Pabla Flores
Pabla Flores | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | La Payi[1] |
| Born | Pabla Flores González 18 March 1955 María La Baja, Colombia |
| Genres | Bullerengue |
| Years active | 2000s–present |
| Member of | Pal' Lereo Pabla |
Pabla Flores González[a] (born 1955) is Colombian bullerengue singer and songwriter. She leads the musical group Pal' Lereo Pabla, and founded a bullerengue school in María La Baja.
Biography
[edit]Pabla Flores González was born on 18 March 1955 in María La Baja, in the Colombian department of Bolívar.[2] She was one of nine children, and she learned to sing by listening to her mother Eulalia González Bello, a well-known bullerengue singer.[3][4]
Flores started her music career when her mother began to lose her voice in the early 2000s.[4] Before that she had worked as a farmer, as a seller of fish, and in Venezuela as a domestic worker.[2] In 2014 she formed a bullerengue group called Pal' Lereo Pabla, comprising around 20 singers and musicians.[5][4] Pal' Lereo Pabla have performed at the National Bullerengue Festival in Necoclí, where Flores also won the award for best singer.[3]
In 2023, Flores released the album Bullerengue Pa'l Mundo on Cartagena record label Heroicos Récords.[1] Some tracks on the album appear in the film La Suprema, in which Flores also acted.[4]
Bullerengue school
[edit]Flores founded a school in María La Baja called the Escuela de Formación Integral Eulalia Gonzáles, where children are taught to sing, write, and perform bullerengue.[2] Initially the school was supported by a United Nations project, and in 2022 it was certified by the Colombian Ministry of Culture, functioning formally as a school since early 2023.[2]
Albums
[edit]- Bullerengue Pa'l Mundo (2023, Heroicos Records)
Notes
[edit]- ↑ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Flores and the second or maternal family name is González.
References
[edit]- 1 2 Gustavo Tatis Guerra (16 June 2023), "El nuevo trabajo discográfico de Pabla Flores: un bullerengue para el mundo" [Pabla Flores' new album: a bullerengue for the world], El Universal (in Spanish), retrieved 23 April 2026
- 1 2 3 4 Valentina Alfonso Guarín (24 February 2023), "¡Pal' lereo, Pabla!: el legado del bullerengue en María La Baja" [Pal' lereo, Pabla!: the legacy of bullerengue in María La Baja], Shock (in Spanish), archived from the original on 17 November 2024
- 1 2 Michelle Serna Esquivel (21 November 2020), "Pabla Flóres, matrona del bullerengue", El Espectador (in Spanish), retrieved 24 April 2026
- 1 2 3 4 Aldair Zamora (10 June 2024), "Pabla Flores, la 'gran maestra del bullerengue'" [Pabla Flores, the 'great master of bullerengue'], El Heraldo (in Spanish), retrieved 24 April 2026
- ↑ Marcos Fidel Vega Seña, "Pal' Lereo Pabla, bullerengue para el mundo" [Pal' Lereo Pabla, bullerengue for the world], Porro y Folclor (in Spanish), no. 29 (July–December 2020), Medellín: Corporación Cultural Recreando, pp. 26–32, ISSN 2248-4647, retrieved 10 April 2026 – via Issuu
External links
[edit]- Pabla Flores discography at Discogs