Olga Ramos | |
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Born | Trinidad Olga Ramos Sanguino 18 July 1918 Badajoz, Spain |
Died | 25 August 2005 Boadilla del Monte, Spain | (aged 87)
Resting place | Cementerio de la Almudena |
Occupation(s) | Singer, actress |
Spouse | Enrique Martínez de Gamboa |
Children | Olga María Ramos |
Musical career | |
Genres | Cuplé |
Instruments | Voice, violin |
Trinidad Olga Ramos Sanguino (18 July 1918 – 25 August 2005) was a Spanish cupletista, violinist, and actress known as the queen of the cuplé.[1][2]
She appeared singing a song in the 1940 film Leyenda rota, with Juan de Orduña and Maruchi Fresno, directed by Carlos Fernández Cuenca .[1][3]
She studied violin at the Madrid Royal Conservatory, where she won the first prize for chamber music in 1943.[1]
In the 1940s, she conducted the Orquesta Fémina, an "orchestra of young ladies", in various locations in the city such as Café Universal[4][5]
.After a few years withdrawn from the world of entertainment, from 1967 to 1978 she sang at the Madrid venue El Último Cuplé, at 51 Calle de la Palma[6] Two years later, Ramos reopened the club, becoming an entrepreneur, with her daughter, Olga María Ramos , under the name Las Noches del Cuplé, and performed there daily until its final closure in 1999.[1]
, until its closure.Her husband, Enrique Martínez de Gamboa, composed several of her songs.[4]