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Antonia Rodríguez Molina, known professionally as Laventa, is a Spanish singer and dancer of flamenco music. She is noted as a pioneer of the new flamenco movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
She was born in Seville in La Venta de la Ranilla, the place from which she acquired her nickname and stage name "Laventa". She began her career dancing in the tablaos of Seville. In 1968, she danced at the La Cochera tablao and the following year she moved to the best tablao in the city.
In 1972, she debuted as a singer at the Los Canasteros tablao, a place where her voice was heard by many artists, including Lola Flores, who invited her to work at her tablao and be the closing act of her show.
In 1975, she was chosen Miss Madrid in a beauty pageant where Lola Flores was a member of the jury and awarded her the beauty queen sash. Blanco y negro magazine wrote: "Antonia Rodríguez Molina, from Seville, twenty years old, brunette and also beautiful. She's something like a woman [from the paintings] of Julio Romero".
She signed a recording contract with Spanish CBS record label and recorded three studio albums, Al compás del viento, Valles y barrancos, and El amor que se va.