Biography
Born in Venezuela, singer/songwriter/guitarist Irene Farrera merges her Latin American roots with the dynamic pulse of her adopted region in the northwestern United States. While growing up in Caracas and Valencia, she cultivated her abilities by taking up the cuatro at age nine and classical guitar at eleven.
Upon relocating to the US more than twenty years ago, she carried forward a strong pride in her background and launched into performances of material drawn from across Latin America as well as her homeland. That body of work featured Mexican rancheras, Venezuelan joropos, and pieces by notable Latino songwriters such as Brazil's Tom Jobim, Argentina's Carlos Gardel, and Cuba's Silvio Rodriguez.
From her earliest days, musicians attuned to her expansive view of Latin American music responded warmly, among them Charlie Byrd, whose stage she shared in one of her first professional engagements. Following her recorded debut on the 1995 album Alma Latina and two subsequent releases on her own imprint, she issued her fourth album, Soy De Ti, through Lektronic Soundscape in 1999.
Upon relocating to the US more than twenty years ago, she carried forward a strong pride in her background and launched into performances of material drawn from across Latin America as well as her homeland. That body of work featured Mexican rancheras, Venezuelan joropos, and pieces by notable Latino songwriters such as Brazil's Tom Jobim, Argentina's Carlos Gardel, and Cuba's Silvio Rodriguez.
From her earliest days, musicians attuned to her expansive view of Latin American music responded warmly, among them Charlie Byrd, whose stage she shared in one of her first professional engagements. Following her recorded debut on the 1995 album Alma Latina and two subsequent releases on her own imprint, she issued her fourth album, Soy De Ti, through Lektronic Soundscape in 1999.
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