Claudia Brant
Encyclopedia
Claudia Brant is an Argentina singer and composer of international acclaim. She has composed songs for singers like Il Divo
, Ricky Martin
, Santana
, Luis Fonsi
, Chayanne
, Tito Nieves
, Olga Tañón
, Paulina Rubio
, La Ley
, Gisselle
or Víctor Manuelle
. Claudia also has teamed with composers as famous as the acclaimed David Foster
, Walter A., Noel Schajris
(Sin Bandera
), Gianmarco, Jorge Luis Piloto, Luis Fonsi and Gabriel Flores
.
, Argentina
where she grew up. Influenced by his parents, that listened to a diverse range of music (Frank Sinatra
to Nino Bravo
), Claudia Brant discovered his love for music since the age of six, when he composed his first song.
Professionally, she started composing at 19 or 20 years y started singing in 1991. It was in this year when she won the Festival OTI in Mexico
with the theme ‘¿Dónde estás ahora?’ ('Where are you now? )".
Seeing this, his parents gave him a guitar and started playing it by ear. Then put him in guitar lessons. Then she learned to play bass and piano. Writing verses, however, it was very easy for her. His first experiences in music she lived them in the study. She worked in the recording of jingles and even got a contract with a label. When she was 16 and 17 years, worked in Argentina, writing songs about the typical problems of adolescents. Diego Torres
and Christian Castro recorded his songs. That led him to Los Angeles
, California
. Later, she returned to Buenos Aires, where she studied architecture.
Since 2006 or 2007 she began working with regional Mexican music exponents. Despite all their success, "No me doy por vencido", a song recorded by Luis Fonsi
(and composed by both artists) in 2008, has been the song most successful of Claudia Brant so far . Became an instant, surpassing records of the international musician of Pop - Rock Shakira
and Juanes
. The song, reached # 1 in the United States, Puerto Rico
, Mexico, Spain, Chile
, Bolivia
, Colombia
, Venezuela
, Ecuador
and most of Central
and South America
. She has also released five solo albums that include songs written for other artists.
She composed songs like "Más" (More) by Ricky Martin, "Gritar" (Scream) and "Respira" (Beathe) by Luis Fonsi, "Camina conmigo" (Walk with me) by Haash or "Hasta el final" (Until the end) by Il Volo.
in 1991 and the Festival of Viña del Mar as author and interpreter in 1995. The two songs were sung by her. Songwriter of the Year of latina SESAC in three
consecutive times in America from the period 2006-07. In the 2010, Claudia Brant has been awarded three international awards: the Latin Grammy 2009 (from the Latin Academy of Recording United States) in Las Vegas for his song "Aquí estoy yo" (Here I Am), Hey Prize 2009 (Academy Mexican Music) in Guanajuato
, México
, "No me doy por vencido (No I give up) in the category of Song of the Year, and the title of Songwriter of the Year 2009 awarded by the Monitor Latino Convention in Los Angeles, California.
The latter has received the decision of a broad panel of representatives from radio and the music industry across the United States. To this is added to SESAC Latina Award # 1 in 2009 for his song "Aquí estoy yo
" (Here I Am), that performed by co-author Luis Fonsi
with David Bisbal
, Aleks Syntek
and Noel Schajris
and swept the charts in Latin America
and Spain
, and spent 35 weeks at the top of the Billboard chart in the U.S. She also received two nominations Latin Grammy for the album "Manuscrito (Manuscripts)" in early 2011, for best recording´s engineering and by Best Female Pop Vocal Album .
Il Divo
Il Divo is a multinational operatic pop vocal group created by music manager, executive, and reality TV star Simon Cowell. Formed in the United Kingdom, they are also signed to Cowell's record label, Syco Music...
, Ricky Martin
Ricky Martin
Enrique "Ricky" Martín Morales , better known as Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican and Spanish pop singer and actor who achieved prominence, first as a member of the Latin boy band Menudo, then as a solo artist since 1991.During his career he has sold more than 60 million album copies worldwide...
, Santana
Santana (band)
Santana is a rock band based around guitarist Carlos Santana and founded in the late 1960s. It first came to public attention after their performing the song "Soul Sacrifice" at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, when their Latin rock provided a contrast to other acts on the bill...
, Luis Fonsi
Luis Fonsi
Luis Alfonso Rodríguez López-Cepero, more commonly known by his stage name Luis Fonsi, is a Latin Grammy winning Puerto Rican singer and composer.- Early life :...
, Chayanne
Chayanne
Elmer Figueroa Arce , best known under the stage name Chayanne, is a Puerto Rican Latin pop singer and actor. As a solo artist, Chayanne has released 21 solo-albums and sold over 20 million albums worldwide.-Early life:...
, Tito Nieves
Tito Nieves
Humberto "Tito" Nieves became one of the leading Salsa singers of the 1980s and the early 1990s....
