·BIOGRAPHY (ENGLISH)

BIOGRAPHY


Juana Rodriguez, (Rome, 1979) Jazz singer and actress ,born in Italy grown up in Chile and Spain and at present rooted in New York , begins going to singing classes at the age of 8 ; that’s when she took her first steps in Music.

Influenced since she’s 10, but with her own style, by Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Nina Simone, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald in modern singing and classically by Kiri Te Kanawa,Sumi Jo,Cecilia Bartoli,Victoria de los Angeles, Mirella Freni,Renata Scotto,listening to them all on her record-player at home.

In 1988 she starts devoting herself exlusively to the training of her instrument; the voice, by exploring different styles within "BLACK MUSIC"; jazz soul blues funk r&b bossa and "OPERA", giving always priority to jazz and opera.

Musical studies, of modern and classical voice,musical language, directed audition, harmony, music lessons in group, piano, duoble-bass, drums, percussions, history of classical and modern music etc... at

Schools like:

-The “Academia de Canto Alicia Puccio” Academy - 1988 - 1992 CHILE
-The “Escuela de Musica” school - 1992 - 1994 CHILE
-The “Projazz” school - 1994 - 1996 CHILE
-The “Escuela de Musica de Santiago” school - 1996 - 1998 CHILE
-The “Escuela Moderna de musica” school - 1998 - 2000 CHILE
-The “Escuela de Musica Juan Pedro Carrero” school - 2000 - 2005 ESPAÑA
-The “Escuela de Musica Taller de Musics” school - 2000 - 2006 ESPAÑA

Pupil of great musicians , Ricardo Salas,Alejandra Cruz,Ana Maria Meza ,Patricia Herrera, Susana Domenech, Jose Quilapi, Arlette Jequier, Leonardo Botaiolli,Maria Luz Martinez, Micaela Giorgianni, Susana Dunk.,Teresa Vergara, Luisa Garcia, Josep Maria Vilaseca, Pamela Montori,Carlos Uguet, Beatriz Bodenhoffer, Osvaldo Rodriguez, Juan Chamorro, Jordi Vidal, Samuel Rossi, Maria Lur, Nuno Torres, Ramon Civit, Alberto Cabello, Esther Faura, Ana Finger, Vicenc Soler, Errol Woiski.

Singer with classical and modern education, she partecipated in various internacional and nacional seminaries with Susana Domenech,Jay Clayton,Sheila Jordan,Susana Dunk,Irina Capriles, Nuria Oller, Anabel Dominguez, Mark Withers,Leonor Castillo,Teresa Vergara, Pamela Montori,Josep Maria Vilaseca,Nestor Kornblum, Michele Averard, Diego Muñoz, Eduardo Santoro, Ester Bonal, Elisabet Sanchez Caroz, BArry D´Souza, David Ballesteros,Teresa Verganza, Pedro Lira, Luisa Garcia Prieto,Teresa Gimeno Gomez, Stephen Langridge, Josefina Bernal, Albert Gumi, Queralt Prats, Peter Annear, Liz Jhonson,Xavier Moreno, Joan Vives.

Partecipations in courses:

-"La Musica y las personas"
(“Music and people”)
-"La vision del musico comunitario.Mas alla de la partitura"
(“The vision of the communitary musician. Over the score”)
-"La musica y las necesidades especiales"
(“Music and special needs”)
-"Los estudios de COMMUNITY MUSIC: dos modelos representativos"
(“The studies of COMMUNITY MUSIC: two representative models”)
-"Entonacion para el sistema de manejo energetico de la voz"
(“The intonation for energetic handling of the voice”)
-"Sonido, color y movimiento"
(“Sound, colour and movement”)
-"Tecnicas de respiracion"
(“Breathing techniques”)
-"El sonido como vehiculo de la transformacion personal"
(“The sound: a vehicle of personal transformation”)
-"Canto armonico"
(“Harmonic singing”)
-"La ciencia de diapasones"
(“ The science of diapasons”)
-"Escucha Activa"
(“Active listening”)


During 1999 she intensively travels around Europe making contacts and musical artistic activiteis. After this experience, in 2000 she decides to settle in Barcelona-Spain, in order to enforce her musical studies.

Winner of the FONDART price of MUSIC in Chile,year 2006 and scholarship to live in Newyork and work on the Scat-improvisation method, with the Jazz singer Jay Clayton.


Outside the musical territory she is Actress of MOVIES DUBBING.



Concerning Musical, Theatrical and Vocal activities she partecipated in shows and projects such as:

-Singing performing, at the
Los Leones de Santiago theatre with a program of modern repertory.

-Vocal recordings for TV commercials and dubbing of voices.

-Voice dubbings for Charlie Brown cartoons.

-Theatre performings with the theatrical Company ¨PRIMULAS¨

PLAYS:

¨Dos Locos Experimentos y Cierta Muñeca¨ (Two crazy experiments and a kind of a doll)

¨Si te contara lo que me paso en el Sur¨(If I told you what happenned in the south)

¨El Malabarista¨(The juggler)

¨Wahhh..... genial¨(Wow, that’s great)

-Monologues with the chilean Actor Paolo Conti.

-Performings at a Jazz club of Chile with a group called Grupo Azulado. Jazz Repertoire.

-Concerts for Cd launching;
¨Que tu ser sea bienvenido al mundo¨(Be welcome on earth) by Ramuntcho Matta. Museum of Bellas Artes of
Santiago,with the jazz-fusion group of Pedro Greene Orrego.

-Several concerts with jazz quintets in various concert halls of Spain; Jamboree, Harlem Jazz, Los Tarantos..etc,and singer of important Jazz Jam sessions.


-Vocal trainer, professor of modern and classical singing, of singers, musicians, actors, poets ,professors, announcers, enthusiasts.

-Professor of actors for vocal technique, phonobreathing, vocal coordination,diction, vocal lean, capacity, vocal articulation, lean, voice emission , vocal colocation, resonance, projections of speaking sound,volume and intensity, interpretation of sound in speaking.

- She realized several musical projects in computing, edition and composition for producers in Movies and Music.


-Collaborations with the Producers "Over Film", making music for documentaries and theatrical projects, as well as for short films.

-Vocal recordings in Electronical Music with Dj Elastico.



In june of 2006, launches her first Jazz production "Speak Low" ,recorded at the sudios of Albert Moraleda and edited under same brand , acompanied by great musicians; Joan Chamorro at Baritone sax, Agata Palencia at Piano, Drums with Alberto Cabello , and Double bass with Nuno Torres.


In the record you can listen at jazz standards such as "Round Midnight" by Thelonious Monk, "My Romance"by Richard Rodgers or "All of me" by Seymour Simons, as well as Bossa nova themes such as"Desafinado" by Antonio Carlos Jobim and "Samba triste" by Baden Powell.

In september of 2006, she travels to New York in order to promote it and to continue increasing her artistical carreer.


Her vocation is to go on developing her carreer as a Soprano lyrical singer and modern Jazz singer, keeping clearly in mind the difference between both techniques and continuing on both paths simultaneously, as she has the capacities, knowledge and sufficient conditions to do it.
She has passion and enough enthusiasm to go on building, cleaning and developing her instrument; the voice, to sing and keep on producing different projects, improving her sound and scene interpretation.