In the middle of the massive farewell to Carlos Alberto “Indio” Solariwhich brought together hundreds of thousands of people in Avellaneda, Virginia “Viru” Mones Ruiz, widow of the musician, starred in a scene that moved the followers of the former leader of Patricio Rey and his Redonditos de Ricota and the Fundamentalists of Air Conditioning.
The moment occurred in front of the artist’s coffin, installed in the José María Gatica Sports Center. Over there, A fan burst into tears after passing by the coffin and was supported by Mones Ruiz, who hugged her and took her face in his hands..
“Calm down. I’ll give him a kiss.” Indian from you”the widow told him, as heard in a video recorded by one of the people present and broadcast on social networks.
In the images you can see the woman visibly affected by the singer’s death; even held by someone else. According to the same footage, The fan had learned of Solari’s death while attending her mother’s funeral. “Everything that saved me,” said the young woman with her voice broken by desolate crying. “Keep walking, strong. Cry all you want,” Indio’s widow consoled her.
“Viru, you were the best companion he had in his entire life,” other fans took the opportunity to shout at Mones Ruiz, to which she, excited, responded with a “thank you.”
The love story of Indio Solari and Viru
“We met in the summer of 1981.. Years later, when I first heard ‘I stay with you’, by Los Chunguitos, I found the words that described my love. Today, 40 years later, they continue to do it… Happy day to those who have a love to sing to, and to those who don’t, continue preparing for when it arrives,” Virginia wrote on her Instagram account on Valentine’s Day on February 14, 2021, in one of the few public statements by Indio’s wife. The couple married in 1988.
“Virginia was a high school friend of Mufercho’s wife (Sergio Martínez, the first master of ceremonies and monologist of Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota). We crossed paths in La Plata, at my friend Piti’s place.. I had just finished the Alex experience on the coast and returned to La Plata without a penny. I stayed at Piti’s and there I found La Flaca. We hooked up the same day we met“, said the singer in his official autobiography Memories that lie a little (2019), by Editorial Sudamericana, written from his interviews with the journalist Marcelo Figueras.
“With Virginia we spent some time jumping from house to house. Our books and records were being left behind, in compensation for the hospitality. “We were light on things,” he said in his memoirs about the couple’s first years, before the band’s explosion.
“We ended up in a house belonging to La Flaca’s family.fixing a kind of shed that was behind. We painted it with lime, we took everything out, we cleaned…Virginia told her brother to stay for a little while, until she or I could get some tarasca. And the brother tells him: ‘But I’m alone in the house. Why are they going to stay in the shed?’ The thing is that we were acting like pigs with Virginia’s brother, with whom we had a great deal of harmony.. “To think that I almost went to work in an office at that time!” he revealed during his conversations with the journalist.
