# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pepita-embil
# Generated: 2026-09-01T12:12:31.232Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pepita-embil"
name: "Pepita Embil"
slug: "pepita-embil"
description: "Josefa \"Pepita\" Embil Echániz was a Spanish Basque soprano who starred in zarzuela and operetta productions throughout Spain and Latin America. Known as the \"Queen of Zarzuela,\" she is especially remembered for her son, the internationally famous operatic tenor Plácido Domingo, whose early career she helped to nurture. Embil began her professional career singing as a soloist in choirs, including the Basque national choir, Eresoinka, which based itself in France during the Spanish Civil War. While still in her twenties, she appeared in the world premieres of several new zarzuelas. She collaborated with some of the most prominent Spanish composers of the 1940s, including Federico Moreno Torroba, Jacinto Guerrero, and Pablo Sorozábal. In late 1948, she moved to Mexico with her baritone husband, Plácido Domingo Ferrer. In Mexico they ran a successful zarzuela company of their own, which toured throughout the Americas. Over the course of her career, Embil made several recordings, primarily of zarzuela music."
tagline: "Basque Mexican singer (1918-1994)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pepita_Embil_-_Soprano_and_mother_of_Placido_Domingo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1918-02-28"
deathDate: "1994-08-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.501766666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "پپیتا امبیل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پيپيتا امبيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepita_Embil"
    title: "Pepita Embil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepita_Embil"
    title: "Pepita Embil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepita_Embil"
    title: "Pepita Embil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepita_Embil"
    title: "Pepita Embil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepita_Enbil"
    title: "Pepita Enbil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepita_Embil_Etxaniz"
    title: "Pepita Embil Etxaniz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepita_Embil"
    title: "Pepita Embil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8336441"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump