- Spanish singer.
- She was the presenter of the TV program Bienaventurados on Canal Sur.
- In 2018 she received the Grupo Prisa Radiolé award for her entire career.
- During the 80s she continued recording and releasing albums at a frenetic pace (one album every two years), which positioned her on the national and international scene as one of the most prominent rumberas (singers of Spanish music style rumba).
- She has edited her biography and taken part in several films and sitcoms like Todos los hombres sois iguales (1996).
- In February 2013, at age 63, she was diagnosed with primary breast cancer. She underwent surgery in June of that same year to remove a tumor and began chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment. After three years of fighting, in 2016 she announced that she was completely cured.
- She excitedly collected the Medal of the City of Seville in May 2021.
- She was outspoken on the issue of piracy and participated in the 2002 'Day Without Music' protest.
- At age 15, she migrated to Barcelona to work as a housemaid.
- In 2019 she was urgently admitted to the San Rafael Hospital in Cádiz to undergo surgery for a problem in the digestive system from which she quickly recovered.
- Her career was relaunched in 2002 when she collaborated in the song La lista de la compra with the group La cabra mecánica and released Donde más duele with songs by Joaquín Sabina.
- The artist has become an icon against abuse. In November 2022, she presented her foundation in favor of the fight against gender violence, publicly showing her own personal experience in order to make this social scourge visible. The María Jiménez Foundation wants to offer a space of refuge and protection for women who suffer this type of violence. The objectives focus on helping women victims of gender violence and the LGTBI community in addition to providing scholarships and helping new artistic talents.
- She had a child, María del Rocío in a previous relationship, who later died in a traffic accident in 1985. María was just sixteen years old.
- She started to perform in tablaos (= place where flamenco shows are performed) first in Barcelona and then in Madrid as "Maria La Pippa" and recorded her first album in 1976, with arrangements by Paco Cepero. The album included rumbas, tangos, bulerías, boleros, rancheras and ballads by Silvio Rodríguez, Lolita de la Colina or Amancio Prada.
- At the age of seventeen she became pregnant and had her daughter Rocío, who was born in 1968. She never revealed the name of the father, a man who did not want to know anything about either of them, which forced her to raise her daughter alone .
- In his deathbed, María's father revealed her that she her family were Gypsy. He had rejected his racial heritage after María's grandfather to lose his own wife (María's grandmother) in a card game. Gypsy singers at those time accepted her as one of them since the beginning of her carrier.
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