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- Died
- Birth nameEvangelina Sobredo Galanes
- Evangelina Sobredo was born on October 11, 1948 in El Pardo, Madrid, Spain. She was an actress, known for Cuéntame cómo pasó (2001), Drama (2010) and Pasos (2005). She died on August 2, 1976 in Benavente, Zamora, Castilla León, Spain.
- Her death was a national shock in Spain because she was only 27 years old. She's considered right now the best songwriter that Spain has ever had by such groups as Amaral and singers as Victor Manuel or Julio Iglesias.
- Her song "Reuníos" (in her first group, Expresión) was a request for the reunion of The Beatles, one of her favorite musical groups.
- Her song "Un ramito de violetas" has been sung by Julio Iglesias and many other artists and it's one of the most popular song in Spanish music. It tells the story of a married woman that receives flowers from an unknown man who is in reality her husband. It was a great success all over the world and it has an Israeli version.
- The night of the 2nd of August, 1976, when she was returning to Madrid from a concert in Vigo, while she was asleep on the backseat, her car crashed with an unlit bullock cart. She and a drummer died in the act.
- Recorded under the stage name "Cecilia", which she took from the Simon & Garfunkel song.
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