle of a pandemic. In fact, as a joke, he even commented that the only thing he didn’t like were potholes, although even they had grown fond of them.
his trajectory
mary carmen He looked for work in Madrid in a puppet theater when he was barely 16 years old. But his great success came with the ventriloquism. Her ability to connect with the public allowed her to achieve success and become a great television star. But in her journey she was not alone, next to her were her inseparable hand puppets: Nícol the duck, Daisy, Rodolfo and, above all, Doña Rogeliaalso known as their dolls. He reached stardom at the end of the 1960s and remained a benchmark in the world of humor until well into the 1990s.
It was so common to see her on television with her dolls, that nobody imagines her without them. When she moved to Tenerife she brought her own “children”, as she called them. Some “children” who accompanied her in every interview or intervention she made on radio or television and who even interrupted her in any other conversation.
This Thursday, their dolls have been orphanedas all those followers who loved her and enjoyed her sketches have also been left a bit orphaned.
