Pastora Soler (Coria del Río

Coria del Río

Coria del Río is a small town near Seville, on the shores of Guadalquivir river.It is popularly known because there are some descendants of the first-ever Japanese official envoy to Spain. In early 17th century, Daimyo Date Masamune of Sendai sent a delegation led by Hasekura Tsunenaga to Europe....

 Sevilla, September 27, 1978) is an Spanish

Spain

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 singer.

A precocious chanteuse, she started singing coplas

Copla (music)

The copla or copla andaluza is a form of Spanish popular song, deriving from the poetic form of the same name. The genre arose in the 1940s, and is epitomized by songwriters Antonio Quintero, Rafael de León and Manuel Quiroga.One of the first singers of coplas was Raquel Meller...

 and flamenco

Flamenco

Flamenco is a genre of music and dance which has its foundation in Andalusian music and dance and in whose evolution Andalusian Gypsies played an important part....

 songs at several events when she was a child. She has made versions of classical songs by León or Quiroga

Manuel Quiroga

Manuel López-Quiroga Miquel better known as Maestro Quiroga, was a pianist, composer and author of couplets and coplas, one of the authors Quintero, León and Quiroga....

 and worked with musicians like Carlos Jean

Carlos Jean

Carlos Jean Arriaga is a Spanish DJ and record producer. He is the co-founder of the group Najwajean, and has been a producer for some of the most important Spanish and Latin-American artists of the 2000s, earning seven Latin Grammy nominations.-1973-1998: Early life:He was born on February 15,...

. She is also a songwriter and her compositions usually mix copla or flamenco with electronic music

Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

 or pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

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Discography

• El mundo que soñé, 1992
• Nuestras coplas, 1994
• Fuente de luna, 1999
• Corazón congelado, 2001
• Deseo, 2002
• Pastora Soler, 2005
• Sus grandes éxitos, 2005
• Toda mi verdad, 2007
• Bendita locura, 2009
• 15 Años, 2010
• Una mujer como yo, 2011

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