Paquita Escribano

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Paquita Escribano (* around 1890 in Saragossa ; † around 1970 in Valencia ) was a Spanish singer.

Escribano grew up in Ejea de los Caballeros and later in Saragossa, where her parents ran a guesthouse that was frequented by bullfighters and actors. In the 1910s she went to Madrid and had her breakthrough as a couplet singer with La Goya . With the labels Odeon and Gramófono she recorded several records with a total of 39 couplets and songs in the 1920s. She sang in the largest coliseums in Spain, gave concerts for the benefit of war casualties and performed in front of the royal family in La Granja. Numerous tours took her through Spain and the USA, and she also had joint appearances with Carlos Gardel .

Her romances were also played regularly at bullfights; one of them inspired Alberto Insúa to write the novel La mujer, el torero y el toro (1926). In 1933 she married the tenor Emilio Aznar Estruch . In the same year, after another trip to America, she undertook her last major tour with her company, during which she not only performed couplets but also “estampas liricas”, a kind of short form of the Sainete . After the end of the Spanish Civil War, Escribano retired to Valencia, where she died around 1970.

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personal data
SURNAME Escribano, Paquita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish singer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Zaragoza
DATE OF DEATH around 1970
Place of death Valencia