, Olga Tañón
Olga Tañón
Olga Tañón is a two-time Grammy Award and three-time Latin Grammy-winning Merengue and Latin Pop artist. Tañón has earned 5 Latin Grammy Awards and 19 Premios Lo Nuestro awards during her career.-Early years:...
, Paulina Rubio
Paulina Rubio
Paulina Susana Rubio Rue is a Mexican singer and actress. Rubio achieved international stardom with her fifth studio album, Paulina...
, La Ley
La Ley (band)
La Ley was a Grammy Award and two-time Latin Grammy Award-winning Chilean pop rock band formed by Andrés Bobe and Rodrigo Aboitiz with Mauricio Claveria, Beto Cuevas and Luciano Rojas. After a failed first album, Desiertos , they released Doble Opuesto , which appears as the official first album...
, Gisselle
Gisselle
Gisselle Ortíz Cáceres, known simply as Gisselle is a Puerto Rican Merengue singer.-Musical career:...
or Víctor Manuelle
Victor Manuelle
Víctor Manuelle, born Víctor Manuel Ruiz on November 4, 1968 in Bronx, New York, is a successful Latin Grammy nominated Puerto Rican American salsa singer, songwriter, and improvisational sonero, known to his fans as El Sonero de la Juventud...
. Claudia also has teamed with composers as famous as the acclaimed David Foster
David Foster
David Walter Foster, OC, OBC , is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer, songwriter, and arranger, noted for discovering singers such as Michael Bublé, Josh Groban, and Charice Pempengco; and for producing some of the most successful artists in the world, such as Céline Dion, Toni...
, Walter A., Noel Schajris
Noel Schajris
Nahuel Schajris Rodríguez is a naturalized Mexican singer-songwriter and pianist based in Mexico who experienced chart-topping success as part of the duo Sin Bandera until he and fellow singer-songwriter Leonel García concluded their partnership in 2007...
(Sin Bandera
Sin Bandera
Sin Bandera was a Latin pop duo based in Mexico that consisted of Leonel García, and Noel Schajris. They became one of the most popular artists after their debut album "Sin Bandera" was released in 2001.-Biography:...
), Gianmarco, Jorge Luis Piloto, Luis Fonsi and Gabriel Flores
Gabriel Flores
Gabriel Flores was a prominent Mexican painter and muralist born in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Between 1956 and 1993, his murals focused on historical and universal themes, as well as the ability of art functioning as social commentary...
.
Biography
Claudia Brant was born July 21, 1968 in Buenos AiresBuenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
, Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
where she grew up. Influenced by his parents, that listened to a diverse range of music (Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
to Nino Bravo
Nino Bravo
Luis Manuel Ferri Llopis , better known by his stage name Nino Bravo, was a Spanish pop singer.-Early life:...
), Claudia Brant discovered his love for music since the age of six, when he composed his first song.
Professionally, she started composing at 19 or 20 years y started singing in 1991. It was in this year when she won the Festival OTI in Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
with the theme ‘¿Dónde estás ahora?’ ('Where are you now? )".
Seeing this, his parents gave him a guitar and started playing it by ear. Then put him in guitar lessons. Then she learned to play bass and piano. Writing verses, however, it was very easy for her. His first experiences in music she lived them in the study. She worked in the recording of jingles and even got a contract with a label. When she was 16 and 17 years, worked in Argentina, writing songs about the typical problems of adolescents. Diego Torres
Diego Torres
Diego Antonio Caccia Torres , is an Argentine Grammy Award-nominated pop singer and composer.-Biography:Diego Torres was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the son of Argentine singer Lolita Torres...
and Christian Castro recorded his songs. That led him to Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. Later, she returned to Buenos Aires, where she studied architecture.
Since 2006 or 2007 she began working with regional Mexican music exponents. Despite all their success, "No me doy por vencido", a song recorded by Luis Fonsi
Luis Fonsi
Luis Alfonso Rodríguez López-Cepero, more commonly known by his stage name Luis Fonsi, is a Latin Grammy winning Puerto Rican singer and composer.- Early life :...
(and composed by both artists) in 2008, has been the song most successful of Claudia Brant so far . Became an instant, surpassing records of the international musician of Pop - Rock Shakira
Shakira
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll , known professionally as Shakira , is a Colombian singer who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s...
and Juanes
Juanes
Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez , better known as Juanes is a Colombian musician who was a member of heavy metal band Ekhymosis and is now a solo artist. In 2000, his solo debut album Fíjate Bien won three Latin Grammy Awards.Juanes has sold more than 13 million albums...
. The song, reached # 1 in the United States, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
, Mexico, Spain, Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
, Bolivia
Bolivia
Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...
, Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
, Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
, Ecuador
Ecuador
Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...
and most of Central
Central America
Central America is the central geographic region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast. When considered part of the unified continental model, it is considered a subcontinent...
and South America
South America
South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...
. She has also released five solo albums that include songs written for other artists.
