Biography

Spanish singer, actress, and comedienne, who reached her career zenith in the 1910s and 1920s but managed to remain active throughout the 1960s. Her parents were pianist Arturo de Isaura and soprano Carmen Pérez, both linked to the Zarzuela musical genre, consequently Amalia was raised in show business and started performing at an early age. As a young adult, she was already a featured player in various zarzuelas of the era such as "Las musas latinas" (1913) by Manuel Penella but she felt more at home performing solo. Working on stage she discovered that, apart from singing, her talent laid in comedy, parody and satire. She was a born mimic of extraordinary vitality who created her own ad-libs during songs, knowing instinctively how to bring the audience into a frenzy. Amalia also made hilarious parodies of celebrities from Francesca Bertini to Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson, offering the public a novelty act that was unique and hard to resist. Influenced by her art, composers began

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Filmography