), is a Spanish singer. She came to fame in 2001 as part of the reality show "Operación Triunfo

Operación Triunfo

Operación Triunfo is a reality-show talent contest which first aired on Spain's TVE network in 2001. A kind of cross between Pop Idol, Voces en Función, Star Search, and Big Brother, the show aimed to find the country's next solo singing sensation, putting a selection of hopefuls through their...

", she represented Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002

Eurovision Song Contest 2002

The Eurovision Song Contest 2002 was the 47th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place on 25 May 2002 at the Saku Suurhall Arena in Tallinn, Estonia....

. She has subsequently released five studio albums, an album on DVD and ten singles.

She has been awarded several times throughout her musical career. These include Cadena Dial 2003 for the "best artists of the year" and Antena de Oro 2006.

Background

Rosa Maria Lopez Cortés was born in Peñuelas, Láchar

Láchar

Láchar is a municipality in the province of Granada, in Spain. The village of Láchar lies in Granada's floodplain amid poplar forests and fertile orchards...

 (Granada) on 14 January 1981 to Eduardo Lopez and Francisca Cortés. She was raised in the town of Peñuelas with her parents and her three brothers.

Rosa started singing at weddings, baptisms, communions and celebrations for the people of Granada home over the weekend with her younger brother at the piano and her father. She was a member of several orchestras, and later created the Trio Roxa.

In September Rosa went to the casting of a new Reality show on 22 October 2001 at age 20 was one of the 16 contestants of the first edition of Operación Triunfo. The prize of the competition was to become the Spanish representative for the Eurovision Song Contest 2002

Eurovision Song Contest 2002

The Eurovision Song Contest 2002 was the 47th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place on 25 May 2002 at the Saku Suurhall Arena in Tallinn, Estonia....

. Soon titled "The Rose of Spain", she won the competition on 11 February 2002 with 26.6% of the votes, beating with a record audience of 10,680,000 viewers and 58.8% share.

From April 4 to June 1, 2002, 16 participants from OT offered a tour in Spain, toured 27 cities in Spain with 600,000 tickets sold, followed two days filling the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona and the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid. [ 13] TVE-1 issued on Sunday June 2, 2002 concert Bernabeu stadium, becoming the most watched broadcast concert in Spain, with 5,136,000 million viewers and 39.5% share. The repetition of this summer concert in the July 9, resulting in 3,174,000 million and 27.9% Share.

2002-2005: Record beginning and The First successes

Once output as Operation Triunfo winner on February 11, 2002, then began her musical career by signing a 3 album record deal with Sony BMG Music, RCA Records and Vale Music. Several spot as' All fire 'from the Ministry of the Environment (Together with their colleagues in ot) and' New World Jewels' the latter with a contract of 2 years. With just over 21 years on April 25 released their debut namesake Rosa, comprising songs from Pop Latino style by great composers such as Armando Manzanero, Inma Serrano and José Luis Perales, got a great success achieved in a number listings sales selling over 500,000 copies in Spain, her first single, "Europe's Living a Celebration" reached first place in the Top 40. Eurovision Song Contest was to be the 7th position, then in the summer made an extensive tour throughout the country. Half tour started having problems with her voice but continued working until mid-September could not be more and had to cancel the rest of the tour, she spent a year out of public life and because of the speculation had to do a press conference where she denied false comments and explained that she would soon return to the stage.

On October 29, 2003 is now published. Cutting an album Dance-Pop where she began driving a new image and musical style. The disc tube a great success and exceeded projected sales reaching number one twice in the lists of sales, its first single "the essence of your voice" reached number one in the Top 40. During April to September 2004 conducted a promotional tour of the album Now, Universal Music Group in June with 15 days the singer traveled to Venezuela to promote the second album to the media. A few weeks later used to image the brand of computers' Odin computer. On November 16 she released her third album, I hope, which was intended to make a small gift to her fans by singing Christmas songs and great new songs written for the occasion, Lopez did not tour as a Christmas album. Throughout the year 2005 the singer decided to do a sabbatical unpublished album made small appearances in television and made a short tour with the band Blues Band de Granada touring major cities in the autonomous community of Andalusia.

