María del Monte

María del Monte Tejado Algaba (born 26 April 1962 in Seville, Andalusia) is a Spanish folk singer and TV and radio hostess. She's most known in Spain as "La Reina de las Sevillanas" (The Queen of the Sevillanas). María del Monte was born on 26 April 1962 in Seville, Andalusia. In 1982 won a TV contest show in Ceuta and thereafter released her first album. With the second one titled Cántame sevillanas being a hit in Spain and achieved triple Platinum disc (thirteen in her long career). In this album there's her most famous single: Cántame.

Also has worked in several TV and radio programs. In 1993 hosted Vamos juntos in Canal Sur Radio and three years later in Antena 3 in Al compás de la copla. In 1998 she appeared in TVE in a special TV-Show Esa copla me suena and Especial Feria de Abril.

She was linked romantically with another spanish singer, Isabel Pantoja, for several years. And now is the wife of the journalist Inmaculada Casal.