Cristina Llanos
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| Birth name | Cristina Llanos Fayos |
| Also known as | Cristina |
| Born | 3 December 1975 |
| Origin | Madrid, Spain |
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| Years active | 1992–present |
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| Website | Official website |
Cristina Llanos Fayos (born 3 December 1975) is a Spanish musician, singer, guitarist and songwriter. She was the lead vocalist and principal songwriter of the Spanish rock band Dover.[1]
Biography
[edit]She attended Virgen de Europa School in Boadilla del Monte, and she left it after repeating the course at 18 years old. After living six months in London, she worked in clothing stores that her mother run in a mall of Majadahonda. She is the younger sister of Amparo Llanos, guitarist and band leader of Dover, who influenced her by teaching her to play the guitar and introducing her to bands like The Beatles, R.E.M. or Nirvana.
She began her career in 1992 with her sister Amparo and Jesús Antúnez. They found a bassist (Alvaro Díez) and recorded the album "Sister", which was a great disappointment, selling only 700 copies. Two years later, they released "Devil Came to Me" with which they got a remarkable success of sales, 800,000 copies. In 2006, "Follow the city lights" was released, turning its music genre to electronics.[2] A few years later, the album "I Ka Kené" was published and had a strong influence of African sounds.[3] In February 2015, they released a new album, "Complications", with which they returned to their origins of rock.[4][5]
Cristina was responsible for most of the lyrics of the group.
Discography
[edit]Dover
[edit]- Sister (1995)
- Devil Came to Me (1997)
- Late at Night (1999)
- I Was Dead for 7 Weeks in the City of Angels (2001)
- The Flame (2003)
- Follow the City Lights (2006)
- I Ka Kené (2010)
- Complications (2015)
References
[edit]- ^ Gómez, Maite (21 November 1997). "Entrevista a Cristina Llanos" (in Spanish). El País.
- ^ González, Adaya (7 October 2006). "El renacer de Dover" (in Spanish). El Mundo.
- ^ Manrique, Diego A. (17 September 2010). "No hay historia más extraordinaria que la de Dover" (in Spanish). El País.
- ^ Bianciotto, Jordi (21 May 2015). "No pretendemos volver a 1997" (in Spanish). El Periódico.
- ^ Pérez, Lucas (24 February 2015). "Dover sigue siendo novedad" (in Spanish). El Mundo.
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- 1975 births
- Alternative rock guitarists
- Alternative rock singers
- Spanish guitarists
- Spanish women guitarists
- Spanish rock singers
- Spanish women rock singers
- Spanish women singer-songwriters
- Spanish singer-songwriters
- Living people
- Musicians from Madrid
- Dover (band)
- 21st-century women musicians
- English-language singers from Spain