Biography
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Elvira Quintillá
Real name: Elvira Quintillá Ramos
Effective period / Period of releases: 1960 - 1961
Barcelona, September 19, 1928 - Madrid, December 27, 2013.She was a Spanish actress and singer (zarzuelas), active between 1941 - 2004. Although is little known, she also won the 1st Prize for Interpretation, with the band Los Iruña'ko at the 2nd Benidorm Festival, in 1960. Taking advantage of the pull of his triumph in Benidorm, a new release with clear rhythmic content was immediately published: "Te Amaré Toda la Vida" (Hispavox, 1960), but didn't achieve significant sales.
In the 1961 edition of the Benidorm Festival -third in chronological order-, which had already become the most important event of that incipient modern Spanish music, she did not attend. However, she recorded an EP with songs from that date, led by the winning song "Enamorada", generically titled "III Spanish Song Festival" (Hispavox, 1961), but went completely unnoticed. Her acting career was more succesful so he move to acting (for instance “Plácido”, byLuis García Berlanga, 1961). She would no longer record or participate in musical activities.