Thursday, February 26, 2015

La Niña de la Puebla

 Her real name was Dolores Jimenez Alcantara. She was a flamenco singer and actress, too. She was born in Seville in the 28th of July of 1908 and she died in Malaga in the 14th of June of 1999. She had an especial characteristic: she was blind. She started her career at eigth years old, when she started studying music.

Her first concert was at the age of 20 and then she grow up.
Then the civil war started but this didn't stop her so she made tours around Spain.
She was married with Luquitas de Marchena and they had two children: Adelfa Soto and Pepe Soto.

When she was doing her last concert it ended fastly because she was ill, and after the concert she died.

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