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Women in History: Lola Flores and pop culture

“Do you want to know why I’m still beautiful? Cause the eyes’ brightness cannot be operated ”-Lola Flores

“They all say I’m older than them, and they all seem as old as my aunties”- Lola Flores

“You can do everything in life. With methods”- Lola Flores

Spanish diva par excellence. Born in extreme poorness in Jerez, Andalusia, half-spanish, half-gipsy, and proud of both her roots she became a true living icon of strength. Her boldness, sincerity and fortitude rapidly became popular in a spanish after-war (1936-1938) where people was devastated by a civil conflict. In those times, cinema became a way to escape from reality: Films were usually musicals with spanish folklore theme-oriented, a way the Francoist regime had to make nationalist propaganda, in where andalusian and gipsy culture was depicted as “Typical Spanish”. Lola Flores was the perfect embodiement of those ideas: the andalusian gipsy women with black hair, brown eyes and skin. But her bluntness was inmortal. She had a very hard to find charismatic personality that made every people fall in love with her. Once, in 1953, she went to EEUU for a spectacle, a critic from The New York Times said: “She doesn’t sing nor dance. Don’t miss her”. Others have said: “Lola Flores is almost a religion”. Later in her life, she became a very popular TV personality. She died in 1995 from a breast cancer, but her influence in popular culture is still live, and for years to come.