Ely Guerra is a Mexican singer-songwriter who was born in Monterrey

Monterrey

Monterrey , is the capital city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León in the country of Mexico. The city is anchor to the third-largest metropolitan area in Mexico and is ranked as the ninth-largest city in the nation. Monterrey serves as a commercial center in the north of the country and is the...

, Nuevo Leon

Nuevo León

Nuevo León It is located in Northeastern Mexico. It is bordered by the states of Tamaulipas to the north and east, San Luis Potosí to the south, and Coahuila to the west. To the north, Nuevo León has a 15 kilometer stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border adjacent to the U.S...

, Mexico

Mexico

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Biography

The daughter of Alberto Guerra

Alberto Guerra

Alberto Guerra López is a Mexican football manager and former striker. He played for Club Deportivo Guadalajara throughout his career.-Playing career:...

 (former Chivas de Guadalajara coach) and Gloria Vázquez, Ely lived the first few years of her life in Monterrey, where she was born, before moving to San Luis Potosí

San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí

San Luis Potosí, commonly called SLP or simply San Luis, is the capital of, and most populous city in the Mexican state of the same name. The city lies at an elevation of 1,850 meters...

 and then to Guadalajara

Guadalajara, Jalisco

Guadalajara is the capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco, and the seat of the municipality of Guadalajara. The city is located in the central region of Jalisco in the western-pacific area of Mexico. With a population of 1,564,514 it is Mexico's second most populous municipality...

, due to her father's work. It was in Guadalajara where she first discovered her passion for music. At the age of fifteen, the young Ely Guerra decided to follow her dreams and look for opportunities in Mexico City

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

. It was there that she received a contract

Contract

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 with BMG

BMG

Bertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008. It was established in 1987 to combine the music label activities of Bertelsmann...

. Two years later, she released her first self-titled album

Album

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 Ely Guerra and made her professional debut as a singer in 1992. However, the album was not very successful.

Ely Guerra later left BMG and signed a contract with another record label. With EMI

EMI

The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...

, she released "Pa' Morirse de Amor" in 1997, along with the hit singles "Peligro" and "Angel de Fuego"; and "Lotofire" in 1999, which was edited in the United States

United States

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 by Higher Octave

Higher Octave

Higher Octave is a sub-label imprint of Narada Productions, which is part of EMI's Blue Note Records label group, located in New York.Higher Octave was founded in 1986 as an independent record label specializing in a wide variety of uplifting music, including smooth jazz, New Age music, Latin music...

. She also released the LP "4" in 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...

 and 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...

, which contained a compilation

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 of the albums "Pa' Morirse de Amor" and "Lotofire", as well as her most recent production, titled "Sweet & Sour, Hot y Spicy" released in 2004.

Throughout her successful career, Ely Guerra has collaborated

Collaboration

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 with artists including Sussie 4

Sussie 4

Sussie 4 is an electronic music duet from Guadalajara, Mexico, formed in 1998. The band is part of the electronic music scene, mainly in the house music style...

, Control Machete

Control Machete

Control Machete is a Mexican hip hop group from Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. Its members are Fermin IV , Patricio "Pato" Chapa Elizalde, and Toy Kenobi .-History:...

, José Fors

José Fors

Fors Ferro, José Alberto is a Mexican singer and artist best known as the leading member of the bands Cuca and Forseps.-Biography:...

, Fratta, 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...

 and Quem, and has also participated in the soundtrack

Soundtrack

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s for the films Amores perros

Amores perros

Amores perros is a 2000 neorealist Mexican film, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Amores Perros is the first movie in Iñárritu's trilogy of death, and was followed by 21 Grams and Babel. It is a triptych; an anthology film, sometimes referred to as the "Mexican Pulp Fiction," containing...

, De la calle, and Vacas vaqueras. In addition, her picture next to Julieta Venegas

Julieta Venegas

Julieta Venegas Percevault , known professionally as Julieta Venegas, is a Mexican singer, songwriter, instrumentalist and producer, who sings pop-rock in Spanish. She speaks English, Portuguese, and Spanish fluently. She has a twin sister, Yvonne, who is a photographer...

 appeared on the cover of Time magazine, introducing them as the most promising performers in the Mexican rock

Mexican rock

Mexican rock music, often referred to in Mexico as rock nacional , originated in the 1950s with covers of standards by Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley and The Everly Brothers, among others, bands such as Los Rebeldes del Rock, Los Locos del Ritmo, Los Crazy Boys, Los Nómadas, and Javier Bátiz soon arose...

 scene. Her latest album "Sweet & Sour, Hot y Spicy", released in 2004, contained the hit singles "Ojos Claros, Labios Rosas" and "Quiéreme Mucho."

Ely Guerra is currently recording a new studio album which will be released in Mexico in early 2008.

On October 18, 2007, Ely sang along with 30 Seconds to Mars

30 Seconds to Mars

30 Seconds to Mars is an American rock band from Los Angeles, formed in 1998. Since 2007, the band has consisted of actor Jared Leto , Shannon Leto and Tomo Miličević...

 on the MTV Music Awards Latin America 2007, in Mexico, the song "From Yesterday".

As Ely Guerra

• "Ely Guerra" (1995)
• "Pa'Morirse de Amor" (1997)
• "Lotofire" (1999)
• "Sweet & Sour, Hot y Spicy" (2004)
• "Hombre Invisible
  Hombre Invisible
  Hombre Invisible is the 5th studio album recorded by Mexican singer-songwriter Ely Guerra, released by her own label Homey Company. The album won a Latin Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 2010.- Track List :...
  
  " (2009)

External links

• Ely Guerra Official Web Site
• http://elyguerra.us[fan site]
• http://www.myspace.com/elyguerra[myspace]