Sonsoles Espinosa
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Sonsoles Espinosa Díaz (b. November 8, 1961) is the wife of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the President of the Government (Presidente del Gobierno, essentially Prime Minister) of Spain. She was born in Ávila, the daughter of a military officer (Rafael Espinosa Armendáriz), and received a law degree from the Universidad de León. She met Rodríguez Zapatero in León in 1981. They married on January 27, 1990 and have two daughters named Laura (b. 1993) and Alba (b. 1995).
Sonsoles is a classical singer and music teacher, and several times she stated she loves singing soft rock music. While living in León, she was a member of the city's prestigious university choir and used to be a music teacher for 7 to 9 graders at one of León most prestigious schools called Leonés, located in the square Plaza de San Isidoro. Since moving to Madrid she has kept active singing, mostly filling as a soprano substitute for the Royal Theatre and more recently with the choir of the government owned Spanish TV Channel RTVE.
In 2003, she gave an interview to the diary "La razón" and some of her opinions about abortion generated a lot of controversy, mainly from right-wing tank groups. She said abortion should be legal in all the countries and that "those who don't understand this are people from the XVIII century"; some important politicians aknowledged being from the XVIII century (Ibarra, for example, a member of her party) so she finally regreted having said that.
