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Massiel
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María de los Ángeles Felisa Santamaría Espinosa (born 2 August 1947), known professionally as Massiel (), is a Spanish pop and protest singer. She won the Eurovision Song Contest 1968 with the song "La, la, la", being the first performer from Spain to ever win the contest.
Film & TV
Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Known for
- Milá Vs Milá — Entrevistada2021
- The A-Z of Eurovision — Self - Contestant (archive footage)2020
- Typical Spanish — Self - Guest2020
- När Franco stal Eurovision — Self2019
- Aute retrato — Herself2019
- Mi casa es la vuestra — Self - Guest2018
- Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez — Self - Interviewee2017
- Cachitos de hierro y cromo — Self (archive footage)2013
- Tu cara me suena — Self - Guest2011
- ¡Qué vienen los Beatles!1995
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Country
- Spain
- Active from
- 1947
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 39,885
- Total plays
- 234,618
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Massiel (real name Maria de los Angeles Santamaria Espinosa) is a Spanish singer. She was born on August 2, 1947 in Madrid but her parents were from Asturias. His father Emilio was a renowned artist manager. Her cuban ballet teacher put María the nickname of Massiel. She made her debut in 1966 with "Di que no", considered as one of the first protest songs in Spain, a genre that would increase its popularity till the end of the Franco's dictatorship. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Massiel"
Key facts
- Musical artist.name
- Massiel
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- Premios Goya 2018 - Massiel (cropped).jpg
- Musical artist.caption
- Massiel in 2018
- Musical artist.background
- solo_singer
- Musical artist.birth_name
- María de los Ángeles Felisa Santamaría Espinosa
- Musical artist.birth_place
- Madrid, Spain
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Place of birth
- Madrid
- Occupation
- singer
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Notable work
- La, la, la
- Participant in
- Eurovision Song Contest 1968
- Genre
- pop music
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- Premios Goya 2018 - Massiel (cropped).jpg
- Voice type
- contralto
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- Commons category
- Massiel
- date of birth
- 1947-08-02
- pseudonym
- Massiel
- competition won
- Eurovision Song Contest 1968
- start of work period
- 1966-00-00
- end of work period
- 2007-00-00
- social media followers
- 40000
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María de los Ángeles Felisa Santamaría Espinosa (born 2 August 1947), known professionally as Massiel (), is a Spanish pop and protest singer. She won the Eurovision Song Contest 1968 with the song "La, la, la", being the first performer from Spain to ever win the contest.
She released her first recordings in 1966. She decided to abandon her music career in 1996, but released another album a year later and a further one in 2007, along with two new editions of 1970s albums.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Massiel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.