The performance is organized by the Education, Culture, New Technologies and Data Center area of the Cabildo de Lanzarote and the Obra Social de la Caja de Canarias and will take place on Friday, January 26, at 9:00 p.m. at the Teatro de San Bartolomé. The concert is in collaboration with the San Bartolomé City Council. Tickets cost 30 ? and will go on sale next Monday, January 15, from 8:30 a.m., at the CIC El Almacén and in the Culture Department of the San Bartolomé City Council.
Rafael Martos was born in Linares (Jaén). His professional career began in 1962, winning first prize at the Benidorm Festival. His prodigious voice and his particular way of interpreting have been his main weapons to remain, year after year, as an indisputable figure among Spanish-speaking singers, with a very personal stamp, conquering a privileged place in the international music scene.
A pioneer of popular music in Spanish, Raphael, a tireless worker, has taken his art and his language to almost every corner of the Earth. In the first stage of his career, Raphael participates two consecutive years in the Eurovision Song Contest, stars in several films directed by Mario Camus, Vicente Escrivá, Javier Aguirre or Antonio Isasi, obtains great success on the radio with his series of programs "El Raphael Show" for the SER network, and on Spanish Television with the series "El Mundo de Raphael".
Of his continuous and countless tours of Spain, his first concert at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, the long seasons at the Palacio de la Música or the Teatro Monumental, the recitals at the Palau de la Música in Barcelona, the Teatro Falla and the José María Pemán Auditorium in Cádiz, the Villamarta in Jerez, the Romea in Murcia, the San Fernando in Seville, the Palau de la Música in Valencia, the Teatro Gayarre in Pamplona, the Victoria Eugenia in San Sebastián, the Arriaga in Bilbao, the Campoamor in Oviedo, the Jovellanos in Gijón, the Teatro Real in Madrid... Also noteworthy is his massive concert at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium on the occasion of his XXV artistic anniversary.
Raphael has taken his songs to the most important stages in the world: the Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall and Madison Square Garden in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the Palladium and the Talk of the Town in London, the Shrine Auditorium, Greek Theater and Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles, the Olympia in Paris, the Bellas Artes in Mexico, the Opera House in Sydney, the Teatro de la Opera in Buenos Aires, the Teresa Carreño in Caracas, the Bellas Artes in Puerto Rico, the Teatro Opera in Tokyo, the Rossia in Moscow, the Oktabraskaya in St. Petersburg, the Viña del Mar Festival in Chile, the Baden-Baden Festival in Germany...
His discographic history is impressive, as evidenced by his 326 Gold records, 49 Platinum, and the only Uranium one awarded in the world for sales of more than 50 million copies. He has recorded more than 50 long-playing records in Spanish, as well as others in Italian, French, German, English and Japanese.
