Massiel

The Spanish winner from the 1968 Eurovision Melody Contest, Massiel was created María de los Ángeles Santamaría Espinosa on August 2, 1947, and continued to become perhaps one of the most popular singing stars both in the home and across Latin America. Somewhere else, however, she actually is greatest appreciated for the melody that defeat out that year’s runaway preferred, Cliff Richards’ “Great job.” She’s, in fact, appreciated something of the stop-start profession, originally retiring from present business within the middle-’70s following delivery of her first kid, Aitor. Her come back in 1981, nevertheless, prompted an enormous increase in Mexican music, as she documented the functions of songwriters José María Napoleón and Juan Gabriel on her behalf record Tiemos Dificiles. Her following record, Corazon de Hierro, was a straight bigger strike, and spawned the worldwide strike “Brindaremos por Un.” Massiel announced her second pension in the middle-’90s, although she continued to be energetic for at least a few more years. The entire year 1997 brought both a hip-hop re-recording of her Eurovision victor “La La La” along with a Spanish-language tribute towards the music of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, Baladas y Canciones de Bertolt Brecht, while 1998 noticed her both superstar in and record the soundtrack towards the film Cantando a la Vida, the storyplot of the Eurovision Melody Contest champion who mysteriously disappears. Massiel herself would reappear on stage in 2007, among the judges for this year’s Spanish entrance to Eurovision. Although she had not been participating in your competition itself, she decided to perform among the entries, “Busco el Hombre.”