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She was born in Pamplona, where she studied and finished the classical guitar and the lyric singing careers with Carmen Arbizu and Roberto Olabarrieta respectively, getting excellent qualifications, prices and honor degrees.
She studied several years with the classical guitarist Miguel Esparza, the jazz guitarist Arthur Bernstein and the flamenco guitarist Carlos Itoiz. Now she studies new stiles to improve her career.
Daughter of musicians, her mother won the Duero Festival (Oporto´s song Festival) in 1968 and her father was representative and pioneer of the flamenco music in countries like Japan, Lebanon, Libya, etc. With a long curriculum, her father is active still today, playing with artists like Mikel Laboa in their tours. Married with John Kelly, founder member of The Kelly Family, band with over 15 million albums sold, is now her manager and producer, together with her. These and other influences have been enriching her knowledge all these years as a singer, instrumentalist, producer and composer. |
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She started singing as a soloist in different groups, like the big Orfeón Pamplonés, the antique music group Vaghi Concenti, the chamber choir Coral de Cámara de Pamplona, performing in many festivals in Spain and out of Spain. She sang with the big and famous Orfeón Donostiarra, supporting them in the recording of two CDs. |
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Independently, she is outstanding in her interpretations of works like the “Sta. Cecilia´s ode” of Händel, Vivaldi´s Magnificat, Scalatti´s Stabat Mater, Mozart´s Krönungs Messe, C Messe and Stabat Mater of Schubert, etc, etc. In operas like Purcell´s Dido and Aeneas, Rameau´s The Princess of Navarra, Donizetti´s “La Favorita” in the rol of Ines, Bellini´s “La Sonnambula” playing Lisa, Verdi´s “Il Trovatore”, Noye´s Flude of B. Britten, under the direction of conductors like Kamal Khan, Jorge Rubio, Miquel Ortega, etc, and together with singers as important as Maria José Moreno, Silvia Tro, Rodrigo Esteves, Paolo Pechioli, etc. She played the leading role of Arrieta´s “El Grumete”, different works of contemporary composers, premieres, solo recitals most of them accompanied by the San Sebastian´s pianist Pedro J. Rodríguez Larrañaga, etc.. |
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In the last several years, she has been performing in different countries of Europe and in America. TV and radio appearances, several benefit galas, recitals, festivals like the Santander´s , “Quincena Musical of San Sebastian”, which had a great success of public and critics, or the Youth Festival in Bosnia, |
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with over 10.000 people, though her type of audience embraces all ages … Some of These concerts have been live retransmitted in radio. She got the scholarship awarded by Juventudes Musicales in the lied course directed by Wolfram Rieger. Nowadays, she is being coached in Germany by Arthur Janzen.
She has collaborated in the recording of several CDs and now, she´s just released her first solo CD with orchestra with a selection of the most representative arias of Giacomo Puccini. |
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Right now she is promoting her new CD though the media and preparing performances and projects in different countries. Recently, she had several performances with the International Symphony Orchestra of Dortmund under the direction of Mr. Arkady Berin and a benefit recital in Berlin together with the Hungarian pianist Thomas Meggyes, with great success of critics and public. |
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