- Enrique Iglesias
Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler (born May 8, 1975, in Madrid, Spain) is a Grammy Award and Latin Grammy Award-winning Spanish-born, Miami-based singer and is of Asian and european ancestry. His Asian ancestry comes from his mother's side of the family. Iglesias is the son of the famous Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and the Filipina socialite Isabel Preysler.
- Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lynn Lopez, popularly nicknamed J.Lo, is an American actress, singer, songwriter, dancer, and fashion designer. She is the richest Hispanic in Hollywood according to the website "A Socialite's Life" and the most influential Hispanic entertainer in America according to "People en Español"s list of 100 Most Influential Hispanics which pays tribute to Hispanics who have had an impact on their communities.
- Marc Anthony
Marc Anthony is an American singer-songwriter popular in Latin America for his salsa music and salsa monga ballads.
- Paulina Rubio
Paulina Rubio Dosamantes (born June 17 1971) is a Grammy and Latin Grammy-nominated Mexican singer and actress.
- Julio Iglesias
Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva is Spain's best selling singer and the best-selling Spanish singer of all time. Julio Iglesias has sold over 250 million records in different languages and released 77 records. He thus far has performed approximately 5,000 concerts during his career and recorded albums in fourteen different languages.
- Alejandro Sanz
Alejandro Sanz, born Alejandro Sánchez Pizarro on December 18 1968 in Madrid, Spain, is a Grammy Award winning Spanish pop/ballad musician. The second son of María Pizarro Medina from Alcalá de los Gazules, and Jesús Sánchez Madero from Algeciras.
- Rosa López
Rosa López, also known as Rosa, or Rosa de España, is a Spanish singer and dancer. Her musical career began when she sang with a small orchestra at parties in the Granada area (Andalucía). She was chosen to participate in the singing academy of Spanish television, "Operación Triunfo", a series (similar to "American Idol"); she eventually won the first season of the competition in 2001.
- Laura Pausini
Laura Pausini (born May 16, 1974) is a Grammy Award and Latin Grammy Award-winning Italian pop singer, popular in some European and Latin American countries, famed for her soulful voice, her romantic adult contemporary ballads and love songs. She has recorded songs in Italian, Spanish, English, French and Portuguese.
- Joaquín Sabina
Joaquín Sabina is a Spanish singer-songwriter and poet, well-known in several Spanish-speaking countries.
- Miguel Bosé
Miguel Luchino González Bosé, is a Latin Grammy-winning Spanish musician and actor. He has been in many successful Spanish language movies and other artistic works.
- Soraya Arnelas
Soraya Arnelas Rubiales is a Spanish singer. She was born in Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain. Soraya won the World Online Song Contest 10 (WOSC) for Spain with 141 points, with her song entitled Mi Mundo Sin Ti (My World without You). Her 2005 album is Corazon De Fuego ("Heart of Fire"). Soraya is the second winner of the reality show Operación Triunfo 2005 edit by Telecinco. Soraya studied at Nuestra Señora de los Remedios school and at Lostau Valverde High School.
- Antonio Mairena
Antonio Cruz García, known as Antonio Mairena was a famous flamenco singer. He led the movement towards the revival of traditional flamenco in the fifties and subsequent decades.
- David Bisbal
David Bisbal is a Latin Grammy-winning Spanish pop singer. He gained famed as a finalist on the interactive reality television show "Operación Triunfo". He has since released three studio albums, all of which topped the Spanish Singles Chart, and toured throughout Spain and Latin America.
- Paloma San Basilio
Paloma San Basilio is a singer. She starred in the Spanish language premiere production of Andrew Lloyd Weber's Evita at Teatro Monumental in Madrid. The show later transferred to Barcelona and certain cities in Latin America. She represented Spain at the Eurovision Song Contest 1985 in Gothenburg, Sweden, with the sad ballad "La fiesta terminó" (The party ended), and finished 14th.
- Mai Meneses
Mai Meneses, Spanish singer-songwriter. Mai Meneses, the youngest of six children, has a Bachelor degree in Law and has worked as in administration. In 2002, she was a contestant on the 2nd series of Operacion Triunfo, where she was first to be voted off; after her participation, she released a single "Vuelve". In 2003, she collaborated in one of the songs of "Soy capaz & Pequeñas cosas" by Inma Serrano called Mi Amor.
