Miss Spain to baroness

XVIII Festival Pirineos Sur 2009 Description: Mariza (www.mariza.com) Born in the former Portuguese colony of Mozambique in 1973, Mariza have conquered, with the force of his soul and his throat, discipline and working status universal singer Amalia, Piaf, Elis, Ella Garland women whose name is enough for immediate recognition and enthusiasm. Mariza began to be recognized in 1999 following the death of the larger history of fado, Amalia Rodrigues, whose posthumous tribute participate. His father was his natural mother and catalan Los Arcos (Navarra), Carmen town happen to be some summers nina. There is currently a House of Culture with its name, went to be opened in 2000.
Church of Los Arcos, birthplace of the mother of Carmen.
His parents separated when she was five, although according to some biographies, this is masked for years by the moral prejudices of the time.
From modest origins, his mother strove to give a good education and seek a professional and economic success to her (very beautiful and gifted to sing) was unable to pursue their family obligations.
Carmen study in several private schools in Barcelona and later in London. It is said that during his time in the United Kingdom, participated in a performance of flamenco by Elizabeth II of England. Some add that there biografias study in Switzerland. During the summer season Sitges. Being still very young had an affair with French rocker Johnny Hallyday, before he married Sylvie Vartan.
In 1961 won the Miss Spain contest, he had attended as Miss Catalonia, and is third in the Miss Universe contest. His mother was a determining factor in his face off as popular. So, asked for help to La Vanguardia newspaper to promote his daughter. This journal published the first interview of the girl Carmen Cervera. Working as a photographic model and as such posed for an advertisement for watches.
Participation in Miss Universe allowed Carmen to travel to Hollywood. Along with other participants, attended a promotional event where I met Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra, the latter told jokes she did not understand green and second story, was Marilyn Monroe who went to his aid: "Frank, do not say these things to the girl, which is very ingenua . According to Carmen, "Marilyn was very small, like a mermaid, wearing a dress with stones brillantes .
In 1965 she married the actor Lex Barker, famous for his Tarzan films, whom he had met on a flight to Zurich to ask for an autograph. During this marriage, I met most of the movie figures Sinatra gift them a German shepherd dog.
Widowed in 1972 when Lex Barker died so unexpectedly of a heart attack in New York. Some sources claim the couple lived a crisis and that the death occurred in the process of divorce. Carmen inherited most of its assets, including a chalet in San Feliu de Guixols.
In 1975, Carmen started a relationship with the well-known film producer and playboy Venezuelan Espartaco Santoni. Is the case, a marriage that finally broke invalid for bigamy it. Santoni was involved in financial disputes and ending in prison, economically damaging to Carmen. In those years, she participated in the movie with humor and destape and some co-production thriller genre. Have been attributed to him by mistake a few movies with Paco Martinez Soria, being confused with the actress Carmen Garcia Cervera.
In his brief stage in the movie, highlights a co-production filmed in Mexico with Robert Wagner. At that time, she held a short story romance with Al Pacino, then booming for her role in The Godfather.
In 1980 gave birth to her only biological child (not adopted): Borja, whose father is not disclosed. In 1981 he met her third husband, Baron Hans Heinrich von Thyssen, but becomes his fifth wife until 1985, even as the litigation with his former wife, Denise Short. After the wedding, held at a court in England, the baron gave its name to Borja own son.
In 2007, widow of the baron, Carmen takes two twin girls born in United States, who named Carmen (in memory of his mother) and Sabina (the name of his maternal grandmother). I present to the press through an article of the magazine Hello! in May 2008.
On January 31, 2008 his son Borja Cuesta Blanca and her daughter give her first grandchild to call Sacha in honor of his father, as the first name is Alejandro Borja. Sacha is the Russian diminutive of Alexander (''''''''').
On October 1, 2008 Baroness inaugurated his star on the Walk of Fame Puerto Banus .

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