- Famous Spanish Song singer
- Suffers of an advanced stage of Alzheimer's disease, which was diagnosed in 2009. She had to abandon abruptly the hosting of "Cine de barrio" in 2010 due to the disease. She was substituted on hosting duties by Concha Velasco.
- Sister of José García Galisteo.
- In 2022, her son announced that his mother's Alzheimer's was already at such an advanced stage that she did not recognize him and could not remember her artistic career.
- Sevilla began her career in 1942 as a dancer thanks to Estrellita Castro.
- In 2012, she was announced to be in a "very advanced stage" of Alzheimer's disease, with which she was diagnosed three years earlier. In 2015 it was reported that she no longer recognized her home.
- This Spanish actress, singer and dancer began her career in the 1940s and became one of the most popular and highest paid stars of Spanish cinema until the 1970s.
- At the time of her death, she was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema and from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
- As an actress, she had leading roles in numerous films, including Imperial Violets (1952), Academy Award nominee Vengeance (1958), Don Juan (1956) and Searching for Monica (1962). She also had supporting roles in English-language epic films including King of Kings (1961) and Antony and Cleopatra (1972).
- In 2015, she went to live in a nursing home in Aravaca, Madrid.
- She also presented the broadcast of the New Year's clock bell strikes live from Puerta del Sol in Madrid once on each of the three networks, being the only person to have done so on all three networks.
- In 1991, at the age of sixty, she began her career as a television presenter, working for the three major Spanish networks until her retirement in 2010.
- She released numerous albums, with many songs composed by her then husband Augusto Algueró, including coplas, boleros and tangos, and performed them on stage and television.
- In January 2004, she received the 2003 Medal of Honour bestowed by the Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos.
- She received in 2001 the 'Gold Medal of Merit in Labour' and the 'Hija Predilecta' of the Province of Seville in 2007.
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