Lola Flores

María Dolores "Lola" Flores Ruiz (21 Januar 1923 – 16 Mey 1995) wis a Spainyie sangster, dancer, an actress.

Lola Flores
Background information
Birth name	María de los Dolores Flores Ruiz
Forby kent as	La Faraona
Born	21 Januar 1923 Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
Deid	16 Mey 1995(1995-05-16) (aged 72) Alcobendas, Spain
Genres	Andalusie fowklear
Thrift	Sangster
Instruments	Voice, castanets
Years active	1939–1994

This name uises Spaingie namin customs; the first or paternal faimily name is Flores an the seicont or maternal faimily name is Ruiz.

Profeesional career

Flores wis born in Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz (Andalusie, Spain) who is a icon o Andalusie fowklear an Gitano cultur. Lola Flores wis no a gypsy hersel an niver sel-identifee'd as such, awtho she did acknawledge in ane interview that she haed been tauld that her maternal grandfaither wis o Romani extraction. She became a famous dancer an sangster o Andalusie fowklsar at a vera young age, performin flamenco, copla or chotis an featurin in films frae 1939 tae 1987. Her greatest success wis in fowklear shows wi Manolo Caracol, who was her airtistic pairtner till 1951.

Personal life

In 1958, she marriet Antonio González el Pescaílla, a guitarist frae Cataluña Spain who wis gypsy. She haed three childer: Dolores (sangster an actress Lolita Flores); rock muisicker, sangster an actor Antonio Flores; an sangster an actress Rosario Flores.

Lola Flores dee'd o breast cancer in 1995, agit 72, an wis buriet in the Cementerio de la Almudena in Madrid. Shortly efter her daith, her distraucht 33-year-auld son, Antonio Flores, committit suicide bi owerdosin wi barbiturate an wis buriet near her.

In 2007, the biografie Lola, la película was made. The movie describes her early life, stairtin in 1931 till 1958.