Real name: Mina Longo González

Effective period / Period of releases: 1964 - 1965

Mina Longo González, native of Colunga (Asturias, SPAIN). She had the luck and merit to interest the Zafiro record label and, almost without previous performances, she found herself hired to record her first album: “Recuerdos de Ypacarai / Siboney / Noche de Ronda / Envidia” (Zafiro, 1963).

That summer of '63 she appeared in society. She participates and reaches the final of the IV Hispano-Portuguese Song Festival of Aranda de Duero with the song “Islas Filipinas” that will lead her to her second EP.

Her third album is going to be a radical change for her. The melodica with South American tastes is going to backcomb her hair, she is going to speed up her pace somewhat and she is going to join the official list of Spanish ye-yé style girls.

Another obligatory stop was Benidorm Festival. The Asturian tandem formed by Albertina Cortés and Jaime Morey started as favorites in that edition. As a result of her performance at that festival, her best-selling EP was released: “VI Festival Español de la Canción de Benidorm” (Zafiro, 1964).

She ends the year with the release of an EP with a clear ye-yé content that included the cover of several French and North American songs,

Zafiro label had a large cast of ye-yé girls: Rosalía, Betina, Adriángela, Silvana Velasco... The record company looses its weight and fires Albertina Cortés.

She finds accommodation in a modest label the following year and again she performs in Benidorm Festival, but this time her songs do not make it through the qualifying rounds.

Albertina Cortés made other marginal recordings for publicity purposes. The most notable is the one she did for Brandy Fundador, specifically recording the song “Brindo”, one of her best songs. She would also make an album for Madrid city townhall in 1966 called "Mantenga Limpio Madrid" (“Keep Madrid Clean").

Her daughter has continued her musical career under her mother's real name, Mina Longo, being part of dance orchestras and participating in several television festivals, including the preselection for Eurovision 2001.