Singer Manolo Escobar, whose "Y Viva Espana" became a best-selling single during Spain's transition from dictatorship to democracy in the mid-1970s, has died. He was 82. By Associated Press Singer ...

Singer Manolo Escobar, whose best-selling track Y Viva Espana became part of Spain's cultural identity in the 1970s, has died aged 82. Escobar died at home in the town of Benidorm surrounded by his ...

“Manolo Escobar was our Elvis Presley of the rumba” (or Spanish folk dancing) – a columnist wrote in Spain’s ABC newspaper. And although Escobar was best-known internationally for his “Y Viva España”, ...

IT was ‘Y Viva España’ at a Workington school as they celebrated European Languages Day. Pupils at St Gregory’s Catholic Primary School turned their attentions to Spain and looked to the colourful ...

The man who made Y Viva España the soundtrack to Spanish holidays in the 70s has died at the age of 82. Manolo Escobar’s 1973 version of the hit coincided with the country’s tourist boom and was sung ...

Spanish singing legend Manolo Escobar, who helped make the musical homage to his homeland “Y Viva Espana” an international hit, has died at the age of 82. Hugely popular with Spaniards and tourists at ...

Escobar sang in 2010 when Spain's football team won the World Cup Singer Manolo Escobar, whose best-selling track Y Viva Espana became part of Spain's cultural identity in the 1970s, has died aged 82.

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Escobar sang in 2010 when Spain's football team won the World Cup Singer Manolo Escobar, whose best-selling track Y Viva Espana became part of Spain's cultural identity in the 1970s, has died aged 82.