She composed songs like "Más" (More) by Ricky Martin, "Gritar" (Scream) and "Respira" (Beathe) by Luis Fonsi, "Camina conmigo" (Walk with me) by Haash or "Hasta el final" (Until the end) by Il Volo.
Awards
She won the OTI FestivalOTI Festival
OTI Festival was an annual singing competition, held between 1972 and 2000, among active member countries of the Organización de Televisión Iberoamericana .- Venues and Presenters :- Winners :-By country:...
in 1991 and the Festival of Viña del Mar as author and interpreter in 1995. The two songs were sung by her. Songwriter of the Year of latina SESAC in three
consecutive times in America from the period 2006-07. In the 2010, Claudia Brant has been awarded three international awards: the Latin Grammy 2009 (from the Latin Academy of Recording United States) in Las Vegas for his song "Aquí estoy yo" (Here I Am), Hey Prize 2009 (Academy Mexican Music) in Guanajuato
Guanajuato
Guanajuato officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Guanajuato is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 46 municipalities and its capital city is Guanajuato....
, México
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
, "No me doy por vencido (No I give up) in the category of Song of the Year, and the title of Songwriter of the Year 2009 awarded by the Monitor Latino Convention in Los Angeles, California.
The latter has received the decision of a broad panel of representatives from radio and the music industry across the United States. To this is added to SESAC Latina Award # 1 in 2009 for his song "Aquí estoy yo
Aquí Estoy Yo
"Aquí Estoy Yo" is a song written by Luis Fonsi, Claudia Brant and Gen Rubin; it was produced by Fonsi and Sebastián Krys for Fonsi's seventh studio album Palabras del Silencio, and it is performed by Fonsi, David Bisbal, Aleks Syntek, and Noel Schajris....
" (Here I Am), that performed by co-author Luis Fonsi
Luis Fonsi
Luis Alfonso Rodríguez López-Cepero, more commonly known by his stage name Luis Fonsi, is a Latin Grammy winning Puerto Rican singer and composer.- Early life :...
with David Bisbal
David Bisbal
David Bisbal Ferré is a Grammy-winning Spanish pop singer. He gained his initial fame as a runner up on the interactive reality television show Operación Triunfo produced by TJ Hall....
, Aleks Syntek
Aleks Syntek
Raúl Alejandro Escajadillo Peña , better known as Aleks Syntek, is a Mexican singer, songwriter and producer. He is married to Karen Coronado, sister of talkshow host Ingrid Coronado.-Biography:...
and Noel Schajris
Noel Schajris
Nahuel Schajris Rodríguez is a naturalized Mexican singer-songwriter and pianist based in Mexico who experienced chart-topping success as part of the duo Sin Bandera until he and fellow singer-songwriter Leonel García concluded their partnership in 2007...
and swept the charts in Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
and Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
, and spent 35 weeks at the top of the Billboard chart in the U.S. She also received two nominations Latin Grammy for the album "Manuscrito (Manuscripts)" in early 2011, for best recording´s engineering and by Best Female Pop Vocal Album .
Personal life
Currently the artist, who is divorced and lives in Los Angeles since 1998, with her twins, a girl and a boy of five years old, dreams of making the crossover into English and record an album in her own voice, playing and recording her greatest hits.Curiosities
- She also has a career as an architect.
- She said her biggest influences are The CarpentersThe CarpentersCarpenters were an American vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of sister Karen and brother Richard Carpenter. The Carpenters were the #1 selling American music act of the 1970s. Though often referred to by the public as "The Carpenters", the duo's official name on authorized recordings and...
, Charly GarciaCharly GarcíaCharly García is a singer-songwriter, pianist and keyboardist from Argentina with a long career in rock music, forming successful groups such as Sui Generis and Serú Girán, cult status groups like La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros, and as a solo musician.-Early years:Charly García was the eldest son in...
, Mercedes SosaMercedes SosaHaydée Mercedes Sosa, known as La Negra, was an Argentine singer who was popular throughout South America and some countries outside the continent. With her roots in Argentine folk music, Sosa became one of the preeminent exponents of nueva canción. She gave voice to songs written by both...
and Brazilian music.
Discography
Claudia Brant in addition of his job as composer, also is singer. These are your records:- ENTONCES VALE LA PENA
- CLAUDIA BRANT
- TU MARCA EN EL AGUA
- POR CAPRICHO
- MANUSCRITO (own versions of songs composed by her but sung by other artists: "No me doy por vencido" (Luis Fonsi), "Invierno" (Reik), "Si no me amas" (Ednita Nazario), "Ni rosas ni juguetes" (Paulina Rubio), etc...)
External links
- http://www.clarin.com/espectaculos/personajes/Claudia-Brant_0_439156333.html Personajes: Claudia Brant
- http://www.discogs.com/artist/Claudia+Brant Composed and produced albums for other artists.