Flores para Lola

Talking about Lola Flores is talking about one of the most important artists in the history of our country. With his natural talent he was able to dye a black and white Spain that was dying under the yoke of the Franco dictatorship with color and, once it was finished, he knew how to reconvert himself and develop a fruitful career in music, film and television until the very day he died. his death. Among her exploits as a public figure, there is the one of having lived an absolutely free life, managing to maintain a relationship with a married man twenty years older than her or having had clandestine abortions on several occasions. And she not only sought her freedom, but also that of others: she was a great defender of the LGTBIQ+ collective at a time when it was not easy to be so and she became an (in)voluntary champion of feminism when this movement was just the germ of what is now. For this reason, on the centenary of her birth, this work sets out to reread her figure from a dissident perspective. Thanks to the texts by Carlos Barea, Lidia García, Noelia Cortés, Nerea Pérez de las Heras, Daniel María, Carlos Carvento, Fernando López, Pepa Blanes and Álex Ander, we will try to unravel one of the greatest mysteries that the popular culture of this country: that of that young lady from Jerez who arrived in Madrid determined to conquer the world and who, although she neither sang nor danced, managed to leave her name burned into the collective imagination of a people who, no matter how much time passes, refuses to forget her.