She was the queen of Paral·lel and one of the city’s most iconic celebrities. For four decades, she worked as a singer and dancer in theatres such as El Molino, Apolo, Pompeia and the Victoria. She also performed at the famous Folies-Bergère cabaret in Paris. She arrived in Barcelona with her family at a very young age, and prior to filling theatres, she worked in a toy factory and in an embroidery workshop.
At the age of 17, she began her artistic career as a tango dancer at the Royal Cabaret, a café-concert hall on Av Paral·lel. Shortly afterwards, now under the stage name of “Bella Dorita”, she began to sing couplés (a risqué Spanish theatre style in the late 19th century) at the Sala Apolo and the Pompeia. From the 1940s to the 1960s, she was the city's most emblematic cabaret singer and dancer. Away from the Paral·lel, she collaborated in revues with Mary Sampere, Alady and José Sazatornil. In 1965, tired of fighting against the censorship of the Franco dictatorship, she decided to retire from show business. In 2001, at the age of one hundred, she was awarded the City of Barcelona Medal for Artistic Merit. Today, a square in front of El Molino is named after her.
A cabaret singer and dancer, she was one of the most iconic artists on Paral·lel for more than four decades and performed in El Molino, the Apolo, the Pompei and the Teatre Victòria.