Heirs of a long family tradition of circus performance, which stretches back to the nineteenth century, they were sons of Emilio Aragón the elder and nephews of José María and Teodoro Aragón -
Emig, Pompoff y Teddy. Other members of the family with circus connections included their cousins Nabucodonosorcito and Zampabollos. Gaby, Fofó and Miliki began their activities in Spain in 1939 at the
Circo Price. In 1946, the three brothers emigrated across the Atlantic, where they remained for more than a quarter of a century. They first set up shop in
Cuba, where they made their first incursions into the world of television in 1949. In the following years, the diffusion of their shows in other countries in
Latin America made them familiar faces in
Mexico,
Venezuela,
Puerto Rico, and the
United States. Between 1965 and 1971 they moved to Puerto Rico, where they transmitted a daily program called El Show de las 5, one of the most popular and remembered shows in the history of TV in that country. In 1970 they arrived in
Argentina, and achieved great success through their program
El zapato roto (The broken Shoe), which they then renamed
El show de Gaby, Fofó y Miliki. Soon a new member of the family,
Fofito (the son of Fofó), made appearances. Two years later, in 1972, they returned to Spain, contracting with
Televisión Española to front a new program called
El Gran Circo de TVE ("The Great Circus of TVE"). This programme replaced the also well-known
Los Chiripitifláuticos. It was a great success, remaining on air until 1981, and became an enormous cultural phenomenon in Spain in the 1970s. The group was awarded a
TP de Oro, a prestigious Spanish television award, for "most popular personality" in 1974. , at the beginning of his career known as Milikito After the death of Fofó in 1976, the son of Miliki, Emilio Aragón Jr., joined the group under the name
Milikito. He is a mute clown, in the tradition of
Harpo Marx, and communicates with a
cow bell. Much later, after the show ended in 1981,
Rody, the youngest son of Fofó, joined the group in the persona of a
black Cuban. Finally, the program (which in its final form was called
El loco mundo de los payasos, or "The Crazy World of the Clowns"), was retired from Spanish television in 1983. After several circus tours during the following two years, under the title
El fabuloso mundo del circo (The Fabulous World of the Circus), the group (which by this time Miliki had already left) dissolved definitively. ==Songs==