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Erica García, born in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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, Argentina

Argentina

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, is a composer, singer and an actress of Argentinian-American descent. She has been nominated for a Latin Grammy in 2000 for Best Female Rock Artist for her popular tune "Vete Destino".

Musical career

García began her solo career in 1996 after 3 years of playing in Mata Violeta, the punk rock band she created in 1991. She made three records for Universal, the first one was produced by Ricardo Mollo, the second one (nominated for the Latin Grammy) was produced by Garcia herself and Ricardo Mollo and the third record Amorama, was produced by Gustavo Santaolalla

Gustavo Santaolalla

Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla is an Argentine musician, film composer and producer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Original Score in two consecutive years, for Brokeback Mountain in 2005 and Babel in 2006.-Life and career:...

. She played and recorded in the Los Angeles musical collective Fool's Gold

Fool's Gold (band)

Fool's Gold is a Los Angeles collective that weaves together Western pop aesthetics with African rhythms and melodies. The group started as a side project of musicians Luke Top and Lewis Pesacov , who set out to explore their shared love of various forms of African music ,...

. She recorded and produced her fourth album ¨Afternoon in Bamboos¨ in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, 2006.
She went back to her country Argentina in 2010. She started the recording of the album ¨Eleven¨ to be released in 2011.
She organized the Santo Bombo parties, with bombo legüero performances, dancers, tattoo artists, and electronic music.
She played the Hot Festival in October 2010, with Massive Attack, Scisors Sisters, Yeasayer and Mika among other artists.
She currently lives in Buenos Aires and she plays shows all over the country.

Collaborations

Garcia collaborated with the band Divididos, on ukulele and accordion in¨El Burrito¨ and ¨Sisters¨, she served as the guest musician ( 1992 to 1998) with Brazzaville in two albums. She performed with Cafe Tacuba, Ely Guerra, Los Tres y Javiera Parra at the MTV Latin awards in Los Angeles, 2002.
Her other collaboration include Cienfuegos
Hecuba
Montecarlo Jazz Ensemble
Pampa del Indio
Andrea Alvarez
Fool's Gold

Solo

El cerebro (1997) Producer : Ricardo Mollo http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00005LNOX

Musicians:

Erica Garcia

Martin Aloe

Alejo Vintrob

Max Araujo

Ervin Stutz

Fabian Von Quntiero

La bestia (1998) Producer: Erica Garcia and Ricardo Mollo

Musicians:

Erica Garcia

Martin Aloe

Fernando Samalea

Ricardo Mollo

Ervin Stutz

Matias Zapata

Amorama (2001) Producer: Gustavo Santaolalla

Musicians:

Justin Meldhal Johnsen

Jon Brion

Victor Indrizzo

Roger Manning Jr.

Joe Gore

David Campbell

Sebastian Escofet

Javier Casalla

Gustavo Santaolalla

Tributes

"Through the Wilderness" Maddona Tribute http://music.barnesandnoble.com/Through-the-Wilderness-A-Tribute-to-Madonna/e/634457195226(Manimal Vinyl) 2006 http://nogoodforme.filmstills.org/blog/archives/soundtracks/2.html
"Tributo a Sandro", "Quiero llenarme de ti" 2000 http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,888337,00.html

Awards

Latin Grammy Nomination, 2000
Premio Gardel 1999 Nominacion, Mejor Artista de rock
Premio Gardel 2002 Nominacion
MTV Latin awards nominee
Best female singer, Rolling Stone Latin America 2000, 2001, 2002
Best New Artist, 2000, awarded by Diario Clarin
Clarín (newspaper)
Clarín is the largest newspaper in Argentina, published by the Grupo Clarín media group. It was founded by Roberto Noble on 28 August 1945. It is politically centrist but popularly understood to oppose the Kirchner government...
One of the 20 women of the year, 2000, awarded by Diario Clarin

Film and TV career

"The Treasure of the Black Jaguar" (2010) directed by Mike Bruce: as "Carmelita"."Franco Buenaventura" (2002) as "Gisela".

External links

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