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PICKED UP MY FIRST GUITAR WHEN I WAS SIX FOR THE AMUSEMENT OF MY DAD´S FRIENDS, LATER HE WANTED ME TO BECOME A CLASSICAL MUSICIAN BUT AFTER LONG STUDY I BECAME A SONG WRITER. MY COMPOSITIONS ARE ROOTED IN THE CLASSICAL GUITAR TRAINING, INFLUENCES: LATIN-AMERICAN RYTHMS, BOSSA NOVA, AND JAZZ, ALONG WITH A RECENT PASSION FOR OUR OWN FOLK ROOTS. AFTER THE CONSERVATORY OF MADRID I STUDIED AT THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS, COMPOSED MUSIC FOR MOVIES, ANIMATIONS, CONTEMPORARY DANCE. RETURNED HOME AND RECORDED MY FIRST ALBUM, PARADOX. WORKED FOR A YEAR (2003) WITH RENOWNED FOLKLORIST ELISEO PARRA AT THE NATIONAL CLASSICAL THEATRE, WHERE I PERFORMED AS A MUSICIAN AND ACTRESS. JUST RELEASED THE CD URBAN LULLABIES (HARMONIA MUNDI, JUNE 2007) A VERY ORIGINAL CD CONTAINING DRUG INSTRUCTION ADVICES SINCE IT WAS MEANT TO BE SOLD IN PHARMACIES AS A MEDICINE...but... THE COMPANY HAS NOT INVESTED ANY PROMOTION NOR CONCERTS SO I DECIDED TO TRY LUCK GOING TO NEW YORK FOR A WEEK TO PERFORM IN A COUPLE OF SMALL CLUBS OF MANHATTAN. I LEFT A CD AT THE OFFICES OF THE BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC (OCT 2007) NOW I AM BOOKED TO PERFORM NEXT 11TH OF OCTOBER 2008 WITH MY NEW BAND AT THEIR PROGRAM NEW VOICES FROM SPAIN!!
"THERE IS NOBODY RE-ARRANGING OLD SPANISH FOLK IN SUCH AN ORIGINAL STYLE..."URBAN LULLABIES" IS A PIECE OF ART THAT WILL TRASCEND BEYOND FASHIONS"
-J. Cambria, El Mundo-