At the age of eight, she made her film debut, playing a small, unbilled role in El día que nací yo, a 1991 vehicle for star Isabel Pantoja.
[1] In 2001, Papá Levante was awarded Premio Ondas as the best new Spanish music group[2] and her performances in their 2003 album, Sopla levante, with its two noted singles, "Comunicando" and "Gorda" also met with success, as did the 2005 album, Pa ti, pa mí, with the hit first single, "Chiquilla".
Her first solo album, Agua y luz, includes six songs by Carlos Sanlúcar, and versions covered by Salif Keita, Quique González, Lila Downs and Luis Pastor.
In 2007, Gala Évora was cast in the title role of Miguel Hermoso's film, Lola, a biographical portrait of Spain's famed Romani singer, dancer and actress Lola Flores,[3] which gained her a Goya, Spain's equivalent of the Oscar, nomination as Mejor Actriz Revelación [Best New Actress] and a Spanish Cinema Writers Circle Awards nomination as Premio Revelación [Best New Artist].
The following year she was chosen for a role in Pilar Távora's film adaptation of Santiago Escalante's play Madre amadísima.