María Dolores Castellón Vargas, known artistically as Dolores Vargas "La Terremoto" (Barcelona, 16 May 1936-Valencia, 7 August 2016), was a Spanish flamenco and Catalan rumba singer.
When she was young she moved to Madrid where The Calderón Theatre became her artistic cradle. With her brother Enrique (better known as El Príncipe Gitano) she sang her first songs: Penas de la gorriona, Málaga bella, among others. She came from a musical family, another of her brothers is the guitarist Juan José Castellón Vargas and she was a first cousin of the guitarist Sabicas.
She participated in numerous special television shows, including A la española, directed by Valerio Lazarov for TVE in 1971. It was a musical show that also had as guests Lola Flores, Rosa Morena, El Príncipe Gitano, Maruja Garrido and Salvador Dalí, among others. The show was awarded a prize in New York by the " Association of Show Business Critics", after seeing a whole year of programming on the Spanish-speaking channels.
She reached popularity with songs such as Achilipú, A tu vera (which was later performed by Lola Flores, but was written for Dolores), Tío, tío, tío, tío, La Moto, Porom Pompero, La Piragua, Macarrones and Se va a Covadonga. La Terremoto is considered a very versatile flamenco artist, who also flirted with Catalan rumba.
She lived her last years in Chirivella (Valencia) where she died in the General Hospital of Valencia on the 7th of August 2016.
