María Jiménez Gallego is a popular Spanish

Spain

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 singer, who started her career in tablaos (flamenco

Flamenco

Flamenco is a genre of music and dance which has its foundation in Andalusian music and dance and in whose evolution Andalusian Gypsies played an important part....

 taverns like Las Brujas sponsored by La Pipa in the first years of Spanish democracy

Democracy

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 after Francisco Franco

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's dictatorship.

She released her first album in 1976, with arrengemnets by Paco Cepero

Paco Cepero

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. The album included rumbas, tangos

Tango music

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, bulería

Bulería

Bulería is the second CD released by David Bisbal, following Corazón Latino. It is primarily dance music, containing both slow and fast pieces. Two of the songs on the album were co-written by Bisbal...

s, bolero

Bolero

Bolero is a form of slow-tempo Latin music and its associated dance and song. There are Spanish and Cuban forms which are both significant and which have separate origins.The term is also used for some art music...

s, ranchera

Ranchera

Ranchera is a genre of the traditional music of Mexico originally sung by only one performer with a guitar. It dates to the years of the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century. It later became closely associated with the mariachi groups which evolved in Jalisco. Ranchera today is also played...

s and ballads by Silvio Rodríguez

Silvio Rodríguez

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, Lolita de la Colina

Lolita de la Colina

Lolita De La Colina is a popular singer and songwriter from the 70's based in Mexico. She has written songs for Manoella Torres, Lupita D'Alessio, Sophy, José José, José Luis Rodríguez "El Puma", Daniela Romo, Arianna, Stephanie Salas Raphael, Moncho,Manolo Munoz,Vicky Carr,Trigo limpio,Ana...

 or Amancio Prada. Next, she released Sensación and several compilations. Her career was relaunched when she collaborated in the song La lista de la compra with the group La cabra mecánica and released Donde más duele with songs by Joaquín Sabina

Joaquín Sabina

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.

She was married to the actor Pepe Sancho and they had a son, Alejandro. She had had another child, María del Rocío in a previous marriage, who later died in a traffic accident. She is outspoken on the issue of piracy

Copyright infringement

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 and participated in the 2002 'Day Without Music' protest.

She has edited her biography and taken part in several films and sitcoms like Todos los hombres sois iguales. She's currently the presenter of the TV program Bienaventurados, in Canal Sur

Canal Sur

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.

Partial discography

• Bienaventurados
• Genio y figura 2005
• Canta Jose Alfredo Jimenez
• De María a María con sus dolores 2003
• Donde más duele - Canta por Sabina 2002
• 40 grandes canciones, 2000 recopilación
• Canciones arrebatadas recopilación 1976-1980
• Hablame En la cama - Lo mejor
• Eres como eres
• Alma Salvaje
• Rocios
• Sensación
• Seguir viviendo
• Voy a darte una cancion
• De Distinto Modo
• Frente al amor
• Por primera vez
• Resurreccion de la alegria
• Se acabo
• Maria Jimenez

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