Emilio Aragón

Emilio Aragón comes from one of the most cherished artistic families in Spain that have travelled their art throughout Europe, Latin America and the U.S. for several generations. Gabriel, Emilio's great-grandfather, was a young seminarian pertaining to the bourgeoisie in the Granada of the XIX century. Just when he's about to become a priest, he hangs his cloth for love. Virginia Foureaux, a magnificent ecuyere, daughter of the owner of the "Grand Cirque Foureaux" is the responsible for such a drastic turn in his life. Gabriel was hired by the circus and travels half the world to be with the love of his life. But the young acrobatic-horsewoman did not make it any easy for him, after various times of asking her in marriage she confessed: "I will only marry the most famous clown in Europe"...and Gabriel decided to do just that. This is how he became the famous Gran Pepino, creating a new trend in clown history. Clown and ecuyere got married and had 15 children. Here is where the saga of