{"id":264053,"date":"2023-01-24T07:51:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T12:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=264053"},"modified":"2023-01-24T07:51:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T12:51:01","slug":"lola-and-celia-iberian-and-caribbean-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/music-culture\/lola-and-celia-iberian-and-caribbean-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Lola and Celia: Iberian and Caribbean fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Videos, phrases, songs of the artist are reviewed over and over again. Her desperate cry of \u201c<\/span>Si me quer\u00e9is, irse<\/a><\/strong>\u201d is already part of the Spanish popular heritage; she decorates t-shirts and mugs for sale inside and outside of Spain, and there are those who even have the face of the Jerez-born singer tattooed somewhere on their body.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In January 2021, 25 years after her death, the Cruzcampo beer brand launched an advertising campaign starring a deepfake of Lola that put her back on the screens. \u201c<\/span>Do you know why I was understood all over the world? Because of the accent<\/a><\/strong>.<\/strong>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Yo soy la Lola se\u00f1ores<\/span><\/i>
\n<\/span>La Lola, que usted espera<\/span><\/i>
\n<\/span>Con traje o bata de cola<\/span><\/i>
\n<\/span>Yo soy la Lola se\u00f1ores<\/span><\/i>
\n<\/span>De J\u00e9rez de la Frontera<\/span><\/i>
\n<\/span>Y es mi cabeza gitana<\/span><\/i>
\n<\/span>Mis brazos dos monumentos<\/span><\/i>
\n<\/span>Y en los flecos del mant\u00f3n<\/span><\/i>
\n<\/span>Yo me llevo enreao<\/span><\/i>
\n<\/span>Un suspiro de pasi\u00f3n<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Some of the most prominent appearances of La Faraona on television are used in content that circulates daily on social networks. Lola Flores is even considered a precursor of crowdfunding, for the solution she proposed to deal with her debt to the treasury: \u201cIf each Spaniard gave a peseta.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

We can like Lola Flores or not. We can try to keep distance with that intensity that she, as one of the most famous folklore artists, puts into her art; and, nevertheless, it will be impossible not to recognize that Mar\u00eda Dolores Flores Ruiz turned Lola Flores, a century ago, into one of the most relevant and interesting personalities in Spain and the Spanish-speaking world.<\/span><\/p>\n