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The copla or copla andaluza (Andalusian copla) is a form of Spanish popular song deriving from the poetic form of the same name. Although the genre has a long heritage it flourished in the 1940s and is epitomized by songwriters Antonio Quintero Rafael de León and Manuel Quiroga. It is also associated with the Catalonian folk-dance the sardana.One of the first singers of coplas was Raquel Meller.