Without a doubt, if we look for a famous person connected with Boimorto, it is Luz Casal, even though she only lived in Boimorto for a few months as a baby... today she is, without a doubt, the most famous person from the municipality...

Date of birth: 11/11/1958
Eye colour: brown
Hair colour: black
Website: Luz Casal

The beautiful Spanish singer Luz Casal cannot remember when she started singing, but she does remember her «amazing» performances on top of any table to please her family and friends...

The only daughter of José and Matilde, her family moved to Asturias when she was just six months old. She has almost always performed as a solo artist, apart from a few occasions, such as when she was part of «Los Fannys», a rock covers band. She made up for it by adding the operatic bel canto technique to her musical training.

She swapped Asturian fabada for Madrid's cocido and, in the capital, made the rounds of every record company. An independent producer took an interest in her and sent her to a studio, where she was tried out recording backing vocals. Little by little she worked her way into the music business. From 1977 she threw herself into the world of pop music and began singing more commercial songs. In 1980 she released a single, «El ascensor», and in the autumn of 1981 she recorded her first LP, «Luz». In 1983 she toured all of Spain with Miguel Ríos as part of the show «El rock de una noche de verano».

Her standing as one of the best solo singers in Spain was sealed with the release of the album «Luz V». 1994 was a year of travel for pleasure, but also of work and of preparing new songs, which were recorded and mixed to make up her new album, «Como la flor prometida», released in 1995 after «only» four years of work. After a long break, Luz came back to music in 1999 with «Un mar de confianza», an album whose title, the Galician artist says, reflects her maturity as a performer and as a person.

The singer of such popular songs as No me importa nada, Rufino and Piensa en mí likes to sing about the failure to communicate and about things as important in life as persistence. In short, she has proved to have a great voice for ballads and a special strength in all her performances.

Festival da Luz

Since 2012 Boimorto has hosted the Festival da Luz, born of a collaboration between the Concello (the municipal council) and Luz Casal. The first edition was on 22 and 23 September 2012, with Manolo García, Rosendo, Vega and Dover, among others, and the money raised went to the Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer (Spanish Association Against Cancer).

It is a charity festival for all the family: each year the money raised goes to a social cause, and it mixes very well-known artists with Galician and traditional music groups. In 2026 it held its fifteenth edition.