The day Raúl Velasco canceled Ricardo Montaner from ‘Always on Sunday’ because of his way of dressing

Ricardo Montaner He is one of the most loved singer-songwriters by Latin listeners, thanks to his romantic songs, voice and charisma, but these qualities were not enough to impress a powerful Mexican television producer and presenter who judged him by his shoes.

The author of “So in love” or “I’m going to miss you” told Yordi Rosado that since his childhood and due to the economic precariousness with which he grew up, rubber or tennis shoes were always part of his clothing. “I had some beige shoes that I had to take ‘full’ care of. First I walked to school every day and came walking. Over the months, my mom bought me other shoes just like these, so I had some that I kept clean ones that were the ones I wore on the weekends and they were the same, and the ones I used to go to school every day and they were deteriorating little by little,” he told the interviewer.

The Montaner clan: Mauricio Montaner and Ricky Montaner from Mau y Ricky, Ricardo Montaner, Evaluna Montaner, and Camilo during a rehearsal for the 33rd Lo Nuestro Awards for Latin Music in February 2021.

For Montaner, having those two pairs of shoes with specific uses never bothered him because “they weren’t expensive, but they were like ‘cool'”; the simple style made him feel comfortable, until he met the Mexican presenter Raul Velasco towards the end of the 1980s. “I got to my first ‘Siempre en Domingo’ of four (because they were going to be consecutive); he had seen me sing in Miss Venezuela and invited me to come to Mexico,” he said. From that day, he remembered that He wore jeans and tennis shoes, “he (Raúl Velasco) thought that I still hadn’t changed to sing, introduces me ‘from Venezuela we have a person who promises a lot’ and Mexico has to meet him’. When I go out, he sees me in the same clothes he saw me in backstage.”

After his debut on the music show and thinking that everything had been a success, the cloud slump was given to him by his press team. “They canceled the other three Sundays. You can’t come, because you were very poorly dressed and to top it off, you sat on the floor”, they explained. The interpreter, he said, sat on a step to sing a song, but those simple acts, it seems, were serious offenses against Velasco.

Without counting on the support and exposure that television would give him, Ricardo Montaner and his then Melody label decided to opt for another plan. “It gave me a barbaric slump, but at the same time it gave me a barbaric push. The director of the company said ‘you are going to go with these two guys to promote’. They had a Volkswagen and we went on the road (…) to tour all of Mexico with my ‘So Enamored’ under my arm, with my tennis shoes; it took me almost three months”. The same director assured him that the trip would consecrate him in the country and he would return as a star before the presenter. “(Months later) Raúl’s office phone rang so he could come back.”

On his return to ‘ Siempre en Domingo ‘, Velasco recognized his titanic work of touring the country by car, as well as the best seller, “I want to present it as it deserves, in prime time.” At the time, the singer told Rosado, the presenter would have confessed that the Spaniard Julio Iglesias also influenced Velasco’s change of opinion, considering him one of the best balladeers of the time. “From then on, the old man and I became close friends.”

Montaner became a regular guest on the program and during a presentation, the production asked the Venezuelan singer to participate in a tribute to Velasco prior to a scheduled transplant in the United States. “He was sitting, very emaciated, you could see that he was affected and his favorite song of mine was ‘En la Cumbre del Cielo’. I told him that I was going to sing it to him for the last time in my life and that I was not going to sing it again until to know that it was recovered. I never sang it again”.

Two years later, Montaner said, he was in Viña del Mar (Chile) and before going on stage, he received a handwritten fax from the Mexican producer. “Dear Ricardo, here I am with my wife, awaiting your presentation tonight, fully recovered, asking you to please sing ‘En la Cumbre del Cielo’ again because your audience deserves it. That night, from Viña de Mar, I I dedicated the song celebrating that I was healthy”.

The Montaner clan with Evaluna and Camilo

Camilo and Evaluna are one of the most beloved and famous couplesbut perhaps that union would not have flourished without the help of the same father-in-law and father, Ricardo Montaner.

According to the interpreter of ‘Bésame’, his daughter Evaluna suggested listening to the demo of a young man with whom he only talked through social networks. He agreed and fell in love with Camilo’s talent and ‘Corazón de tin’, a song that he had dedicated to his daughter.

The virtual couple (she was in the United States; he, in Colombia) took advantage of Montaner’s trip to Bogotá to meet; Montaner to see the possibility of working with the aspiring musician; her daughter, to have her first physical date with the one she would later become her husband.

“Camilo was waiting at the airport. That night we had dinner together and I started talking to him, I liked him extraordinarily. (Since they weren’t a couple), the next morning Eva told me that they were already dating. Weeks later, a birthday came from Eva or something like that, she stayed a couple of weeks and when she was on her way back, I said ‘what do you have to do in Bogotá?’ He taught martial arts classes or something. ‘Stay here, we make demos, we work on your things’… He stayed two years”.

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The day Raúl Velasco canceled Ricardo Montaner from ‘Always on Sunday’ because of his way of dressing