Pabla Flores
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18 March 1955
Pabla Flores | |
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| 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.
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
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
- Bullerengue Pa'l Mundo (2023, Heroicos Records)