cuplé

The cuplé was a popular risqué Spanish theatre song style in the late years of the 19th Century.

Initially she sang cuplé, which later evolved in Andalusian and Spanish song into the copla as it is known today.

Por la calle de Alcalá was a popular cuplé describing a florist selling violets on the street.

Spanish actress-singer Sara Montiel sang it in the 1957 box office hit movie El Último Cuplé.

Juan de Orduña would later have an enormous commercial hit with El Último Cuplé (The Final Variety Song) (1957), with leading actress Sara Montiel.

After her unprecedented international hit in Juan de Orduña's 'El Último Cuplé' in 1957, Montiel achieved the status of mega-star in Europe and Latin America.

But in the second decade of the 20th Century the cuplé, in a more respectable form, became more family-friendly and was associated with the makings of stars of the Spanish theatre such as Aurora Jauffret, "La Goya".