Olvido Gara
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Alaska in 2016
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Olvido Gara Jova June 13, 1963 Mexico City, Mexico |
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| Years active | 1977–present |
| Home town | Madrid, Spain |
| Spouse(s) | Mario Vaquerizo (1999 and 2011-present) |
| Parent(s) | América Jova Godoy Manuel Gara López |
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María Olvido Gara Jova (born June 13, 1963 in Mexico City) better known as Alaska is a Spanish-Mexican singer, DJ, and television personality famous in Spain and Latin America. She was one of the founding members of the La Movida Madrileña, the cultural and artistic movement that followed the end of the Spanish Franco dictatorship. This movement, in which music, the arts, cinema and fashion erupted and collided to show what Spain had become under Franco. She has participated, since the late 1970s, in several music groups: Kaka de Luxe 1977, Alaska y los Pegamoides 1980, Alaska y Dinarama 1983, and since 1989, the Spanish electropop band, Fangoria. Today, Alaska continues to perform and has become an icon of 1980s Spain.
Alaska was born in Mexico City, Mexico on June 13, 1963. Her father, from Asturias, Spain, was in Mexico living in exile during the Spanish Civil War along with her Cuban mother, who also living in Mexico in exile from Castro. In 1973, a few years before Francisco Franco died, her parents decided to move to Spain, settling in Madrid.
Alaska was a big fan of artists such as Lou Reed or T-Rex,but David Bowie was her biggest influence. She even told her mother that she would love to be a boy just so she could be gay. The birth of punk also had a big influence on the young Alaska, who soon decided to form a band. She went to El Rastro, a famous flea market in Madrid, looking for band members, where she met Nacho Canut and Carlos Berlanga.
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