- country:Spain
- style(s):Songwriter, Acoustic
- label:Art & Danza
- type:Solo
- gender:female
- instrumentation:vocal, piano
- artist posted by:Art & Danza Promotions
Line up
- Sheila Blanco (piano)
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Sheila Blanco is a jazz singer, Spanish journalist and teacher of the contestants of ‘La Voz Kids’. She has worked with artists such as Alejandro Sanz, Raphael, Rosa López or Daniel Diges.
In 2010 she became the vocalist of the jazz & blues quintet Larry Martin Band together with Larry Martin himself, Richie Ferrer, Enrique García and Domingo Sánchez.
In 2011 she published her first maxi single with 2 promotional songs and by the end of 2012, together with Toch, she arranged and recorded her first studio album: Sheila Down, a self-released project that fuses pop, rock, folk and jazz, influences very present in Sheila's career.
Currently, Sheila Blanco is the vocalist of the jazz trio Puro Gershwin with whom she has released a self-titled album alongside pianist Federico Lechner and guitarists Chema Saiz, Israel Sandoval and Marcos Collado and is also the vocalist of the Mad Sax Big Band. Also, she works as a vocal coach in the television program La Voz Kids from the first edition and in the radio programs La Ventana with Carles Francino and Sofá Sonoro with Alfonso Cardenal de Cadena Ser.
She went viral in 2020 for her Bioclassics videos, in which she narrates the story of the best classical music composers in a musical and fun way, mixing contemporary language with the historical accuracy of each character and its composition.
In April 2020, Sheila Blancó released the album Cantando a las poetas del 27 , a poetic-musical project in which, singing and playing the piano, she has set the poems of a handful of female poets of this literary generation to music. In this album, Sheila gives voice and rhythm to the verses of the poets Carmen Conde Abellán, Ernestina de Champourcín, Concha Méndez, Elisabeth Mulder, Pilar de Valderrama, Margarita Ferreras, Josefina Romo Arregui and Dolores Catarinéu,