The Canary Islands woke up sad this Thursday. Gran Canaria comedian Manuel Domingo Vieira, better known as Manolo Vieracomic reference of the archipelago and one of the most beloved personalities of the eight islands, fpassed away on Wednesday February 8 at his home in the La Isleta district of Las Palmas at the age of 73, as reported by our colleagues from La Ser Las Palmas.
Vieira ended his days where he began them, on his beloved island, where he was resting after canceling a show scheduled for last Friday and after last fall he surprised his audience by announcing that at the end of the tour planned for this 2023, The last one and we’re leaving, he would retire from performing after spending forty years on stage.
In addition, with the death of Vieira, the Club Chiste-ra is also closing, a place he himself ran in Gran Canaria and which, according to the comedian he confessed to the press on several occasions, was a ” dream come true” for him from which he gave visibility to canary humor.
And it is that Vieira has won the affection of the public by a show of hands and has become a real point of reference for humor on the islands, which he has achieved based on observation and ingenuity, since his the monologues were based on the graceful capture of the everyday and conveying the essence of canaries in a humorous way.
Vieira went so far as to say that only canaries could understand his sense of humor, however, that of Las Palmas succeeded in conquering a much wider audience. He has performed many times in Madrid, where the Florida Park hall has become his home, and he even toured Miami so that Spanish speakers in the United States could meet Carmelito and Maruca, two of his characters. principals and, without a doubt, they will go down in history with him.
In addition, during his career, Canarian television and RTVE have been able to appreciate his art and, for years, the comedian has participated in different programs, changing for a few hours the tables on the stages for that of the sets of formats such as I pay tonight there Don’t laugh, it’s worse.
Favorite son, his last honor
Manolo Vieira’s work in the field of humor and, above all, in that of identity and construction of the Canarian community, led him to obtain the Gold Medal of the Canary Islands in 2002, to be awarded in 2010 with the Can Silver in Arts from the Cabildo de Gran Canaria and to be named Gran Canaria’s favorite son, a distinction that came to him from the Cabildo de Gran Canaria last Wednesday, February 8just hours before Vieira lost his life.