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María Olvido Gara Jova 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 Francoist Spain. 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.
Birth Name
Olvido Gara Jova
Born
Thursday, 13 June 1963
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Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Benidorm Fest | Self - Host | 2022 |
Mi adorado Monster | Self | 2021 |
Drag Race España | Self - Guest Judge | 2021 |
La noche D | Self - Guest | 2021 |
Mask Singer: Adivina quién canta | Self - Hada | 2020 |
Terror y feria | Self | 2019 |
Empowered | Alaska | 2018 |
Maestros de la costura | Self - Guest | 2018 |
Ella es tu padre | Alaska | 2017 |
Dani & Flo | Self - Interviewee | 2017 |
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Benidorm Fest | Self - Host | 2022 |
Mi adorado Monster | Self | 2021 |
Drag Race España | Self - Guest Judge | 2021 |
La noche D | Self - Guest | 2021 |
Mask Singer: Adivina quién canta | Self - Hada | 2020 |
Terror y feria | Self | 2019 |
Empowered | Alaska | 2018 |
Maestros de la costura | Self - Guest | 2018 |
Ella es tu padre | Alaska | 2017 |
Dani & Flo | Self - Interviewee | 2017 |
MasterChef Celebrity | Self - Guest | 2016 |
En la tuya o en la mía | Herself | 2015 |
Stand by Me Doraemon | Adult Shizuka | 2014 |
Viajando con Chester | Self - Guest | 2014 |
MasterChef | Self - Guest | 2013 |
Buenas noches y Buenafuente | Self - Guest | 2012 |
Jaime Urrutia: La fuerza de la costumbre | Self / Herself | 2011 |
Tu cara me suena | Self - Guest / Self - Musical Guest | 2011 |
Vida loca | Alaska | 2011 |
Museo Coconut | Alaska | 2010 |
Fame, let's dance! | Self - Musical Guest | 2008 |
Papitour | Self | 2007 |
Miguel Bosé: Papitour | Herself - Singer | 2007 |
La que se avecina | Terapeuta de Maite | 2007 |
Editor of Illusions | Bom | 2005 |
Channel nº 4 | Self - Guest | 2005 |
80s | Self | 2005 |
Alguna pregunta més? | Self | 2004 |
Els matins a TV3 | Self - Guest | 2004 |
Gran Casal, me como el mundo | Self / Herself | 2003 |
Los Serrano | Alaska | 2003 |
Operación triunfo | Self - Guest | 2001 |
Cuéntame cómo pasó | Self | 2001 |
Policías, en el corazón de la calle | Self - Musical Guest | 2000 |
Periodistas | Alaska | 1998 |
Airbag | Jugadora Timba | 1997 |
Sólo se muere dos veces | Lucrecia | 1996 |
La cuarta parte | Bruja Truca | 1985 |
La edad de oro | Self - Guest | 1983 |
Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom | Bom | 1980 |
Arrebato | Chica con la tarta / Cake Girl (archive footage) | 1979 |
Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez | Self - Contestant | 1972 |