Music
The ten most famous singers in Spain are:
- Antonio Orozco: Is a Spanish singer and songwriter. He has sold over 1,000,000 copies nationwide, from his first album A Clock and a Candle in the year 2000 to the present. His fondness for composing, singing and playing guitar goes back to when he was 15 years old.
- Camarón:
Spanish gypsy cantaor, considered one of the main figures of flamenco. In 2000, he was awarded posthumously the Golden Key of Cante.
- Joaquín Sabina:
Is a Spanish singer-songwriter, poet and painter; Is one of the most outstanding figures of contemporary Spanish music.
- Miguel Bosé:
Is a Spanish singer and actor. During his career, he has sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, 7 being respected and recognized, both in Spain and Italy, France or Hispano-America as well as as a musician, also as an actor or for its implications in actions, solidarity or Humanitarian.
- Alejandro Sanz: Is a Spanish singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer and musician. He has sold over 25 million copies of their albums worldwide and has won 20 Latin Grammys and three American Grammys. He has also collaborated with several national and international artists, making him one of the most important artists in Spanish history.
- Paco de Lucía: Was a Spanish flamenco composer and guitarist. Recorded his first discs next to his brother Pepe forming part of the set Los Chiquitos de Algeciras. Considered one of the main figures of current flamenco, it is attributed responsibility for the reform that brought this art to the international music scene thanks to the inclusion of new rhythms.
- Malú:
Is a Spanish singer and performer. With more than 2,500,000 albums sold, it has received numerous awards such as the Andalusian Medal for "An entire career" awarded in 2015, the Latin Waves or Grammy Awards. In the year 2014 became the only female artist to get fill the Palace of Sports of Madrid up four times in one tour
- Rocío Durcal: Was a Spanish singer and actress. Considered as the "queen of the rancheras." In 2005, a year before his death, he received the Latin Grammy for Music Excellence.
- Julio Iglesias:
Is a Spanish singer, songwriter, entrepreneur and ex-footballer. He has been awarded with the Guinness Record twice. In 1983 as the artist who has sold more albums in more languages in the world, and in 2013 as the Latin artist who has sold more albums in history
- Mecano: Was a Spanish group of pop music, active between 1981 and 1992. The group was formed by Ana Torroja and the brothers Nacho and José María Cano. Mecano made a pop that evolved from a purely "techno" sound, during its first stage, to the eclecticism of what is considered as the second artistic period
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Flamenco legends :
- Antonio Molina (1928 - 1992)
ANTONIO MOLINA DE HOCES, cantaor and cancionero payo, world-wide known in the art of the flamenco cante with its own artistic name of ANTONIO MOLINA, was born in Malaga the day 9 of March of year of 1928, and died in Madrid the 18 of March of 1992. He was buried in the cemetery of the Almudena of Madrid, where thousands of followers accompanied him in his last farewell. Antonio Molina was from a very poor and humble family, he began to work at the age of ten years to help his family, in various trades, caretaker of herds, milk delivery, etc. He comes to Madrid at the age of fourteen to work and try his luck, in what is well presented, until he is presented in a contest of Radio Spain, being finalist and being hired to act in several companies.
The success came to him in the early fifties, with songs like Soy miner, Caballito bandolero, El Macetero, La estudiantina, Adiós España and Yo quiero ser matador. He also participated in several films, El pescador de coplas, (1953), That voice is a mine (1955), Malagueña (1955), The daughter of Juan Simón (1956), Café de Chinitas (1957), El Cristo de los Faroles (1957)
Antonio Molina appeared in his first debut to become known in the Spanish Theater of Tetuan (Morocco) being Spanish protectorate, back in the fifties and two, where he was very well received. He was for a long time together with Juanito Valderrama forming shows. Molina had a loud and brilliant voice, of which he may have abused until he was prematurely lost, enjoyed great popularity in front of numerous theatrical spectacles. After a few years retired he returns again in 1986. His was a mixture of flamenco cante and Andalusian song interpreted with a voice of prodigious faculties
He was the first to act in bullfights before 10,000 more people.