- Camilo Sesto
Camilo Blanes Cortés better known in the entertainment world as Camilo Sesto is a native of Alcoi, a Valencian city located in the province of Alicante, who enjoyed fame as a singer and composer during the 1970s and the 1980s. Probably the most prominent male voice of Spanish pop music at that time, he became famous for his powerful, carefully arranged ballads. Sesto sang in two pop bands during the 1960s and won a contest in a Madrid TV show.
- Verónica Romeo
Verónica Romeo is a Spanish singer who became successful after appearing on TV contest "Operación Triunfo", where she was voted as the sixth favourite singer of the audience. Her powerful voice (she reaches the whistle register), her beauty and her simpathy caught people attention. Among her covers are found hits like "You'd Better Stop", "Un-break My Heart" ("Regresa a mí") and "One Day I'll Fly Away". Since the Contest, she has released four albums, …
- Luz Casal
Luz Casal (born November 11, 1958 at Boimorto, Galicia) is a Spanish pop singer. She grew up in Asturias, took singing, piano and ballet classes, and moved to Madrid to pursue a career as a musician. She became famous in the early 1980s, and remained as an important figure in Spanish pop music all through said decade and beyond, with her sound gradually maturing towards soft adult pop.
- Isabel Pantoja
Isabel Pantoja is a popular contemporary Spanish singer, born on 2 August 1956, in the Triana district of Seville, Spain. She has released more than a dozen albums throughout a career spanning many decades, and is known for her distinctive Andalusian style. Her husband, the bullfighter "Paquirri" (Francisco Rivera), died in the bullring on 26 September 1984, at the horns of the now infamous bull Avispado in Pozoblanco, Córdoba.
- Manuel Carrasco
Manuel Carrasco is a Spanish singer who was born in Isla Cristina, Province of Huelva (Andalucía), Spain. He was one of the three finalists of the TV program Operación Triunfo. His debut album called "Quiéreme" had the hit single "Que corra el aire" and sold more than 200,000 records.
- Enrique Morente
Enrique Morente Cotelo, known as Enrique Morente, born in Granada, 1942 is a flamenco singer and controversial figure of contemporary flamenco. After his orthodox beginnings, he plunged into experimentalism, innovating the melodies of "cante" (flamenco singing) and jamming with musicians of all styles, without renouncing to its roots and to more traditional flamenco singing, which he keeps on cultivating.
- Achinoam Nini
Known in Israel by her given name Achinoam Nini, Noa is Israel's leading international concert and recording artist. Born in Tel Aviv in 1969 Noa lived in New York City from age 2 until her return to Israel alone at the age of 17. Her family is originally from Yemen. After serving the mandatory two years in the Israeli Army in a military entertainment unit, Noa studied music at the Rimon School where she met her long-time partner and collaborator Gil Dor.
- Manolo Caracol
- María Isabel
María Isabel López Rodríguez is a singer and the winner of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004
- Enrique Bunbury
Enrique Ortiz de Landazury Yzarduy, born August 11, 1967 is a Spanish rock singer/songwriter. Bunbury was born in Zaragoza, Spain. He got involved in music in the early 1980s, making his debut in a high school band called Apocalipsis, and later played along with Proceso Entrópico. In 1984, Bunbury joined a group called Zumo de Vidrio, debuting as a lead vocalist.
- Ricardo Montaner
Venezuelan pop singer Ricardo Montaner was born as Hector Eduardo Reglero Montaner on September 8 1957 in Valentín Alsina, Buenos Aires, Argentina, but moved to Venezuela when he was 6 years old. During his youth he performed in the church chorus in the town of Maracaibo and soon after launched his career in the early 80's.
- Lola Flores
Lola Flores, born January 21, 1923 in Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz, Spain - died May 16, 1995, Madrid) was a singer, dancer, and actress. Born María de los Dolores Flores Ruiz, Lola Flores became a famous dancer and singer of Andalusian folklore at a very young age, featuring in films from 1939 to 1987. Her greatest success was in folklore shows with Manolo Caracol, who was her artistic partner until 1951.
- Martirio
Maribel Quiñones or "María Isabel Quiñones Gutiérrez" in full, known under her stage name as Martirio ("Martyr", in English) is a Spanish singer born in 1958 in Huelva, Spain. She borrows her style and inspiration from flamenco that she adapts or merge with more modern musical trends, especially jazz and tango but also pop, rock, swing and guaracha, in this sense, she can properly be ranked as a New Flamenco artist.
