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Mónica Navarro
Real name: Navarro, Mónica
Singer
(30 October 1968 - )
Place of birth:
Buenos Aires Argentina
ARTISTS IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfredo Zitarrosa
Astor Piazzolla
Fito Páez
Gustavo Nocetti
Mario Díaz
Rubén Juárez
Sexteto Mayor
By
Todotango.com
he began her career in 1984 with the music group Las Voces del Amanecer with which she won a prize as «Grupo revelación» at the festival «Merlo Capital del Folklore».
She studied theater at the school run by Eduardo Abate and appeared at the play
La lección de anatomía
. She went to Montevideo to appear at this play and thereafter she was based in that city.
In the late 1997 the actor and singer Tabaré Rivero summoned her to join his group La Tabaré, a well-known Uruguayan rock band. It was an almost ten-year tenure with that group. Meanwhile she went on studying and furthering her artistry in different disciplines: clowning, masks, theatrical makeup, Butoh dance, murga, vocal technique at the Ana Prada’s workshop in Montevideo.
She appeared and was billed alongside international and River Plate artists: Bersuit Vergarbat, Omar Mollo, Las Pelotas, Molotov, Fernando Cabrera, Daniel Viglietti, Gastón Ciarlo Dino, Rúben Rada, Eduardo Darnauchans, Los Piojos, Luis Alberto Spinetta,
Fito Páez
, Café Tacuba, among others.
In 2000 she was awarded a special mention: «Premio Amarcord 2000: Mejor voz de tango». That same year she appeared accompanied by Silvio Ortega, former
Alfredo Zitarrosa
’s guitarist.
She appeared at the homage paid for the 70th anniversary of
Alfredo Zitarrosa
’s birth and the 250th Mozart’s anniversary made by the Fundación Zitarrosa and the Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, accompanied by
Mario Díaz
on guitar and Edison Bordón on bandoneon.
The Fundación
Astor Piazzolla
invited her to appear in one of the numbers of
Tanguedia
at the venue La Spezia. She appeared at important locals in Montevideo. In 2007 she recorded live her first disc
Paquetito de tangos
at the Sala Zitarrosa which was released by Bizarro Records in Uruguay and in Argentina by the Barca label. The disc was awarded in Uruguay as the best tango album in 2008.
She performed at the XX Festival Internacional Viva el Tango; at the
Proyecto Cabaret
along with
Rubén Juárez
at the Sala Zitarrosa; at the X Festival de tango in the city of Buenos Aires, at the Torquato Tasso. In August 2008 she made a tour of the interior of Uruguay, named
Trompo Azul
, which ended in October at the Teatro Solís. On this occasion a homage was paid to the late
Gustavo Nocetti
. There she appeared along with the
Sexteto Mayor
as guest artist.
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