Malaga Carnival goes through several stages throughout its history. It is early in the century when this party has its peak. People looked forward to the arrival of February, and with it a few days of joy, good humor and free rein to the imagination. Waiting anxiously to see Larios street parade and around these sumptuous carriages and carriages lavishly decorated for the occasion, and of course, to see and hear the most prominent character of the time, still remembered after more than sixty years silence, and that 1998 marks the centenary of his birth and 40 years after his death. Is none other than Diego Villalba Jiménez "El Bollero."
With the start of the Spanish Civil War, opening a period of "drought" carnival too long in our city. Franco prohibits Carnival around the country and in all its manifestations. The date that is closest to this disappearance is that of February 3, 1937, in which the Home Office suspended all activities related to the party of Momo.
And so, with songs and costumes stored in the attic, waiting for better times, spent more than forty years, until, in 1978, the Peña Los Angeles, at the hands of its president Manuel Cortés Gallego, the party decides to recover Malaga gave much color in the past. This is when José Manuel Millán, Julian de la Maza, José Romero and Angel Romero (members of the rock), decided to investigate the former Carnival Malaga, collecting data and verses almost disappeared, recovering a party that should never have lost. In this attempt to a resurgence of Carnaval de Málaga born murga "The Maomas without “H”, the starting point of what today is the Carnival we know today.
The group's name is "Los imparables" . It's a wordplay: In spanish, "imparables" means "unstoppable". But "imparables" comes to "no-parado" (no- unemployment = employed)
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