Celebrity Biographies
FALETE: HIS AGE, HIS CURRENT PARTNER, HIS REAL NAME AND HIS FAMOUS FATHER
Rafael Ojeda Rojas, that is his real name, was born in the city of Seville on January 9, 1978. His father was the well-known singer Falín, a member of the Cantores de Híspalis group. His early death marked his son from a young age, who already stood out as a great artist.
The death of his father at just 48 years old made him be raised by the women of his family and at first he trained to dedicate himself to the world of hairdressing, but art won the game and he decided to dedicate himself to singing. His true vocation led him to go to Japan to live before becoming known.
One of the artist’s secrets is that he suffers from a disability. The brachial palsy that he suffers, he assures that it was caused in childbirth at birth. “I weighed almost six kilos, my mother, who was only 15, gained 45. They pulled me out by pulling my arm,” he told Diez Minutos magazine.
Falete stood out in the 90s as one of the great promises of flamenco and copla, although his definitive leap into the recording world came thanks to the support of friends such as Jesús Quintero, Bambino, Rocío Jurado, José Antonio Labordeta or Paco Ibáñez.
In addition to music, the artist is a regular guest on television shows, having left great moments in his participations. He has participated in ‘Your face sounds familiar to me’, ‘Splash, celebrities in the water’; ‘El Legado’, on Canal Sur and on ‘Famosos al volante’, on La Sexta, a program in which he obtained his driver’s license. In addition, he also made a small cameo in Torrente 5.
STORMY PERSONAL LIFE
His talent in the world of music caused him to become the target of the gossip press, especially because of his friendship with the singer Isabel Pantoja. He can boast of being one of the last to have been able to sing with Rocío Jurado just a few weeks before her death.
But if Falete had something to talk about, it was because of her boyfriend Isaac. They got engaged, but everything was blown up when he faked her own kidnapping, becoming a real scandal in 2008.
THE CURRENT COUPLE OF FALETE
After this disappointment, the artist decided that he would not share anything else about his personal life, a maxim that he has fulfilled to the letter. In 2014, to everyone’s surprise, she married a Puerto Rican musician about whom little is known. They barely share photos on social networks and avoid details of him in the interviews she grants.