Concha Buika

Buika in 2008, photo by s_bukley/Bigstock.com

Birth Name: María Concepción Balboa Buika

Place of Birth: Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain

Date of Birth: 11 May, 1972

Ethnicity: Equatorial Guinean [Bubi]

Concha Buika, also known as Buika, is a Spanish jazz and flamenco singer of Equatorial Guinean descent.

Concha Buika was born in Palma de Mallorca, the daughter of Honorina Buika Belope and Juan Balboa Boneke, political exiles, who arrived in Spain in 1969. Her father was born in Rebola, Spanish Guinea, now Equatorial Guinea, and was a writer and politician. Her brothers are Guillermo Balboa, who is the mayor (alcalde) of Alaró, Mallorca, and actors Armando Buika and Boré Buika. Her uncle was politician and footballer Armando Balboa Dougan.

Concha Buika’s parents were Bubi, an ethnic group from Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea. She grew up in a majority Romani neighborhood in Palma de Mallorca, where she learned to sing Flamenco.

She is related to the Balboa family, an important family in Equatorial Guinea. She likely has ancestry from the Fernandino peoples.

Concha Buika has a son with her former husband, musician Abraham Moughrabi.

One of Concha Buika’s grandmothers was named Kitailo.

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