A statue of the artist, the work of the sculptor Santiago de Santiago, has been presiding since 2002 in a central Malaga square.
·Camarón de la Isla (1950 - 1992)
The last great flamenco innovator signs 'Soy Gitano', the most sold album in the history of the genre. José Monge Cruz knew how to endow flamenco with influences from jazz and rock, opening the way for the next generations of cantaores.
- Lola Flores (1923 - 1995)
Lola Flores, 'La Faraona', has left behind essential songs like A tu vera, Ay pena pena pena pena or La Zarzamora. Her artistic personality, apart from her flamenco heterodoxy, turned her into a 'whirlwind of colors' that left a mark on Spanish musical history.
- Manolo Caracol (1909 - 1973)
Manolo Caracol was part of a long Flemish line that goes back to "El Planeta", one of the first known flamenco singers. Caracol began to make a living singing at private parties, then jump to the movies and stage and form an artistic partner with Lola Flores. This musical legend revolutionized the flamenco accompanying their cantes of an orchestra or of a piano.
- Diego el Cigala
He grew up in the popular Rastro neighborhood in Madrid. Nephew of the flamenco singer Rafael Farina, at age 12 won a television contest and the first prize of the contest Flamenco Joven de Getafe.
In 1991 he participates in the flamenco Mass of Paco Peña and in 1998 publishes Undebel, his first solo album accompanied to the guitars by David Amaya, Tomatito and Paquete. In 2000, Javier Limón produced Entre entre vaareta y canasta, an album that was published with the publicity support of artists such as El Gran Wyoming, Santiago Segura, Pablo Carbonell and Javier Krahe, among others, and in which they participated in the Niño Josele and Vicente Amigo. The video of the album was realized by Fernando Trueba. A year later Corren appears times of joy, also produced by Javier Limón and with Niño Josele at his side, and with exceptional guests like Bebo Valdés and Jerry González. The album was nominated for Best Flamenco Album in the Latin Grammy Awards.
His fourth album is recorded during a live concert at the Teatro Real in Madrid, with the only accompaniment of Niño Josele's guitar and also produced by Javier Limón.
In 2002, Fernando Trueba produces Lágrimas Negras, a record that unites Cigala with Bebo Valdés on piano and published in 2003. The success is international. Diego won a Grammy in 2004, three Music Awards, a Ondas Award, five Amigo Awards, three Platinum Records in Spain and one in Argentina, Mexico and Venezuela. The New York Times praises it as "Best record of the year" in the section of Latin music and Bebo and Diego el Cigala fill the best theaters in the world: Paris, New York, London, Havana, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Mexico DF , Madrid, Barcelona ... By the end of 2004 the album had sold more than 700,000 copies worldwide. After this work came Picasso in my eyes, a tribute to the artist from Malaga.
- Enrique Morente (1942 - 2010)
The sadly disappeared Granadan cantaor was one of the great renovators of flamenco. His talent, concern and search for new forms of expression earned him distinctions such as the Gold Medal for Merit of the Fine Arts, the National Music Award of 1994 or the Gold Medal of the 'Cátedra de Flamencología' of Jerez de la Frontera .
- Juanito Valderrama (1916 - 2004)
Juan Valderrama Blanca, better known as Juanito Valderrama, (May 24, 1916, Torredelcampo, Jaén - April 12, 2004, Espartinas, Seville) was a Spanish flamenco singer.
Born into a family of farmers, Valderrama's professional career began in 1935, at the Cine Metropolitano de Madrid, and lasted more than 60 years. However, he had started in flamenco since childhood, while working in the countryside. After several attempts to escape to pursue his passion, in 1934 he met Dolores Jiménez Alcántara "La Niña de la Puebla", and obtained paternal permission to take the stage. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted in a battalion of the CNT, where along with other artists in a similar situation acts for combatants and war wounded. At the end of the conflict he is already well known for his recordings, which encourages him to lead his own company.
