--- title: New Google Doodle Honors Iconic Spanish Dancer Lola Flores description: Born María Dolores Flores Ruiz, the celebrated dancer, singer and actress would have been 93 today canonical: https://time.com/4188163/google-doodle-lola-flores-93-birthday/ author: Rishi Iyengar article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-21T04:47:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:29:01.081Z og:title: New Google Doodle Honors Iconic Spanish Dancer Lola Flores og:description: "La Faraona" would have been 93 today. og:url: https://time.com/4188163/google-doodle-lola-flores-93-birthday/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2350f17055db6823/698879f05f570ff9beb1f469/screen-shot-2016-01-21-at-12-36-22-pm.png?branch=production&width=597&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 597 og:image:height: 336 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2016-01-21 at 12.36.22 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: New Google Doodle Honors Iconic Spanish Dancer Lola Flores twitter:description: "La Faraona" would have been 93 today. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2350f17055db6823/698879f05f570ff9beb1f469/screen-shot-2016-01-21-at-12-36-22-pm.png?branch=production&width=597&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # New Google Doodle Honors Iconic Spanish Dancer Lola Flores > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Jan 21, 2016 4:47 AM UTC  Google by [Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Jan 21, 2016 4:47 AM UTC The striking, fiery woman featured on Google’s latest [Doodle](http://www.google.com/doodles/lola-flores-93rd-birthday) is none other than Spanish dancer Lola Flores, who would have celebrated her 93rd birthday on Thursday. Born María Dolores Flores Ruiz in 1923 in the southern Spanish town of Jerez de la Frontera, Flores rose to fame in the 1950s and 1960s as a dancer, singer and actress, not just in her native country but also across Mexico and the U.S. Known as much for her hit songs like “[Pena Penita](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjIiG1xghog)” (Little Sorrow) as her popular nicknames like “La Faraona” (the Pharaoh, a reference to the supposedly Egyptian features resulting from her partial Gypsy heritage), she died in 1995 after a prolonged battle with cancer. Describing her in 1952, TIME [wrote](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,857219,00.html): “Some other dancers have perhaps been more beautiful. 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