Gaby Moreno

Gaby Moreno ( born December 16, 1981 in Guatemala City, Guatemala as Maria Gabriela Moreno Bonilla ) is a singer, songwriter and guitarist. Gaby Moreno sings her influenced by blues, soul and jazz songs in English and Spanish. In Latin America, it was tu early 2012 by the song Fuiste, Ricardo Arjona, the 2011 took up with her, known to a wider audience.

  • 2.1 Singles
  • 2.2 albums
  • 4.1 2009-2010
  • 4.2 2011-2012
  • 4.3 2013

Life

Childhood

From a young age, the music played an important role in their lives. So she sang at the age of two years at family celebrations and since her mother discovered her singing talent at an early stage, they started with five years to take singing lessons. Later, Gaby Moreno sang at festivals Disney songs and ten years old, she performed the opening act for Ricky Martin.

At the age of 14 years, Gaby Moreno heard on a holiday trip to New York a her hitherto unknown style of music, the blues. Around the same time she got from her mother her first guitar as a present and she began to play songs by Jimi Hendrix on it. In the following years she came about the blues and other musical styles such as jazz, folk or R & B, which can be found next to the Latin American influences even today in their songs.

Career

In October 2000, Gaby Moreno moved to deepen their musical education to Los Angeles, where she still lives today. She studied music at the Musician's Institute (MI) in Hollywood, where she met some of her current band members. In 2006, she won with the song Escondidos the prestigious John Lennon Songwriting Contest. In 2008 they released their debut album, Still the Unknown, which contains eight English and two Spanish -language titles. A year later, Gaby Moreno sang the song Smile, composed by Charlie Chaplin in the documentary The Cove ( The Cove ) Louie Psihoyos director, in the category " Best Documentary " has won a 2010 Oscar. In 2010 she received together with Vincent Jones an Emmy nomination for composing the theme song of the NBC television series Parks and Recreation. Moreover, their composition was "Green Horne Man" used in television shows such as " Lincoln Heights ," " Ghost Whisperer" and MTV's "The Hills". A year later, their second album by Gaby Moreno, " Illustrated Songs", which was released in June 2012 in several European countries, including Germany and Switzerland.

Gaby Moreno has given in recent years, numerous concerts in North America and Europe. In August 2009, she was on the U.S. tour of Tracy Chapman in the opening act, then they went with the singer Ani DiFranco on North American tour. In Germany it was the beginning of 2011 in the opening act of Nouvelle Vague. In addition, she went several times with her ​​band on tour in Europe, especially concerts in Germany, France and the Netherlands were on the program.

3 May 2012 Gaby Moreno sang for the 50th anniversary of Amnesty International and Others with Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Lang in Jay Leno's " The Tonight Show." A few weeks later, on 23 May 2012, she performed with as part of the concert "Electric Burma " in honor of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi along with Bono, Damien Rice, Bob Geldof, Angelique Kidjo, inter alia, on.

Her breakthrough in Latin America succeeded in early 2012 with the duet " Fuiste tu", which also dating Ricardo Arjona Guatemala singer. With it, Gaby Moreno joined then in Latin America in numerous concerts as part of his " Metamorphosis World Tour " on. In May 2012 she signed a record deal under the label Metarmorfosis. The first result of this collaboration is the CD " Postales ", which was published on September 4, 2012 as the purely Spanish language album in the United States and Latin America.

On November 21, 2013, it won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Young Performer ( Mejor artista nuevo ).

Influences and musical style

Musically influenced Gaby Moreno of musicians such as Robert Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone and Ella Fitzgerald. In addition, one finds elements in their songs from the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. On their albums, there are different styles. These range from soul, folk, blues, rock, Bossa Nova and tropical music to Latin American influences in their home country Guatemala. On their first two albums Still the Unknown and Illustrated songs, the songs are sung partly in English partly in Spanish. The style of Gaby Moreno recalls singers like Norah Jones, Katie Melua or Rickie Lee Jones.

Discography

Singles

  • 2009: Smile - cover version of the song written by Charlie Chaplin for the Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove " ( " The Cove" )
  • 2010: Quizas - cover version
  • 2012: Ave Que emigration

Albums

  • 2009: Still the Unknown
  • 2010: A Good Old Christmas Time ( EP)
  • 2011: European release of Still the Unknown
  • 2011: Illustrated Songs
  • 2012: European publication of Illustrated Songs
  • 2012: Postales

Awards & Nominations

  • 2007: John Lennon Songwriter Award for the song Escondidos
  • 2010: Emmy Award nomination for Best theme music ( Outstanding Main Title Theme Music ) for Gaby Moreno and Vincent Jones for the composition of the theme song of the NBC television series "Parks and Recreation".
  • 2010: Los Angeles Women In Music Comet Award
  • 2010: Favorite American Latino Indie Artist
  • 2012: Nomination Latin Grammy Awards for " Record of the Year " for the song " Fuiste Tu" with Ricardo Arjona
  • 2012: Nomination Latin Grammy Awards for " Song of the Year " for the song " Fuiste Tu" with Ricardo Arjona ( songwritter )
  • 2013: Latin Grammy Award for " Mejor Artista Nueva " ( Newcomer of the Year )

Tour

2009-2010

  • U.S. tour as the opening act for Tracy Chapman
  • 2009/2010: North American tour with Ani DiFranco
  • July 2010: Tour of Germany (including Konstanz, Heidelberg, Ravensburg ) and France

2011-2012

  • January / February 2011: " European Tour " with concerts in Germany, Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands
  • August / September 2011: " European Tour " with concerts in Germany, France and the Netherlands
  • September / October 2011: Joint tour with " The Milk Carton Kids" by the United States and Canada
  • February 2012: several concerts in France
  • Spring 2012: Joint concert performances in Latin America Ricardo Arjona as part of his " Metamorphosis World Tour"
  • June 2012: appearance on " The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno on the 50th anniversary of Amnesty International, among others with Kris Kristofferson.
  • May / June 2012: concerts in Ireland ( "Electric Burma " in honor of Aung San Suu Kyi along with Bono, Damien Rice, Bob Geldof, Angelique Kidjo and others), Germany, France and London ( with Van Dyke Parks )
  • July 2012: tour in France, among others, at festivals in Le Havre, Verdun and Paris.

2013

  • Ricardo Arjona tour ( Metamorphosis Tour )
  • Tour with Hugh Laurie & The Copper Bottom band

Worth mentioning

  • With the title of the album Illustrated Songs Gaby Moreno plays in the 1920s and 1930s. At the time, film reels were not very long and therefore often had to be changed. Thus, the audience is not bored, they showed little slide shows accompanied by music. This type of demonstration called " Illustrated Songs".
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