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| Julieta Venegas |
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"I don't consider myself pretentious; I'm always joking that I'm actually a pop girl. I like pop, and I don't think I'm that pop, but I think the songs that I do... anyone can listen to them."
-Julieta Venegas
| Date of Birth: November 24, 1970 |
| Birthplace: California |
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| A multi-Latin Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, Julieta played with Mexico's biggest names before going solo and embarking on an explosive international career, even writing music for movies. Her music has been compared with that of Bjork and Fiona Apple in its aggressive bid to push creativity forward. |
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| The accordion has never been as sexy as when Julieta coddles it on her lap and belts out scalding-hot Mexican rock. This multitalented singer with musical influences as diverse as burrito fillings is so hot that other stars of world music line up to collaborate with her. |
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Born a California girl on November 24, 1970, Julieta Venegas grew up in the tequila-laced border town of Tijuana, the only one of five children who dedicated herself to music. At only 8 years of age, Julieta was hopping between voice lessons, music theory classes and piano and cello lessons, whether in the elite Escuela de Msica del Noroeste, or in Southwestern College in San Diego.
She got her first band experience as a teenager in the group Chantaje, which evolved into Tijuana No!, a ska-punk combo that Julieta soon quit, since the predictability of the sound bored her.
Yet before flying solo, Julieta wrote "Pobre de Ti," a song that put the band on the Mexican music map and Julieta on everyone's "to watch" list. Writing music for plays that were featured on Monterrey's biggest stages attested to Venegas' precocious feel for sound.
But Julieta got tired of sleepy beachside towns and took to the world's biggest city, Mexico City, where she met soon-to-be megastars Caf Tacuba, a band that pushed her into her own stardom, which came slowly. At first she became an accordion player for the band Lula, then her fame picked up amid La Milagrosa, a trio with heavy hitters Jorge Fratta and Rafa Gonzlez. With a knowing nod to the real power in the band, the group renamed itself simply Julieta Venegas.
1996 thrust Venegas' into mainstream pop when she signed with BMG Ariola records and kited over to L.A. to record her debut album, Aqu, in which she sang and played piano and the accordion. Julieta is not one to forget her roots and influences; almost everyone she had worked with in the past took part in the album. |
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