Raquel del Rosario

Biography

Raquel is the second of six children. At the age of 14, she started writing the first of many songs. Raquel, a self-taught musician, was 17 when she met David Feito from Asturias, who headed a Celtic-based music group.

In 2000, Raquel left her native Gran Canaria for Asturias with David and joined his group, Xema, finally to see their first album released. Soon after Raquel and David met Juan Luis Suarez, and the three created El Sueno de Morfeo. Raquel del Rosario is the vocalist of this Spanish band, and she has written and composed most of their songs with the help of David and Juan.

In 2011, she competed together with Luca Barbarossa in the 2011 Sanremo Music Festival, where they finished in 8th place with the song "Fino in fondo". Then she took part in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmo, Sweden, with her band El Sueno De Morfeo and the song "Contigo hasta el final" (With You Until The End), representing Spain. They finished in 25th place in the final, second-to-last.

Personal life

On 17 November 2006, she married Formula One racing driver Fernando Alonso. They lived in Oxford, England until they moved to Mont-sur-Rolle, near Lake Geneva, Switzerland in 2006. In February 2010 they moved to Lugano, Switzerland in order to be closer to his new Formula One employer Ferrari. On 20 December 2011 the couple announced their divorce to the press. In 2013, Raquel married Pedro Castro, a Galician photographer and film maker. He first met her while directing the video for her band's song "Si no estas". In 2014, she gave birth to their first child, Leo.