February 15, 2023, 5:30 PM
February 15, 2023, 5:30 PM
Raquel Welch was born in Chicago. She has an American mother, Josephine Sarah Hall, of English origin, and bolivian father, Armando Carlos Tejada Urquizo, managed to open a space in Hollywood and shine with its own light.
His father was an aeronautical engineer, his name was Armando Carlos Tejada Urquizo.
It is due to her paternal family that the actress was related to the one who was the first Bolivian President Lidia Gueiler Tejada.
However, Raquel took the last name Welch from her first husband (whom she married in 1959, at the age of 19) and kept it as her stage name despite their divorce six years later.
In her youth Rachel yesHe moved with his family to San Diego, and studied acting and modeling. She worked as a presenter for a TV space and as an advertising model.
“I think that when you have Anglo and Latino ancestry, your Hispanic side prevails. It has to do with your temperament and your essence,” said the artist of Bolivian descent. “I think I was more sensual than many of the girls in my school. I don’t think I had anything special, but I could see that I had some things in my chromosomes, I could clearly see my father’s blood”, he maintained in 2015, when he received an award for artistic career from the National Association of Independent Latino Producers (NALIP, for its acronym in English).
In another interview he commented that He did not learn to speak Spanish because his father did not speak his native language at home.
“He wanted to protect us from some of the inconveniences and, according to him, prejudices against people who speak with an accent,” he said. “I really wish he had spoken Spanish at home, because that would be natural for me”.
Welch said she has no regrets in her career, during which she fought her way out of roles that exploited her image.
Today the art world mourns his departure, his agent has not given further details, it is only known that an illness overtook him.
