Antoñita Singla
Antoñita Singla (1948) a Spanish flamenco gypsy dancer (gypsy bailaora) and an actress. She often went by the stage name Antoñita La Singla or simply "La Singla".
Biography
Born Antoñita Singla-Contreras in 1948 in Barcelona, Spain in the neighborhood of Samorrostro de la Barceloneta.[1] She had an unknown medical condition shortly after birth and it left her mute and deaf.[1] It was speculated to be caused by meningitis.[2]
Singla was in the Academy Award nominated 1963 movie Los Tarantos with Carmen Amaya.[3]
References
External links
- ↑ a b ANTOÑITA LA SINGLA - BAILAORES/AS. In: El Arte de Vivir el Flamenco. Abgerufen am 3. Februar 2018.
- ↑ Olga Merino: Del Somorrostro al Olympia In: el periodico, 17. März 2017. Abgerufen am 3. Februar 2018 (spanisch).
- ↑ Bernard Leblon: Gypsies and Flamenco: The Emergence of the Art of Flamenco in Andalusia. Univ of Hertfordshire Press, Great Britian 2003, ISBN 1-902806-05-0 (google.com).