La Chelito
La Chelito | |
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| File:Consuelo Portela.jpeg Portela-Audet in the early 20th-century | |
| Born | Consuelo Portela Audet 1885 Placetas, Las Villas, Cuba |
| Died | 20 November 1959 (aged 73–74) Madrid, Spain |
| Other names | Consuelo Portela-Audet, Consuelo Portela, La Bella Chelito |
| Occupation(s) | Cuplé singer, business person |
Consuelo Portela Audet (1885–1959), commonly called La Bella Chelito and La Chelito, was a Cuban-born Spanish cuplé singer from the early 20th-century, and a theater business owner.[1][2][3] She was a pioneer in the genre of picaresque cuplé.[4]
Biography
She was born in Placetas, Las Villas, Cuba, to Spanish parents Antonia Audet and Isidro Portella.[5][2] Her father was the captain of the Civil Guard in Cuba.[2] She started singing at the age of 14, while living in Cuba and performed at the Payret, Molino Rojo and Alhambra theaters.[5] She had critics including clergy, who labeled her as “libidinous satan” in the Diario de la Marina, the Cuban newspaper.[5] After she retired from stage in 1928, she built and managed the Muñoz Seca Theater in Plaza del Carmen, Madrid in 1930.[5] She also owned and managed the Salón Madrid; the Hall Encomienda, which became, after a reform, the Teatro Nuevo; and the Kursaal that she acquired in 1919 and renamed the Chanteclair.[2] Other notable "Queens of cuplé" were La Fornarina and Raquel Meller.[6]
References
- ↑ "Review: The Plan". Cineuropa. Retrieved 2022-09-23.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Consuelo Portella Audet". Real Academia de la Historia (in español). Retrieved 2022-09-23.
- ↑ "Consuelo Portella Audet". El País (in español). 2006-05-05. ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
- ↑ "LA CHELÍTO y su época". Archivo ABC (in español). Madrid, Spain. November 28, 1959. p. 14. Retrieved 2022-09-23.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 "Chelito, la bella cantante de cuplé que dio calabazas a un rey de España por el amor de un cubano". Todo Cuba (in español). 2018-05-08. Retrieved 2022-09-23.
- ↑ Fernández, Tomás; Tamaro, Elena (2004). "Biografia de La Bella Chelito" [Biography of La Bella Chelito]. En Biografías y Vidas, la enciclopedia biográfica en línea. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
