Camilo Sesto

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Camilo Sesto
Birth name	Camilo Blanes Cortés
Born	September 16 1946 (1946-09-16) (age 61)
Origin	Valencia, Spain
Genre(s)	Pop
Occupation(s)	Vocalist
Website	Official site

Camilo Blanes Cortés (born September 16 1946) better known in the entertainment world as Camilo Sesto is a Spanish singer and composer who enjoyed fame during the 1970s and the 1980s. Probably the most prominent male voice of Spanish pop music at that time, he became famous for his powerful, carefully arranged ballads.

Life

Camilo Sesto was born in Alcoi, a Valencian city located in the province of Alicante on September 16 1946. Sesto sang in two pop bands during the 1960s and won a contest in a Madrid TV show. He also played a part in the Spanish filming of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Later, he teamed up with singer and producer Juan Pardo. In 1970, Sesto moved to Los Angeles and started to learn English. After successfully starring in the Spanish version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Jesus Christ Superstar in 1975, Sesto began to gain fame as a singer and composer. Year after year, he reached the top of the charts all over Latin America and in Spain, leaving us classics like Algo de mí (1972), Melina (1975), a song about Melina Mercouri and Perdóname (1981), the latter being his most successful hit. During that period, he amassed great fortune, and every song came from his sole inspiration. Sesto sang almost all of his songs composed by himself with some exceptions like Horacio Guarani's "Si Se Calla El Cantor" and a few others .Other Camilo Sesto hits:Quieres ser mi Amante?,El Amor de mi Vida,No Sabes Cuanto te Quiero,etc. In the 1980s he composed the song and sang the theme for Colorina with Lucia Mendez Soap Opera one of the most successful Telenovela in the 80's, He also produce her a pop ballad Hit album Cerca de ti. It was a smash hit. Sesto became more and more reclusive, especially after his son was born in 1983 by a Mexican fan. After recovering from liver transplant, in 2003 he managed to make a short comeback with his album Alma, surprising the audience with the song Mola mazo (It rules) in an exercise of self-assertion. Camilo Sesto returned to the scenario back in 2004 in El Festival Vina del Mar en Chile. His old fans and new ones cheered the great Spaniard as he sang songs from his amazing catalog. In the end Camilo Sesto left el Festival Vina del Mar 2004 with many awards. His last musical work was the singing of Bujalance football team hymn (a Spanish football team). Til this day , Camilo Sesto has sold more than 70 million albums worldwide.