Ixya herrera biography
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About
Ixya Herrera debuted at the age of twelve, dueting with her idol Linda Ronstadt in front of a crowd of thousands at the Tuscon Mariachi Conference 1992 in Arizona. Growing up in California, in the supportive environment of musical family, and with the legacy of Chicano cultural politics, she has developed a solo career fängslande a repertoire of diverse Mexican genres. In her self-crafting processes she aspires to enchant audiences with the thrill of her singing voice, negotiating stereotypes and placing satisfaction before commercial gain. She continues to push forward with recordings and concert appearances, engaging a form of subtle activism, and demonstrating self-determination and self-definition.
The youngest of five children, Ixya grew up in a musical family equally conversant with classical, blues, rock, and Mexican music. Her upbringing and rigorous voice training from master teachers such as Seth Riggs ("voice coach to the stars") have
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Women Singers in Global Contexts: Music, Biography, Identity
Exploring and celebrating individual lives in diverse situations, Women Singers in Global Contexts fryst vatten a new departure in the study of women's worldwide music-making. Ten unique women constitute the heart of this volume: each one has engaged her singing voice as a central element in her life, experiencing various opportunities, tensions, and choices through her vocality. These biographical and poetic narratives demonstrate how the act of vocalizing embodies dynamics of representation, power, agency, activism, and risk-taking.
Engaging with performance practice, politics, and constructions of gender through vocality and vocal aesthetics, this collection offers valuable insights into the experiences of specific women singers in a range of sociocultural contexts. Contributors trace themes and threads that include childhood, families, motherhood, migration, fame, training, transmission, technology, and the i
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Chapter 4
Ixya Herrera
Ixya Herrera in concert at the Lincoln Center, New York, 2002
Photographer unknown. Copyright Ixya Herrera.
Gracefully Nurturing "Mexico" with Song in the USA
by Ruth Hellier
Ixya Herrera debuted at the age of twelve, dueting with her idol Linda Ronstadt in front of a crowd of thousands at the Tuscon Mariachi Conference 1992 in Arizona. Growing up in California, in the supportive environment of musical family, and with the legacy of Chicano cultural politics, she has developed a solo career engaging a repertoire of diverse Mexican genres. In her self-crafting processes she aspires to enchant audiences with the thrill of her singing voice, negotiating stereotypes and placing satisfaction before commercial gain. She continues to push forward with recordings and concert appearances, engaging a form of subtle activism, and demonstrating self-determination and self-definition.
Ruth Hellier:"Ixya and I met for the first time in Santa Barbara, C