Amalia Ramírez

Her father, Ramón Rafael Ramírez, was an infantry commandant (approximately lieutenant colonel and her mother was Ana Sánchez del Campo Rubio.

[2] The carlist movement and her father's death put the family into a difficult financial situation, which motivated Amalia to develop her musical career.

[2] Ramírez had offers to join several opera companies, but instead chose to pursue a career in zarzuela,[2] a genre that was experiencing a rebirth as part of the Romantic era.

In the following years, she acted in works such as Catalina, Mis dos mujeres, Guerra a muerte, Marina, La hija del regimiento and Llamada y tropa.

His politics obliged their emigration during the Spanish Restoration in 1874, which gave Amalia the opportunity to perform in the operas of Corsi in Milan, Gayarre, Patierne and Algdighieri in Bolonia and Verger in Paris.