Helena Bianco dies, the voice that sang "it will be wonderful to travel to Mallorca"

PalmaThe singer Helena Bianco, known for being the voice of the group 'Los Mismos' and the voice of the famous song "It will be wonderful to travel to Mallorca" ("Será maravilloso viajar hasta Mallorca") has died this Thursday at 78 years of age due to cancer. This was confirmed by her brother, through a post on social media where he said goodbye to the singer with an emotional message: “Fly high, my life. Rest. I have no idea how to live without you”.

In the post, the brother added a thank you to the medical staff, friends, and family who have accompanied his sister during her illness: "Thanks to the extraordinary doctors and health workers, to the friends, and to this family that we are one. I love you. We love you. We will continue in your fight. Our fight".

Born in Valladolid in 1948 with the name Elena Vázquez Minguela, Helena Bianco achieved great popularity during the sixties and seventies as the lead singer of Los Mismos, a group with which she recorded some of the most remembered hits of Spanish pop from that era. Among them all, however, there is one that left a special mark on Mallorca: El puente.

Released in 1968, the song imagined the construction of a bridge that would connect Valencia and Mallorca, allowing one to reach the island without the need to take a ship or a plane. Its chorus, "It will be wonderful to travel to Mallorca" ("Será maravilloso viajar hasta Mallorca"), became one of the most recognizable melodies of Spanish popular music and an almost inseparable reference to the island's tourist promotion.

With her voice, Bianco provided the soundtrack to the imagination of several generations of Mallorcans and contributed to popularizing one of the most remembered phrases about Mallorca. More than half a century later, that musical invitation to visit the island remains very present in the collective memory.

After the dissolution of Los Mismos in 1980, the singer continued her solo career and maintained her connection to the stage for decades. In 2019, she regained great television popularity upon being declared the winner of the first edition of La Voz Senior, on the Antena 3 program.

The death of Helena Bianco leaves behind a long musical career and a song that, for Mallorca, is already part of the island's sentimental soundtrack.