Valentina Hernández «La de Sabinosa»

Valentina Hernández came from Sabinosa, in the El Hierro municipality of La Frontera, and is preserved in memory as a reference point for the island's oral and musical tradition. The available sources agree on her link with Herreño songs and dances, although they do not provide a single exact birth date.

Her voice was recorded in materials connected with the Antología del Folklore Musical de España and in recordings from the 1970s published as Cantes y Bailes Herreños. That repertoire, associated with lullabies, songs and local dances, made her memory a point of reference for performers, families and researchers of island folklore.

Her birth date is kept here as approximate because the consulted secondary sources vary between 1889 and 1891. Her death is reduced to 1976, a datum supported by La Fonoteca, while a primary or institutional source for the exact day and month remains to be located.