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Cecilia
Evangelina Sobredo Galanes, known mononymously as Cecilia, was a Spanish folk
singer and songwriter. Born in Madrid on October 11, 1948, she embarked on her
music career in the late 1960s and achieved her first success when she won a
national songwriting competition at age 16. Early on, she collaborated with
Nacho Sáez de Tejada and Julio Seijas in a group named Expresión. However, her
solo career truly blossomed in the 1970s when she signed a contract with CBS and
began using "Cecilia" as her stage name, a moniker inspired by the Simon &
Garfunkel hit of the same name. Her debut...
