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Karina (Spanish Singer)
María Isabel Llaudes Santiago (born 4 December 1945), better known by her stage name Karina, is a Spanish singer who had her biggest success in the late 1960s until the mid-1970s. She was born in Jaén, Andalusia to Trinidad Santiago and Salvador Llaudes. Career After working in television for some years, she recorded her first album in 1964, which was especially successful in Venezuela. She became known to the Spanish audience in 1965 with a hit version of France Gall's "Poupée de cire, poupée de son". She also recorded a contemporary Spanish r Portuguese?version of the James Bond song Goldfinger. In 1966, she was awarded the Best Yé-yé Singer Prize. One of her films she starred in was "Los Chicos del Preu" (The College Kids) (1967). Her songs, like "Romeo y Julieta", "Las flechas del amor", "El baúl de los recuerdos", and "La fiesta" became hits in Spain. She represented Spain at the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest with the song " En un mundo nuevo", where she placed s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaén, Spain
Jaén () is the urban capital city of the province of Jaén, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. The city of Jaén is the administrative and industrial centre for the province. Industrial establishments in the city include chemical works, tanneries, distilleries, cookie factories, textile factories, as well as agricultural and olive oil processing machinery industry. The layout of Jaén is determined by its position in the hills of the Santa Catalina mountains, with steep, narrow streets, in the historical central city district. Its population is 112,757 (2020), about one-sixth of the population of the province. Recently Jaén has had a great increase in cultural tourism, having received 604,523 tourists along the year 2015, 10% more than in 2014. The city is also known as the ''World Capital of Olive Oil'', because it is the biggest producer of the oil, known by locals as ''liquid gold''. Etymology The name is most likely derived from the Roman name ''Villa G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julio Iglesias
Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva (; born 23 September 1943) is a Spanish singer, songwriter and former professional footballer. Iglesias is recognized as the most commercially successful Spanish singer in the world and one of the top record sellers in music history, having sold more than 100 million records worldwide in 14 languages. It is estimated that during his career he has performed in more than 5000 concerts, for over 60 million people in five continents. In April 2013, Iglesias was inducted into the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 1983, Iglesias was celebrated as having recorded songs in the most languages in the world, and in 2013 for being the artist in Latin music with the most records sold in history. In April 2013 in Beijing, he was honoured as the most popular international artist in China. In Brazil, France, Italy and elsewhere, Iglesias is the most successful foreign record seller, while in his home country, Spain, he has sold the most records in history, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eurovision Song Contest Entrants For Spain
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Spanish Women Singers
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People From Jaén, Spain
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Living People
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1945 Births
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Jaime Morey
Jaime García Morey (16 June 1942 – 7 July 2015) better known as Jaime Morey was a Spanish singer from Alicante, best known for representing Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 1972 The Eurovision Song Contest 1972 was the 17th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Edinburgh, United Kingdom and was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster British Broadcasting Corporat ... in Edinburgh with the song " Amanece". He finished 10th in a field of 18. References SourcesOfficial website 1942 births 2015 deaths People from Alicante Singers from the Valencian Community Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Spain Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1972 Place of death missing 20th-century Spanish musicians 20th-century Spanish male singers 20th-century Spanish singers {{Spain-singer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spain In The Eurovision Song Contest
Spain has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 61 times since making its debut in , where they finished ninth. Since , Spain has been one of the " Big Five" countries, along with , , and the , that are automatically prequalified for the final each year as they are the biggest financial contributors to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Spain has competed in the contest continuously since the country's debut in 1961. The only country with a longer run of uninterrupted Eurovision appearances is the United Kingdom, ever-present since 1959. Spain has won the contest twice, first in with the song "La, la, la" sung by Massiel and again in , when Salomé's "Vivo cantando" was involved in a four-way tie with , the and the . The 1969 contest in Madrid is the only time Spain has hosted the event, since lots were drawn after 1969's four-way tie and the contest was hosted by the Netherlands. Other good results in the 20th century were four second places with Karina in , Moce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwendolyne
"Gwendolyne" (), sometimes spelt "Gwendoline", is a song composed and recorded by Spanish singer Julio Iglesias, co-written by Leo Johns. It is best known as the entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1970, held in Amsterdam. The single was also one of the final records to be issued in the by then obsolete 78 RPM format, only being released in that format in Columbia. Background The song is a ballad, with both music and lyrics co-written by Iglesias himself, written about his first girlfriend, the titular Gwendolyne, a French girl whom he met at the age of 20 while still a law student and a goalkeeper for Spanish football team Real Madrid Castilla. In 1963, Iglesias was involved in a near-fatal car accident, which ended his football career, left him in rehabilitation for considerable time and indirectly led him to start learning the guitar, as a means of physical therapy. Iglesias began composing his own music; in 1968 he entered and won the Benidorm International Song Festiva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Yé-yé Singers
The following is a list of yé-yé singers, a genre of pop music and associated youth culture that originated in the early 1960s in France and spread to other countries like Spain, Portugal and Italy. A female-fronted phenomenon, yé-yé singers were mostly teenage girls that sung flirty love songs. Nevertheless, almost all of the songwriters were male, as were the heads in the music industry and the specialized press. A * Adele * Adriángela * Audrey B * Ana Belén * Betina * Jane Birkin * Brigitte Bardot C * Camille * Céline * Cléo * ClothildeDeluxe, 2013. pp. 123 * Albertina Cortés * Cosette D * Dani * Catherine DesmaretsDeluxe, 2013. pp. 152 * Rocío Dúrcal E * Élizabeth * Elsa * Evy G * Serge Gainsbourg * France Gall * Gelu * Géraldine * Chantal Goya Chantal de Guerre (; born 10 June 1942), known as Chantal Goya (), is a French singer and actress. Goya started her career as a ''yé-yé'' girl, singing a catchy mid-1960s hybrid of girl-group pop and French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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