Lole Montoya - Lole Montoya canta a Manuel de Falla (2020)

She was born in the spring of 1954 in Triana (Seville). Daughter of Juan Montoya, bailaor, ny Antonia Rodríguez «La negra», cantaora and bailaora born in Orán (Algeria). Thanks in part to the fact that her Calé family was "one of the most intense and compact groups in the world of flamenco", Lole had the privilege of tanning from a very young age in prestigious tablaos such as Los Gallos (Seville) or Las Bruges (Madrid). Lole also came, as a teenager, to share the same stage with people of the stature of La Perla de Triana or Camarón de la Isla, this last close friend of Lole and Manuel, in 1994, they would dedicate a song to him entitled «Arriba el Cielo ». The beginning of the couple's discography, which took place in 1975 with the release of an album entitled "Nuevo Día" (Movieplay), coincided with a surprising success that allowed them to be favored by the public from the beginning. Success that would continue for the next eight years, with the successive edition of works: "Pasaje del Agua" (CBS), "Romero Verde" (CBS), "Al Alba con Alegría" (CBS) and "Casta" (CBS). Raimundo Amador from Pata Negra), El Niño Jero, Alvaro (from Dulce Venganza) and Manolo Marinelli (from Alameda) are just a few more names among the many who appeared as collaborators during those years. At the end of 1968, two years after the publication of "Casta", they decide to separate. Lole Montoya returns to the show scene, this time embracing the purest classical Arabic style. And it is that since her childhood, due to the influence of her mother, she had had a lot of contact with the world and Arab music. Contact that marked her professional career, so that among other curious things she was invited by King Asan to sing in his palace in Rabat. In 1991, a first artistic reunion of Lole and Manuel took place, and this, in style, at the Lope de Vega Theater in Seville. This was not, and neither will the following, a definitive reunion. After all this, the couple disappeared again to reappear in 1992 with the interpretation of some fragments of Amor Brujo de Falla. Of this event, a recording edited out of passion with the title "Lole and Manuel sing to Manuel de Falla" remained for history.
The next step will be taken years later, in 1994, when Virgin Records makes a masterful release of the sixth official recording of Lole and Manuel together, entitled "Alba Molina" in honor of their fifteen-year-old daughter they had in common. "Never the return of some artists has aroused so much expectation just with the news of their return." In 2002 she performed in the Original Flamenco show sharing the bill with Diego Carrasco, in the San Miguel auditorium, within the events held at the XII Bienal de Flamenco in Seville.