LOLA ÍNDIGO

Miriam Doblas Muñoz (born 1 April 1992), known professionally as Lola Índigo, is a Spanish singer and dancer. She rose to fame in 2017, when she participated in series nine of the Spanish reality television talent competition Operación Triunfo. She was the first participant to be eliminated from the talent show. After exiting the show, the singer signed with Universal Music and released her debut single “Ya No Quiero Ná” which turned into a smash-hit in Spain, peaking at number three on the PROMUSICAE musical chart and selling more than a hundred thousand copies. It was certified as three times platinum. Her short but intense musical career has earned her multiple awards such as an MTV Europe Music Award for Best Spanish Act in 2019.

Doblas was born in April 1992 in Madrid but was raised in Huétor-Tajar, a small town in the province of Granada. She became interested in fine arts at an early age, highlighting her facet as dancer and choreographer. She worked as a dance teacher and took part in some musicals. In 2010 she entered the Spanish dance television competition Fama Revolution where she was the fourth to leave. Later on, she was also the back-up dancer for A-list artists like Chris Brown, Miguel Bosé, Enrique Iglesias, Marta Sánchez, The Baseballs and more outside Spain, most concretely in China, where she lived for three years, and in Los Angeles, where she took singing classes and undertook more professional training.

In July 2017 she auditioned for Operación Triunfo, a music talent television contest that aired on La 1 after a six-year hiatus. The show began in October 2017 and became a media phenomenon in Spain. Its YouTube channel received over 561 million views from October to February 2018 and became the most commented space on Twitter in Spain surpassing Game of Thrones. After it ended, some of the contestants became instant national celebrities.

In October 2017, the singer entered musical reality show contest Operación Triunfo. She left on the third week, coming sixteenth. After she left the contest, she did some concerts in Barcelona and Madrid, where she also played music as an amateur disc jockey. In January 2018 she performed in her first official concert at the Sala Prince in Granada which sold-out. She sang OT2017’s hymn “Camina” at the 2018 Premios Forqué in Zaragoza, a professional film and television awards, alongside her fellow competitors. Universal Music offered Doblas to form a musical group with three other OT competitors that was meant to be named “Delta”, which she declined after no songs worked for this project. Doblas co-headlined a 23-date arena concert tour with her fifteen companions from the talent show from March to December 2018. The tour, named OT 2017, (en concierto) was attended by over 300,000 people and visited Spain’s largest indoor arenas and stadiums like the Palau Sant Jordi and the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium. In September 2018 she took part in a television competition of celebrity impersonations Tu Cara Me Suena, where she came fourth. In December she sang the Coca-Cola’s Christmas campaign jingle “El Mundo Entero” alongside Aitana, Ana Guerra, Raoul Vázquez and Agoney.

In June 2018, Doblas announced her stage name “Lola Índigo”. Lola Índigo, however, was first announced as a supergroup formed by Doblas and four dancers: Mónica Peña, Saydi Lubanzadio, Laura Ruiz y Claudia Riera. This band would mix singing and dancing with a mix of trap, reggueton and funk. On 20 July 2018, she released her debut single “Ya No Quiero Ná” through Universal Music. The song, produced by Belgian musician Bruno Valverde in Segovia, became an instant hit in Spain thanks to its contagious rhythm and feminist lyrics. It debuted at number three on the PROMUSICAE chart, with this being its peak position. The music video for “Ya No Quiero Ná” had a very low budget; was filmed at the Juan Carlos I park in Madrid with an urban and very careful aesthetic in which dance is the protagonist. It received over a million views in one day. As of April 2020, the song has been certified three times platinum. Universal Music expanded her single contract in order to release her debut studio album. In November 2018 she embarked on her first solo tour called “Índigo Tour” which began on 3rd November in Granada and ended on 23 March 2019, in Toledo comprising 17 of concerts in total.

Thus, throughout 2018 she started shaping her debut studio album. In December she released her second single “Mujer Bruja” which features Mala Rodríguez. The track peaked at number six in Spain. There she announced that her album would have a “witch theme”. That same month she collaborated with multiple artists on the remix of Yera’s “Borracha” and also released the “Ya No Quiero Ná” remix featuring Joey Montana and Charly Black. In the beginning of 2019 she collaborated with Movistar+ and dance television competition Fama a Bailar and sang the theme song “Fuerte” for the show’s 2019 edition. She also worked there as a regular coach and performed a couple times. In April she collaborated with Mediaset and sang the main song for the 2019 film Lo Dejo Cuando Quiera, which turned to be “El Humo”. These two songs were both released as promotional singles of her debut album. Later that month, she released “Maldición” featuring Colombian rapper Lalo Ebratt. On 17 May 2019, her album Akelarre (Basque for “witches’ sabbath”) was released after multiple delays. It debuted at the top position of the Spanish charts. Its respective tour began on 4th May at the FIBES Conference Center in Seville and ended on 30th November in Girona comprising 33 concerts.

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