- Joan Manuel Serrat
Joan Manuel Serrat i Teresa (born December 27, 1943 in Barcelona) is a Spanish singer-songwriter. Catalan singer-songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat got involved in music at the age of 17, when he got his first guitar, to which he dedicates one of his earliest songs, "Una guitarra." In early 60's the young artist participated in a pop band playing along with classmates at Barcelona's Agronomy School, …
- Daniel Zueras
Daniel Zueras is a Spanish pop singer most famous for his performance in the Spanish TV show Operación Triunfo (also known as Star Academy), in which he came in second in 2006. Zueras was born on November 13, 1981 in Zaragoza, Spain. His style is a mixture of Pop/Dance and R&B, with the influence of 80's electronic.
- Mercedes Ferrer
Mercedes Ferrer is a Spanish singer-songwriter, active since 1983. She studied Modern Literature in the Sorbonne. Influenced by the Doors, Bob Dylan or David Bowie, she took part in several French musical bands until she went back to Madrid in 1984, during la movida madrileña. She met Carlos Torero and more musicians and they created the group "La llave", which wan VIII trofeo rock Villa de Madrid in 1985 and was a support band of The Cure.
- Camarón de la Isla
El Camarón de la Isla, stage name of flamenco singer José Monje Cruz but is sometimes also credited as "José Monge Cruz". His uncle José nicknamed him Camarón (Spanish for "Shrimp") because he was blonde haired and fair skinned. At the age of eight he began to sing at inns and bus stops with Rancapino to earn money. At sixteen he won first prize at the Festival del Cante Jondo in Mairena de Alcor.
- Álex Ubago
Álex Ubago is a Spanish singer-songwriter born in Vitoria. He is especially known for his heartfelt voice and his ballads. His rise to fame was gradual and slow. At first, his debut album didn't sell much. Alex started to tour national radios with his guitar, the way many American pop stars do, to sing his songs live and be interviewed. Eventually this strategy worked and his album finally hit the charts.
- Manuel Torre
Manuel Soto Loreto, known as Manuel Torre or Manuel Torres (Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, 1878-Seville, Spain, 1933, Romani (Kalo) flamenco singer. He was born in the neighbourhood of San Miguel, which together with the neighbourhood of Santiago, are the traditional centers of flamenco in Jerez. One of the most representative singers of Jerez, he was influenced by singers Manuel Molina, …
- Sara Montiel
Sara Montiel (also Sarita Montiel or Saritísima is a Spanish singer, and actress. She is still a much-loved and internationally known name in the Spanish-speaking movie and music industries. She was born in Campo de Criptana in the region of Castile-La Mancha in 1928 as María Antonia Abad. After her unprecedented international hit in Juan de Orduña's "El Último Cuplé" in 1957, …
- Nino Bravo
Luis Manuel Ferri Llopis ". The winner of the show would represent Spain in 1971's Eurovision contest, and Bravo came in second place. Bravo then went on another Latin American tour, visiting Colombia for the first time ever, and stopping in Brazil to participate in his second Rio de Janeiro festival. Tied for first place at the festival, he eventually lost during a recount to an American singer. Also in 1971, Nino Bravo recorded his second album, which went untitled.
- Antonio Flores
Antonio Flores, born Antonio González Flores, was a Spanish singer-songwriter and actor. He was the only male child of singers and actors Antonio González 'El Pescaílla' and Lola Flores. He was the brother of actresses Lolita Flores and Rosario Flores. He was divorced to Ana Villa with whom he had a daughter, Alba.
- Niña Pastori
Niña Pastori is a Spanish flamenco singer (cantaora). She was born María Rosa García García in San Fernando (Cádiz) on 15 January 1978. The youngest of five siblings and only daughter of a military man (José) and gypsy flamenco singer "La Pastori", she started very young her artistic career. At the age of only six she accompanied her mother in the flamenco tablaos of her neighborhood, "el Boquete".
- Lolita Flores
Lolita Flores (Dolores González Flores is a Spanish actress and singer. She's daughter of Lola Flores and Antonio González, sister of Antonio Flores and Rosario Flores. She was married to Guillermo Furiase and they had two children Elena and Guillermo. Her first hit was "Amor, amor", and later, her albums "Quién lo va a detener" and "Atrasar el reloj" were successful too.
- Natalia Oreiro
Natalia Marisa Oreiro Iglesias Poggio Bourié is a popular Latin Grammy-nominated Uruguayan singer and actress that developed most of her career in Argentina.