Juanito Valderrama starred in seven films, including "El rey de la carretera" (1956), "El emigrante" (1959), "Gitana" (1965); "Of clay and gold" (1966); "The Girl from the Courtyard" (1966); "Flash 03" (1967) and "The Father Coplillas" (1968). In many of them also participated Dolores Abril. He was awarded the Medal of Merit in Labor and the Medal of Merit of Tourism.
Of its first marriage, of which nullity obtained in 1979, three children were born. Together with Dolores Abril since the second half of the 1950s, Dolores Abril is also a singer with whom she formed an artistic duo for decades, the couple married civilly in 1981. Later, in 1987, they married ecclesiastical. With Abril he has had two children, one of whom is the singer known as Valderrama (Juan Antonio Valderrama Abril).
Almost always the author of his successes, he has acted with most contemporary flamenco figures, and his legacy contains more than 700 recorded performances that he continued to play even though he was octogenarian. Among his most famous songs is "El Emigrante", written in 1949, as a tribute to the millions of Spaniards who left the country for various causes after the Spanish Civil War. As a curiosity, the same Francisco Franco came to ask an encore of this song of how much it moved him, being the only artist to whom Franco made that request. Also emphasize "The first communion" and "Of stoplight". Although he was best known for singing copla, he always claimed to be a flamenco singer. Antonio Burgos would say: "And if we say Doña Concha Piquer, why should not we say Don Juan Valderrama? He obviously has the gift of the word, of the popular voice. Cantautor of Spain to the measure of the hungers of the postwar period ". (Antonio Burgos, ABC, 29-11-1984).
He died on April 12, 2004, at the age of 87 in his house in Espartinas (Seville), as a result of a cardiac arrest, at 5.30 pm.
- La Niña de La Puebla (1908 - 1999)
Dolores Jiménez Alcántara (La Puebla de Cazalla, Seville, July 28, 1908 - Málaga, June 14, 1999), known artistically as La Niña de La Puebla, was one of the greatest flamenco singers and copla Andalusian. Of a barber who is fond of singing, Dolores Jiménez was born in La Puebla de Cazalla (Seville). A poorly composed eye drop made him lose his eyesight forever after three days of being born. At the age of eight he began to receive special and musical instruction. At the age of 20, accompanied by her guitar, she performed at a festival in Morón de la Frontera (Seville). His career was unstoppable. He went from the interpretation of lighter styles, like the Colombian or the fandangos, to other solemn ones, like the seguiriya or the soleá. According to his own declarations he decided to dedicate himself to professional singing when he heard the Niño de Marchena sing. His great triumph came before the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), but it was later when La Niña de la Puebla carried out an almost frenetic artistic activity , On a continuous tour throughout Spain until the seventies, representing each year a different show: Opera flamenca (1947), Passes the couplets (1947), The feel of copla (1950), Bulls and cante (1951), Night of Coplas (1953), Thus sings Andalusia (1954), Herencia de arte (1955), Noche Flamenca (1963), Fantasía Flamenca (1970).
One week after his death he was to receive the Gold Medal for Merit of the Fine Arts. One of her sons stated what was the greatest desire of her mother: to be remembered by the Colombian Serrania of Brazil, who sang along with her husband, also cantaor Luquitas de Marchena. She will always be remembered for the popular flavor that she knew to print to all her interpretations, especially in her version of Los Campanilleros, lighter and more popular than that of Manuel Torre.
La Niña de la Puebla stood out - in addition to its Campanilleros - in tonadillas, fandangos and malagueñas. A cantaora of rhythm and compass, and in their discs there are cantes by soleá, seguiriyas, malagueñas, villancicos, tarantas, granaínas, etc. He has been part of the most important companies of flamenco shows. He lived for many years in Malaga, where he died of a cerebral hemorrhage on June 14, 1999.