V/A – ¡Chicas! – Vol 2. – Spanish Female Singers -1963-1978 – 2LP

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Much of the Spanish female music from past decades didn’t reach their potential audience. Too much. For varied reasons, the more personal and daring work couldn’t break the barriers imposed by a society with a narrow and prudish view of what a woman’s role should be. This second volume of “¡Chicas! must disprove again the lie that says that in the 60s and first half of the 70s, Spanish female artists hardly sang anything but ye-yé, singer-songwriter, copla or romantic songs. Despite all the social determinants and repressive archetypes which stigmatized anyone who left the queue, the most courageous women began their paths in new music roles which they immediately considered their own. Embarking on all the fashionable innovative experiences, as well as those styles in which their supposed and accepted specialization made them succeed, Spanish girls started to show all they were capable of.

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