Yolanda (14)

Spanish pop singer, she was born in Jaén, Spain in the year 1946. In 1966, in Barcelona, ​​the Victoria label started up; in that boot his team has two sets, a coplero and a girl ye-yé. A modest budget, a lot of desire and in the pits, the musical director Vicente Sabater. That girl ye-yé whom we previously alluded to calls herself Yolanda, a name then considered exotic; however, her national identity document mentions Mercedes Peñalver Guzmán. Mercedes followed her brothers and in the early 1960s settled in Barcelona. There she got involved in the youth musical environments, acting whenever she can in festivals and radio programs facing the public. Sabater looks at her for the new label where she will first publish The Winchester Cathedral, Now or Never, La Salud, Dame Pan (Victoria, 1966). In the back cover of the disc international subject is given to affirming that these pieces are hits in England, Italy, France and Spain respectively. It is a good EP with which Yolanda shows to have one of the best voices of the Spanish ye-yé and with some orchestrations above the average. She managed to be at the beginning of 1967 the first of the new label to appear in a television musical program, specifically in Telerhythm. The two most heard are the Spanish cover of "The Cathedral of Winchester" by the British New Vaudeville Band and the saberrachera "Dame pan", which would be his best known song. However, the most interesting song is "Health", a composition of the unpredictable Serge Gainsbourg. The first recordings: Already in that first microsurco she was nicknamed "La Voz que Acaricia", a name that will appear again in her second EP, "I Do not Live Without Your Love / In Me You Can Trust / Give Me Bread / You, Me and a Flower" (Victoria , 1967). Her second album will have worse commercial output than the first, always within secondary circuits of promotion and distribution. Its main track is occupied by the Spanish version of "I could not live without your love", popularized the previous year in England by Petula Clark. Fed up with festivals and performances, she left the Victoria label in 1968, leaving behind two interesting albums. She met a young Catalan whose family lived in Venezuela and who returned to perform military service under pain of being declared a fugitive. They fell in love and ended up getting married. She continued to act a little longer in the Barcelona area, and from March 1969 she went to live in Venezuela. Before leaving, she would still record a third album that would be released the following year thanks to the financing of her own brother and who lacked all propaganda. The single "The Happiest Day / I Like the Fall" (1970) would appear under the name of Yolanda Youthful and would put an end to the career of this singer in Spain, although she would appear several times on Venezuelan television in the show of the famous presenter Remy Ottolina and other musical events.