Bullfighter Pepe Luis Vázquez Silva from Seville dies on the age of 67 | Culture | EUROtoday

Pepe Luis Vázquez Silva, son of the legendary maestro Pepe Luis Vázquez, has died in Seville on the age of 67 on the household property within the municipality of Carmona, the place he was discovered lifeless for causes which are nonetheless unknown.

Pepe Luis, born in Seville on June 9, 1957, was the nice hope of Seville's creative bullfighting and achieved dazzling fame as a novillero, far above what he would later obtain as a matador. Genetically endowed with distinctive bullfighting qualities, a paradigm of naturalness wearing lights, he made his debut in La Maestranza on August 15, 1979 in a bullfight with little success, which didn’t forestall him from taking part in quite a few blended bullfights that contributed to revaluing his status. He took the choice within the framework of the Seville bullring on April 19, 1981, in what was fairly an occasion in bullfighting on the time, along with his uncle Manolo Vázquez as godfather and Curro Romero as witness.

From then on, nothing was the identical. Pepe Luis, a bullfighter trustworthy to the idea of purity, incapable of betraying himself, solely shone on very particular and spaced-out afternoons. Thus, on May 22, 1985, within the Las Ventas bullring, he gave a lesson in bullfighting in entrance of a Torrealta bull. At that point, Joaquín Vidal wrote in his chronicle that “pure bullfighting is what Pepe Luis Vázquez did yesterday, in an important bullfight with an important bull. It was not a bullfight worthy of an ear, but it was revealing and testimonial, in whose high-school notes he made the canons, depth and flavor of authentic bullfighting flourish.”

And a 12 months earlier, on July 29, 1984, in Las Colombinas de Huelva, he had reduce three ears from two Jandilla bulls, in one other unforgettable demonstration of timeless bullfighting.

But Pepe Luis lacked the ambition to win, maybe, as he himself as soon as admitted, as a result of he didn’t want it, and he was severely punished by the bulls, which had a huge effect on his spirit, in order that his profession was pigeonholed into seasons with few bullfights, at all times nicely positioned and with bulls of ensures and few resounding triumphs. Thus, little by little, his title disappeared from the posters, and on September 8, 2012 he introduced his formal farewell within the Seville bullring of Utrera, along with Morante de la Puebla and the bullfighter José Luis Cañaveral.

He reappeared in 2017 in Illescas on March 11, and on that event he declared to this newspaper that “I will not stop being a bullfighter no matter how old I get, because I think and dream about bullfighting every day; I dream a lot about the bull and my father; sometimes, they are more tragic than glorious, and I don’t know why.” He was later introduced and triumphed in Granada on June 15 of the identical 12 months, and there his profession was placed on maintain till October 12, 2018, when he participated in a pageant at La Maestranza.

Having retired completely from the bullrings, he devoted himself to educating what he knew as a trainer on the Bullfighting School of Seville. At the tip of July 2019 he suffered a stroke on the identical farm the place he died, which left the correct facet of his physique paralyzed. Since then, he has been present process a relentless rehabilitation course of, away from the world of bullfighting, and with very occasional reappearances in some bullfighting occasions in Seville.

A bullfighter has died, belonging to a bullfighting saga par excellence that was began by his great-grandfather, Francisco Vázquez, and continued by José Vázquez, his grandfather, and father of 5 bullfighting brothers, amongst them Pepe Luis Vázquez, the grasp who died in 2013, and to whom his son Pepe Luis at all times remained very shut.