Cristina Llanos Fayos (born 3 December 1975) is a Spanish musician, singer, guitarist and songwriter. She was the lead vocalist and principal songwriter of the Spanish rock band

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Biography

She attended Virgen de Europa School in

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, and she left it after repeating the course at 18 years old. After living six months in London, she worked in clothing stores that her mother run in a mall of

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. She is the younger sister of

Amparo Llanos Amparo Llanos Fayos (born 27 May 1965) is a Spanish musician, guitarist and songwriter. She was the leader, along with her sister Cristina, of the Spanish rock band Dover. Biography Before the foundation of the band, she worked in the shop of ...

, guitarist and band leader of Dover, who influenced her by teaching her to play the guitar and introducing her to bands like

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. She began her career in 1992 with her sister Amparo and

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. They found a bassist ( Alvaro Díez) and recorded the album "

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", which was a great disappointment, selling only 700 copies. Two years later, they released " Devil Came to Me" with which they got a remarkable success of sales, 800,000 copies. In 2006, "

Follow the city lights ''Follow the City Lights'' is the sixth album by Spanish rock band Dover. In contrast to previous releases, the album has an electronic character. Cristina Llanos, Amparo Llanos and programmer and drummer Jesús Antúnez were joined by Samuel ...

" was released, turning its music genre to electronics. A few years later, the album "

I Ka Kené I Ka Kené is the seventh album by the Madrid-based group Dover, released on 4 October 2010. The title translates to ''"Are you fine?"'' in the Bambara language. The songs were composed between March 2009 and May 2010. The album itself was recor ...

" was published and had a strong influence of African sounds. In February 2015, they released a new album, " Complications", with which they returned to their origins of rock. Cristina was responsible for most of the lyrics of the group.

Discography

Dover

* ''

'' (1995) * '' Devil Came to Me'' (1997) * '' Late at Night'' (1999) * ''

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'' (2001) * '' The Flame'' (2003) * ''

Follow the City Lights ''Follow the City Lights'' is the sixth album by Spanish rock band Dover. In contrast to previous releases, the album has an electronic character. Cristina Llanos, Amparo Llanos and programmer and drummer Jesús Antúnez were joined by Samuel ...

'' (2006) * ''

'' (2010) * '' Complications'' (2015)

References

External links

Official Web: Dover

Twitter: Dover

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MySpace: Dover
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