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Andrea Vega

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

About Me

A devotee of music from a very young age, Andrea moved to London at age 19 and there, after meeting Slovakian soprano Agnesa Tothova, fell in love with the art of classical voice and began studying under the highly regarded voice teacher. At the end of a six month stint in England, she moved back to the States, and then after a brief interim, the part Colombian adventuress left to go live in South America for a few months. Her experiences with the art infused culture and native musicians there left an indelible mark and deepened her passion for singing in other languages and creating music with multi-cultural influences.
Upon returning to the States, she became inspired with the idea of moving to California, and at the beginning of 2006, transplanted herself to Los Angeles. Driven to continue her vocal training, she went in search of a teacher and it was then that she was led to vocal coach extraordinaire, Michael Goodrich, a master teacher of Speech Level Singing (developed by Seth Riggs).
The 22 year old Midwestern native currently resides just outside of The City of Angels and is in the process of writing and recording her first EP.
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Biographie

Eine Liebhaberin der Musik seit der frühen Kindheit ist Andrea als Neunzehnjährige nach London umgezogen, wo sie die bekannte slovakische Sopranistin Agnese Tothova kennenlernte. Andrea verliebte sich in die klassische Musik und studierte dann mit Agnese. Nach sechs Monaten in London zog sie zurück in the USA, und kurz danach entschloss sich die halbkolumbianische Abenteurerin, ein paar Monate in Südamerika zu wohnen. Ihre Erlebnisse mit der künstlerisch reichen Kultur und den einheimischen Musikern dort machten einen großen Einfluß auf sie und vertieften ihre Leidenschaft, in anderen Sprachen zu singen und Musik mit einem multikulturellen Touch zu schaffen.
Nach ihrer Rückkehr in die Staaten kam die Inspiration, nach Kalifornien umzuziehen. Anfang 2006 siedelte sie nach Los Angeles um. Stark motiviert, weiteres Stimmtraining zu bekommen, suchte sie einen Lehrer und fand dann den ausgezeichneten Stimmtrainer, Michael Goodrich, einen Meister des Speech-Level-Singens (von Seth Riggs entwickelt). Die Zweiundzwanzigjährige aus dem Mittelwesten wohnt zur Zeit in der Nähe von Los Angeles, wo sie ihre erste EP schreibt und aufnimmt.
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Biografía

Una joven devota de la música, Andrea se fue a Londres a la edad de 19 años. Ahí después de conocer a una cantante de opera eslovaca llamada Agnesa Tothova, Andrea se enamoró del arte de la voz clasica y comenzó a estudiar bajo la tutoría de esta reconocida maestra. Al final de seis meses de haber vivido en Inglaterra Andrea regresa a los Estados Unidos y después de un breve tiempo su parte colombiana le permitió vivir aventuras en Sudamerica por unos meses. Sus experiencias con el arte le infundieron cultura y musicos natives lo cual le dejo una indudable marca e hizo más fuerte su pasión por cantar en otros lenguajes
Cuando ella volvió a los Estados Unidos ella llega a ser inspirada con la idea de irse a vivir a California y en el comienzo del 2006 se establece en Los Angeles. Convencida de continuar su entrenamiento vocal ella se fue en busca de un maestro y asi fue entonces que ella fue guiada por un extraordinarío entrenedor, llamado Michael Goodrich, un maestro de discurso “Speech Level Singing” (Nivel de Canto desarrollado por Seth Riggs).
La nativa del Medio Oeste de 22 años actualmente vive afuera de la ciudad de Los Angeles, y esta en proceso de escribir y grabar su primer EP.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/18/2007
Band Website: You can email Andrea at: [email protected]
Influences:

On a daily basis...

Blue skies. Rainy days. Coffee. White chocolate macadamia cookies. My mum & dad. Speaking in funny voices. Smiles. Shoes. Flowers. Bart Simpson. Laughter. String quartets. Inside jokes. My friends. Politics. Daydreams.

Music...

Agnesa Tothova, Mozart, Marian Anderson, Vivaldi, The Beatles, Bach, Stephen Sondheim, Eartha Kitt, Ella Fitzgerald, Andrea Bocelli, Adam Guettal, Edith Piaf, Tchaikovsky, Zucchero, Stephen Schwartz, Zucchero, Ennio Morricone, etc, etc...

Literature...

Madame Bovary. Anna Karenina. Vanity Fair (the book, not the magazine), Discovering Your Genius. Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Da Vinci Decoded. Soul of a Citizen. Love Poems From God. Dead Man Walking. War and Peace, Sense and Sensibility. Letters to A Young Poet. Any of Shakespeare's works.

Film...

Amelie. Top Secret. Cinema Paradiso. Casablanca. Pretty Woman. Malena. Breakfast at Tiffany's. Water. Il Postino. My Country My Country. My Fair Lady. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. The Notebook. Man Under Fire. Chocolat. An American in Paris. The Big Lebowsky. Usual Suspects. Sword Fish. Zoolander. Wedding Crashers. La Vita è bella.





League for the Blind and Disabled Charity Event
Sept '07

Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Shovels, Bart Simpson, and snail assassins

Is it just me? Or is time flying by at a frightening rate! All of sudden it's summertime and with it the balmy breezes, buzzing bees and aggravating influx of snails. Yes. Snails. These slow moving cr...
Posted by Andrea Vega on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:59:00 PST

"Why Im Fleeing South Africa" by Anne Paton

WHY I'M FLEEING SOUTH AFRICA by Anne Paton (widow of Alan Paton)(London Sunday Times)I am leaving South Africa. I have lived here for 35 years, and I shall leave with anguish. My home and my friends a...
Posted by Andrea Vega on Fri, 02 May 2008 10:05:00 PST

Bienvenue!

Hello fair friends!Welcome to my messy page. I've been such a procrastinator about putting stuff up. I really do promise to get my act together and start posting more tunes, photos and other fun stuff...
Posted by Andrea Vega on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:11:00 PST