The singer and Granada Blues Band recorded two models, one of which became the BSO of the movie "Looking for Emma". A few months later, she recorded the BSO of the movie "Torrente 3: El Protector." Christmas DVD Pink released her first single released in concert with a record company Vale Music concert recorded at the end of September 2004 in the auditorium of the city of Barcelona.

2006-2009: Musical transition and personal Evolution

Rosa Lopez undertook a new stage as a professional staff, with 40 kilos less, a modern image, more mature and better expressions of the public. In early 2006 she participated in the program of 'Mira quién baila' which was proclaimed winner. On May 30 launched I feel alive again with Dance-Pop sounds to represent a major change from the album Now, very international, mixed by two of the sound engineers the world's major Ankelius Martin and Dan Hetzel, who worked with large international divas of music. End of June has started the tour I am alive to lead the 2006 tour until October, shortly after the start of the tour, signed a contract for several years for a promotional picture of the products' XLS '. In early December, introduced TVE Spanish Television Anniversary of'50 'where Rose gave a tribute to the biggest' Rocío Jurado ', singing the song "like a wave," at the end of that month and in the same television network a special gala was held to select the best album of 2006 15 Records 15 singers, the audience, with their calls, I chose to feel alive, as the best album of the year with a rate of 27% after one year at the gala 'Disco of the year 2007', held on December 26 of that year, collected the 'Best album of 2006' (I feel alive). Despite being considered the "coolest and powerful disk Rose 'album with this board for now as she ended Dance-Pop style that debuted with two albums now and I feel alive, with the reason for creating your own style musical.

During 2007 flirted with the world of interpretation in "The menegilda" also appeared in several series, television ads as the campaign conducted by Covirán recorded in the municipality of Granada Dúrcal and comedy. In the summer returned to the stage to make me feel alive tour 2007, due to the great success she experienced with the 2006 tour, I feel alive. Rosa Lopez decides to prepare a new album out early 2008, but due to the death of her father decided to delay the disc at the end of the year the artist through a dance contest held in the summer, ran next to another dancer to represent Spain in the Eurodance Festival but due to a decision by TVE 1 is not welcome. During the summer it signed a promotional image for 'supermarkets Covirán' Some weeks after she gave details of their new album on its official website premiered in the summer of 2007.

On October 7, 2008 is published the fifth studio album Promises Rock-Ballad of a musical turn 180 degrees, with 10 great classics of the international Pop Rock of the 80s and 90s produced by Jordi Cristau. [46] On December 22 participated in the gala 'and Placido copla' held on TVE-1, a tribute to the 'copla' and some of the best tenors of Spain 'Plácido Domingo, "Rose sang the songs" Sighs of Spain "and" blackberry " Under this last and next to various artists such as Diego el Cigala and Pitinga. In 2009. After a press conference to present their new tour on June 10 in her native Grenada, she begins the Tour Promises which will take you to travel across the country.

2002: Eurovision Song Contest

In the last episode of "OT: Eurovision", the home audience decided that Rosa would represent Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Tallinn

Tallinn

Tallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia. It occupies an area of with a population of 414,940. It is situated on the northern coast of the country, on the banks of the Gulf of Finland, south of Helsinki, east of Stockholm and west of Saint Petersburg. Tallinn's Old Town is in the list...

, Estonia

Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

 on May 22, 2002.

Rosa sang the song Europe's Living a Celebration

Europe's Living a Celebration

"Europe's Living a Celebration" was the Spanish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002, performed in Spanish by Rosa.The song was performed fifth on the night, preceded by Greece's Michalis Rakintzis with "S.A.G.A.P.O.", and followed by Croatia's Vesna Pisarović with "Everything I Want"...

