Eva Amaral and Juan Aguirre dedicated two songs to Maricarmen Abascal, who died aged 87 after 14 days in a Madrid hospital. Her eviction has become a national symbol of housing pain.
On 23 September 2026, Maricarmen Abascal was evicted from the Madrid flat where she had lived for around 70 to 71 years.
Eva Amaral and Juan Aguirre later shared two songs for the 87-year-old woman. Their tribute carried grief and anger after Maricarmen was taken to hospital and died on 7 October.
The message accompanying the performances was direct: «Dolor y rabia. Descanse en paz, Maricarmen». It answered the human cost of removing an elderly woman from the home where she had spent most of her life.
Even from hospital, Maricarmen addressed the activists supporting her with a message that became part of the case’s public memory: «Fight, defend what is yours».
Amaral chose an acoustic version of 'En el centro de un tornado'. The song appears on the band's latest album 'Dolce vita'. Her voice was visibly shaped by emotion as she sang: «Y sólo quiero un momento de paz, que el mundo se detenga. Antes de que yo desaparezca».
The second song was also shared by Amaral, although the available account does not identify its title or provide its lyrics. Together, the performances turned music into a public memorial for an elderly woman whose housing ordeal ended with her death.
The tribute appeared after the case had already become a national housing-rights campaign. RTVE reported that Maricarmen became a symbol of the fight against evictions and for stronger protection of tenants, with the Sindicato de Inquilinas and other activists supporting her story.
Maricarmen was taken to the Gregorio Marañón Hospital after the eviction and died on 7 October at the age of 87, following 14 days in hospital. Reports from COPE and other Spanish outlets confirm that sequence. Her medical cause of death has not been publicly disclosed, so the eviction cannot be described as its direct medical cause.
The case involved the loss of a lifelong home. Hospitalisation followed, then death, but public evidence does not establish a direct causal link between those events.
An earlier account described the eviction and the public impact of Maricarmen's death. Amaral's intervention added a cultural response to the mourning, without changing the known facts of the case.
The eviction formed part of a prolonged housing dispute involving Urbagestión, which several reports describe as a fund that acquired the property. Available reporting does not fully set out the legal basis for the eviction or the owner's position. No independent official court document is available in the material reviewed. Reports say Maricarmen did not return to the flat, although an agreement with the owner was discussed later.
Amaral's choice keeps attention on the person behind the housing conflict. Eva Amaral and Juan Aguirre offered two songs and a sentence joining sorrow with rage. The tenants' union and activists had already pushed Maricarmen's story into national media coverage.
The performances gave the case a human register beyond the eviction record. The available reporting does not publicly disclose Maricarmen Abascal's medical cause of death.
