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Pastora Soler
12+ albums
popspanishFlamencofemale vocalistsfolk
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Pilar Sánchez Luque (born September 27, 1978 in Coria del Río, Seville), better known by her stage name Pastora Soler, is a Spanish singer. She is also a songwriter and her compositions usually mix copla or flamenco with or pop or electronic music. Soler represented Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan with "Quédate Conmigo (Stay With Me)". A precocious chanteuse, she started singing coplas and flamenco songs at several events when she was a child. In 1994 she was signed to the record company Polygram to release her first studio album, "Nuestras coplas", which consisted of covers of ten classical copla songs by León or Quiroga. Pop and commercial sounds arrived in 1996 with her second album, "El mundo que soné", which was the last she published with Polygram. In 1999 she was signed to Emi-Odeón and released her third album, "Fuente de luna". This album included her first big hit single, "Dámelo ya", which sold 120,000 copies in Spain and was also a number one hit in Turkey. In 2001, her fourth album "Corazón congelado" was published, produced by Carlos Jean.The same-titled single was selected to be the official theme of the 2001 Vuelta a España. The album received a platinum certification for its sales. Her fifth album, "Deseo" (2002), was also produced by Carlos Jean; musically it was closer to electronic music than her previous works. This album was also awarded a platinum certification. In 2005, she changed record company and signed to Warner M
