Zayra Alvarez
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Biography
From her Myspace page:Zayra Alvarez is from Dallas, Texas and is a contestant on Rock Star: Supernova. She appears to already have had some success in launching a musical career and has a website located at http://www.zayraalvarez.com. Her website reveals that she was born in Puerto Rico to Luis Alvarez Cruz and Ana Dones Torres.
Zayra grew up in Arroyo and has an older sister named Liza. Zayra started playing in bands at the age of fourteen, but she got away from music while attending college. It was only after she moved to Dallas, Texas and made some musician friends that she was inspired to re-launch her musical career.
Zayras website lists that she signed a deal with Brando Records and has released two albums: Breaking Up Grey Skies and Ruleta. She has also opened for such acts as Blue October, Los Lonely Boys, La Ley, Julieta Venegas, Circo, and Yerba Buena.
Zayra grew up in Arroyo and has an older sister named Liza. Zayra started playing in bands at the age of fourteen, but she got away from music while attending college. It was only after she moved to Dallas, Texas and made some musician friends that she was inspired to re-launch her musical career.
Zayras website lists that she signed a deal with Brando Records and has released two albums: Breaking Up Grey Skies and Ruleta. She has also opened for such acts as Blue October, Los Lonely Boys, La Ley, Julieta Venegas, Circo, and Yerba Buena.
From the Rock Star: Supernova Biography:
At first glance, Zayra Alvarez is so elegant you would think she walked straight off a fashion runaway in Paris. But when you really see and talk with the willowy brunette, you realize there's an edge to that elegance. An intriguing, eclectic edge that's marked her career ever since she was a teenager.
Born in Puerto Rico, Zayra found her stunning voice in talent shows, school plays and various bands she joined as a teenager. At the behest of her parents, she went on to higher learning, placing her musical ambitions on hold while earning a college degree at The University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez. Luckily and perhaps, fatefully, her passion was reawakened in, of all places, Dallas, Texas when she journeyed to the city on what was meant to be a fun trip with her best friend. But fun turned to inspiration and evolution. The lovely songstress was inspired by a diverse, exciting music scene, and this pushed her back to her first love--music, of course.
Picking up a guitar, she began performing regularly at city clubs, wowing audiences with her stunning vocals, guitar strumming and songs in both English and Spanish. It didn't take long for her guitar playing, writing, and, of course, singing to receive serious attention.
Landing a deal with Brando Records (home of Texas indie rock bands like The Nixons and Blue October ), the powerful singer songwriter recorded her debut EP, "Breaking Up Grey Skies"--a gorgeously raw record performed all acoustic and full of heart. Her next move was to seriously embrace her Latin roots, resulting in the compelling album "Ruleta," a breakthrough for the performer that boasted not only her enthralling vocals and tuneful guitar playing but her impressive craft as a songwriter as well.
Since that important release, Zayra's toured the West Coast and her native Puerto Rico. As Paul Nugent Brando proclaimed: "It doesn't matter what language she sings in, this girl has it all." We couldn't agree more. Or as Zayra might sing--we couldn't agree más.
Born in Puerto Rico, Zayra found her stunning voice in talent shows, school plays and various bands she joined as a teenager. At the behest of her parents, she went on to higher learning, placing her musical ambitions on hold while earning a college degree at The University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez. Luckily and perhaps, fatefully, her passion was reawakened in, of all places, Dallas, Texas when she journeyed to the city on what was meant to be a fun trip with her best friend. But fun turned to inspiration and evolution. The lovely songstress was inspired by a diverse, exciting music scene, and this pushed her back to her first love--music, of course.
Picking up a guitar, she began performing regularly at city clubs, wowing audiences with her stunning vocals, guitar strumming and songs in both English and Spanish. It didn't take long for her guitar playing, writing, and, of course, singing to receive serious attention.
Landing a deal with Brando Records (home of Texas indie rock bands like The Nixons and Blue October ), the powerful singer songwriter recorded her debut EP, "Breaking Up Grey Skies"--a gorgeously raw record performed all acoustic and full of heart. Her next move was to seriously embrace her Latin roots, resulting in the compelling album "Ruleta," a breakthrough for the performer that boasted not only her enthralling vocals and tuneful guitar playing but her impressive craft as a songwriter as well.
Since that important release, Zayra's toured the West Coast and her native Puerto Rico. As Paul Nugent Brando proclaimed: "It doesn't matter what language she sings in, this girl has it all." We couldn't agree more. Or as Zayra might sing--we couldn't agree más.
