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Spiritual, Sultry, Powerful
The Story Behind the Voice
Vanessa Florez
www.myspace.com/vanessaflorez

Vanessa Florez ~ relax and enjoy the music
~ NOW ON ITUNES

Vanessa Florez Winner of 2 Malibu Music Awards, and honored by Billboard World Music, Top 5 songs out of 100,000 entries in The Independent Music Awards, Mid Atlantic Song Contest Award, Great American Song Contest Award as well as selection for airplay on 700 radio stations worldwide. Available for download on itunes worldwide, rhapsody, napster, eMusic, IMVU, Amazon, lala, Shockhound, and Amie Street.

Vanessa is a native from Tucson, Arizona and grew up among the rich colored mountains and canyons that surround it. Since childhood, she was fascinated by the teachings of Native American Indians at the San Javier Mission festivals and was impacted by the spirituality of the powerful ceremonial dancers.

Vanessa began singing and songwriting as a child and was inspired by the great artists of the 70’s. She auditioned and performed for musicals, choirs and solo contests throughout her childhood and throughout high school - an arts school – where she was the only freshman accepted in a senior jazz group. Vanessa secured many solo positions and earned herself a full
scholarship to Northern Arizona University’s music school.

Instead of pursuing her first love - music - Vanessa attended the University
of Arizona and obtained a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
and Marketing. She pursued a “safer” career in business, predominantly medical sales. But while her education took her to great levels, music
remained in her soul, so in 2001, she returned to her passion of recording and performing and over the next 7 years wrote over 100 songs.

Her first album, Time, sold over 1000 copies and gained local and regional exposure. Time included original material written and produced by Vanessa
and musician Josh Motley.

Her second album, Touch My Soul, brought Vanessa an enormous amount of exposure, giving her credits in opening for bands such as Evanescence, Lit and Juice Newton. The album release party in November in 2003
brought in over 1000 fans, and over 4000 copies of Touch My Soul were
sold at various events in Arizona. Working on her own, Vanessa received
airplay on “The Zone Radio,” made numerous appearances on Arizona’s news channels, secured two covers with Arizona-based magazines, and received numerous reviews in newspaper and web outlets.

Continuing in medical sales but not leaving MUSIC behind, Vanessa relocated to Los Angeles in 2004
in hopes of taking her music to the next level, and her dream to work with the best musicians, and producers in the world. AND SHE DID IT. Here Vanessa collaborated on a project produced by Mikal Blue (producer for Colbie Caillet, Augustana, One Republic, Jason Reeves, Five For Fighting, and even was the first to work with Carrie Underwood, and many others) and Curt Schneider (Five For Fighting), which included one of the best guitarist Andrew Williams and Stings live drummer, also, one of the best drummers, Josh Freeze. “Dream Giver” was one song that came out of the collaboration, which went on to win over 20 national and international awards as well as be in the running for placement for TV and Film. Other songs completed include “Vulnerable,” “Goin’
For A Ride,” “Plays,” “Today” and “Anyway.”

In 2006, Vanessa started working with 3 time Tony Award-winning producer, Doug Besterman, David Wollenberger (Count To Ten, Freshman Show), and Grammy-nominated Jay Weigel (Terrence Blanchard, Lera Auerbach, REM). With these producers she completed several
tracks including the songs “One More,” “Angel,” “This One” and “Take Me Home.”

A true singer/songwriter, Vanessa has the ability to write about innumerable
topics and can easily expand instrumental tracks created by musicians. She has the uncanny ability to sell herself to an audience and has had over 100,000 downloads. In addition to her perfect pitch, she has a natural ability to harmonize and possesses a 4-octave range. Vanessa sings to those audiences who are
looking for songs with meaningful lyrics they can relate to, and sets those
lyrics against a backdrop of luscious, sultry melodies.