José Ortega Cano

José Ortega Cano
Born	December 27, 1953 (1953-12-27) (age 57) Cartagena, Spain

José Ortega Cano (born December 27, 1953) is a Spanish bullfighter. He was married to Spanish singer Rocío Jurado.^[1] They adopted two Colombian children, one boy one girl.^[2]

He started with his bullfighting career in 1973 in Madrid. In 1986 he was very successful in many bullrings. He married in 1995 with the famous singer Rocío Jurado. He retired in 1998, but he put again the traje de luces in 2001, although with less success. In 2004 he retired again to take care of his wife Rocío Jurado, who had pancreatic cancer. Rocío died in 2006 and Ortega Cano did one more work in 2007 in Olivenza.

He participated on a weekly TV program called Mira quién baila (Spanish version of Dancing with the Stars), where he showed no talent for dancing.

On May 29, 2011 he was involved in a car accident in which another driver died and was in critical condition.^[3]until July 11, 2011 when he left the hospital after a slow recovery.

References

1. ^ "Últimas noticias y biografía de Ortega Cano". hola.com. http://www.hola.com/biografias/jose-ortega-cano/biografia/. Retrieved 4 July 2010. 
2. ^ http://www.abc.es/informacion/rocio_jurado/familia/index.asp
3. ^ El mundo.es El torero José Ortega Cano en estado crítico

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Name	Ortega Cano, Jose
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Date of birth	1953-12-27
Place of birth	Cartagena, Spain
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