Cándida Pérez Martínez

Spanish singer and composer (Olot, Girona, 28 July, 1893 - Olot, Girona, 15 Novembre, 1989). Married to Neapolitan music director Melquíadez Lucarelli Ferri in 1922, she composed such well-known cuplés as "Les caramelles", "La Marieta de l'ull viu", "El noi de la mare" and "La fornera de la Ronda". For her compositions she is known as The Mother of the Catalan Cuplé.