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MADRID - A Spanish court has sentenced popular Spanish folk singer Isabel Pantoja to two years in jail after convicting her of money laundering.
Sevilla-born Pantoja is regarded as Spanish singing royalty with a huge following in the Spanish-speaking world.

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SPANISH singer and convicted money launderer Isabel Pantoja has been cleared at her latest trial.

A Malaga court has found her not guilty in a case of ‘punishable insolvency’ over the sale of her plush Marbella villa.

The prosecutor had asked for her to be jailed for three years. In 2014 she had been sentenced to two years jail and ordered to pay a €1.1 million fine for her part in the infamous Malaya corruption case in Marbella.

Sevilla-born Pantoja is regarded as Spanish singing royalty with a huge following in the Spanish-speaking world.

In 1983 she married bullfighter Francisco Rivera Pérez ‘Paquirri‘. The romantic image of the Romany singer marrying the heroic bullfighter entrenched her in the Spanish consciousness.

But tragedy struck on September 26, 1984 when he died in the bullring.

Pantoja became known as ‘Spain’s widow’ in the media. She has remained a favourite subject for gossip columns and has rarely been off the screen since.

Pantoja has released more than a dozen albums and has toured Spain and Latin America extensively over the years.

But her image was se

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Interview: Rafael Manjavacas
José María de Llobet

We're speaking to Manuel Fernández, Catalonian flamenco singer, about his new recording «Por Arte de Magia» which includes Arabic rhythms, tributes to artists such as Marelu, Las Grecas and los Chichos, some lyrical songs and a reinterpretation of the hymn «Lo Bueno y lo Malo» of Ray Heredia.

“Por Arte de Magia” will be presented at Barcelona’s Sala Apolo next April 30th.

For the first time at Deflamenco.com, we are including the audio of an interview, along with some pieces from Manuel Fernández’ record, as part of the Audio-Blog we inaugurated a few days ago. You can listen to it here:

Where are you from Manuel?

I was born in Barcelona and raised in Badalona, although I was half the time in Seville, and the other half in Badalona. My family is from Andalusia, between Málaga and Seville, I’m a mixture of Catalonian and Andalusian.

In your bio it says you debuted at the age of 6.

Those are my earliest musical memories, at a festival in Pueblo Nuevo they put me up on stage and I sang a song of Las Grecas wh

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