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María Jiménez Gallego (born 1951, Triana, Seville) is a popular Spanish singer, who started her career in tablaos (flamenco taverns like Las Brujas sponsored by La Pipa in the first years of Spanish democracy after Francisco Franco's dictatorship.[1]
She released her first album in 1976, with arrengemnets by Paco Cepero. The album included rumbas, tangos, bulerías, boleros, rancheras and ballads by Silvio Rodríguez, Lolita de la Colina 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.
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 and participated in the 2002 'Day Without Music' protest.[2]
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.
Contents
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
Filmography
- Yo, puta, 2003
- Los managers, 2006
References
- ^ "MARÍA JIMÉNEZ -CANCIÓN ESPAÑOLA - El Arte de Vivir el Flamenco" (in Spanish). elartedevivirelflamenco.com. http://www.elartedevivirelflamenco.com/cancionespanola29.html. Retrieved 13 August 2010.
- ^ LLewellyn, Howell (29 June 2002). "Protest 'day' turns into hours or minutes". Billboard. p. 55. http://books.google.com/books?id=Yg8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA55&dq=Maria+Jimenez&as_pt=MAGAZINES&cd=10#v=onepage&q=Maria%20Jimenez&f=false. Retrieved 29 May 2010.
External links
Categories:- 1950 births
- Living people
- People from Seville
- Spanish female singers
- Spanish singer stubs
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