María Dolores Castellón Vargas (16 May 1936 – 7 August 2016) was a Spanish singer. When she was young she went to sing to the theatre Teatro Calderón of

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. She sang alongside her brother, Enrique. Later she appeared on television, notably '' A la española'', directed by

Valerio Lazarov Valeriu Lazarov or Valerio Lazarov (December 20, 1935, Bârlad, Romania – August 11, 2009, Tres Cantos, Spain) was a Romanian-born television producer and director of several TV channels from Romania, Spain and Italy. He defected to Spain in 196 ...

(1971). Her real popularity came with the song '' Achilipú (The song below)''.

Personal life

When her husband died in 1987 she retired. She died in

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on 7 August 2016 from complications of leukemia at age 80.

References

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