Singer
Santiago de Chile, 1981.
Claudia was born and raised by a 100% musical family; she has inherited rythms and harmonies from the South American folklore.
She has participated in Festivals, South American and Aymara folklore Encounters since she was 12 years old, hand in hand with “Grupo Alturas” and “Manka Saya”.
When she was 14, she joins her first gospel band, singing in different seminars, congresses, and events across Chile.
She has studied singing, and choir direction at the Santiago de Chile’s Teatro Municipal; and general pedagogy at the Metropolitan University of Education Science (UMCE), between years 1999 and 2004.
When she was 23, she moved to Vitoria-Gasteiz, where she learns socio-cultural and community services (social integration, social and community dynamization) that allow her to actively collaborate with the associative movement while having music as a strategy in the interventions; Munduko Arrozak, Plataforma de Mayores, Asociación cultural y deportiva Goian, Aulas de Tercera Edad, and Gauekoak, among others.
Along these 14 years, she has participated in a dozen music projects, sharing stage with great musicians, singers, and awesome people, as are: Daniel Ortega, Raul Vera, Iker Barrientos, Virginia de la Casa, Alfonso Junguitu, and a long list of people she admirates and is grateful to.
In 2016, she is invited by Blas Fernández (baterist) to join his band; she performs at Sala BBK (Bilbao) and Escuela de Música Andrés Isasi (Getxo), presenting the record URBANETNIKO, together with great personalities of the Spanish national panorama (José Luis Canal, Ángel Unzu, Rober Caballero, and Raúl Huelves.)
In 2017 and 2018 she delivers a series of pedagogic concerts, within the program of summer activities Musika Bai!, addressed to scholar kids, and managed by Vitoria-Gasteiz city council.
In September 2017, she joins Goizargi Gospel Choir, directed by a prestigious Catalan musician, Ramón Escalè; a year after, she is invited to join the Arteta Gospel College’s teachers team in Baracaldo, together with Txato Martín and Carla Sevilla.
