 Both brothers, Pastora and Tomás, together with singer Manuel Torre, were the inspiring models for the next generation of singers like Antonio Mairena, Pepe de la Matrona or Fosforito, who led the movement towards the revival of traditional forms in the decades of the 50s-70s.Born in the famous quarter of Alameda de Hércules, in Seville, she started singing for the public as at the age of 8, in the Seville Spring Fair.Later, when she was singing at Café de la Marina, a café cantante in Madrid, she acquired the nickname "La Niña de los Peines" ("The Girl of the Combs", a nickname she never liked), as she usually sang a stanza in tangos style with the following lyrics