Alberto Castilian Night of the capital of Gran Canaria yesterday lost one of their key players. Marichus Martinena Roiz, who owns the pub off the street Utopia Thomas Miller, died Thursday at age 65 at his home in Faro street and she was the main icon of the eighties moved to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Politicians, journalists, writers, poets, painters, ... remember this Cantabrian who created a fun style that became a landmark in the Archipelago. "Utopia was a place where you lived freedom, plurality, culture ... A meeting place has been one of the most important that has been in the city for the past thirty years," noted former Prime Minister yesterday Canary and former mayor of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Jerónimo Saavedra, who showed regret for a woman who made her living a cultural symbol. Marichus came to town a few years before she became famous in the island night. He did it in 1977 with her husband and two young, Pepe and Pedro, who soon after was three with the birth of Anna soon began to try his luck as an entrepreneur in the world of the party. He did it in 1979, during the transition, with her husband and two partners, who created Utopia, a room that years later would become the main point of fun in the city. The goal, she said to this newspaper in 2007, was "moving to Las Palmas Ibiza environment and started to boom." Although this splendor had to wait a few years. He did so in an era of freedom in the country, progressivism, the first victory of Felipe González and the PSOE in a general election. The year was 1982 when Marichus took control of the business and made changes to the decor. So the Utopia "became forefront," explained Fran yesterday Rivero, one of his employees. "The place was famous for music, because that was combined with the international pop country, with all the Madrid scene and the indie who was then playing in England," he added Rivero, who recalled with particular fondness themed parties which were held on Tuesday. "It was a revolution of the night" highlighted Fran Rivero. In that room chaired by Lion MGM, which mimicked a movie set, they played some of the most prominent groups of the Madrid scene, as Burning, or Toreros Muertos The Confederates. The Marichus good job, "it was an excellent public relations," remarks one of his former employees, Pepe Hernandez, known as Pepe the cheese, also made that happen there and the mid-eighties all kinds of national and regional personalities who took advantage of these last, his visit to the island for its fashionable. From the already mentioned Jerónimo Saavedra, through Luz Casal, Angel Nieto, Loquillo, Cabinet Galigari or Accomplices, to Joaquín Sabina, who left numerous memories of passing through the room. For Saavedra, visit the Utopia during his presidency of the Canary Islands supposed "discover great soul singers did not know" as well as "a place of plurality and event, which brought together young people from 20 to 40 years" in the Marichus cornerstone that was thanks to his attention "discreet and respectful." Another recalls with special fondness that the pub is the journalist Juan Cruz, who claimed that there lived an atmosphere "better than the Madrid scene", because by that time "the joy in Las Palmas resembled better nights, poetry, the revelry that revolved around the friendship ". Las Canteras and Utopia were mandatory step when going to Las Palmas ", added Cruz, who stressed that he" was renamed Liverpool Utopia. "All thanks to the work of Marichus Roiz, who was" the alma mater of place " , said Juan Cruz, "a woman of the host" Pepe stressed Cheese; "more stressed businesswoman in the Canaries, very affable and beloved" stated Fran Rivero, "a mother and great grandmother", highlighted Pepe Guerra, one of their children. In the early eighties, Marichus Roiz decided to leave the world of night. since his family went out with his sons Joe, Peter and Anna, and entertaining their granddaughters Anna, 11, and Sara, seven, "to whom loved her dearly," he noted War. In recent years ill, but she always wanted to be with his family. Even got to say goodbye to some of them before saying goodbye. Until yesterday afternoon in his heart was turned off, and with it that of a Utopia and the golden age of the party capital.
Posted on: Sun, 02 Jun 2013 12:47:04 +0000