, accompanied by her friends and fellow OT:Eurovision contestants David Bisbal

David Bisbal

David Bisbal Ferré is a Grammy-winning Spanish pop singer. He gained his initial fame as a runner up on the interactive reality television show Operación Triunfo produced by TJ Hall....

, David Bustamante

David Bustamante

David Bustamante Hoyos is a Spanish singer.-Biography:Bustamante's breakthrough was in the TV hit Operación Triunfo. This show broke ratings records as well as dominated the top position of the CD sales charts during its 5 month run...

, Chenoa

Chenoa

María Laura Corradini Falomir, popularly known as Chenoa is a famous Argentine-Spanish female music artist who became successful after appearing on the TV contest Operación Triunfo. Her music style could be described in the United States as pop...

, Gisela and Geno Machado

Abdullah Kobayashi

, is a Japanese professional wrestler best known by his stage name Abdullah Kobayashi after Abdullah the Butcher, who was his trainer. He began his career in 1995 as one of the main wrestlers in Big Japan Pro Wrestling and has wrestled for Big Japan Pro Wrestling throughout most of his career....

 and finished in 7th position with 81 points, despite being tipped to win by the Spanish media. Yet the program was a Eurovision audience of 14,380,000 (85.2% Share) share the record for getting the most watched moment in the history of television in Spain, which existed from the private (1990) and also from that there were a barometer of hearings (1993). This was the most watched television program in Spain until the conclusion of the final of Euro 2008.

2006 and 2008: ¡Mira quién baila!

Was proclaimed winner of the end of the third edition of the first of TVE ¡Mira quién baila!, With 62% of the vote, followed by Milene Dominguez and David Meca.

The contest was presented by Anne Igartiburu followed by more (3,248,000), with a display of 21.7%. The minute was seen at 23.58 when more than five million viewers of the program were outstanding. At that time the share was 37.2%.

On January 7, 2008 was issued called "final end", representing the last gala of the program, choosing the best dancer among almost all the contestants who participated in the six editions. At that gala, was proclaimed winner singer Rosa Lopez, who also won the third edition of ¡Mira quién baila!.

Albums

• 2002: Rosa
• 2003: Ahora
• 2004: Ojalá
• 2005: Rosa En Concierto (DVD)
• 2006: Me siento viva
• 2008: Promesas
• 2009: Propiedad de nadie

Tours

• 2002: Gira Rosa
  Gira Rosa
  Gira Rosa is the first concert tour by Spanish singer Rosa López. It supported her first studio album, Rosa and visited Spain. Beginning in July 12 in Cordoba, Spain and scheduled for completion on 13 October in Jaén, but due to some vocal problems had to cancel part of her concerts, her last...
  
  
• 2004: Gira Ahora
  Gira Ahora
  Gira Ahora is the second concert tour by Spanish singer Rosa López. It supported her second studio album, Ahora. Beginning in April 4 in Elche and finish in Octuber 31 in Barcelona.-Set list:#Intro#«Don't stop the music, baby»#«Las calles de Granada»...
  
  
• 2006–2007: Gira Me Siento Viva
  Gira Me Siento Viva
  Gira Me Siento Viva is the third concert tour by Spanish singer Rosa López. It supported her third studio album, Me Siento Viva. Beginning in July 14,2006 in Santiago de Compostela and finish in Octuber 6,2007 in Alquerías del Niño Perdido.-Setlist:#Intro...
  
  
• 2009: Gira Promesas
• 2010: Propiedad De Nadie Tour 2010
• 2010-2011: Gira 10 aniversario

External links

• Rosa López - Official website
• Rosa López - Official Twitter
  Twitter
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• Rosa López - Spotify
  Spotify
  Spotify is a Swedish-founded, UK-headquartered DRM-based music streaming service offering streaming of selected music from a range of major and independent record labels, including Sony, EMI, Warner Music Group, and Universal. Launched in October 2008 by Swedish startup Spotify AB, the service had...