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Artist
Lorena Álvarez
12+ albums
folkpopspanishsinger-songwriterspanish female vocalists
about
Lorena Álvarez is a Spanish folk singer and songwriter. She linked for years to the world of painting, from 2010 she decides to start composing music that she shares with friends and family. Encouraged by the success of this one, she ends up publishing in 2012 the first collection of her songs under the title The tape with the Sones label in cassette format, giving away with the album a low-cost walkman so that anyone could listen to it. Later, on the same label, she publishes the vinyl and CD version of said album under the title Anonymous. The growing popularity of her makes her open for Julieta Venegas and accompany Nacho Vegas in several concerts of the Asturian singer. In 2014, at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, accompanied by the "La Dinamo" choir, she recorded live the EP in 10 format "Dinamita", which will be published by the Producciones Doradas label that same year. In 2018 she collaborates on Soleá Morente's album Ole Lorelei. Between 2014 and 2019 she dedicated herself to composing the songs for her album Colección de canciones sencillas, finally released in June 2019 on the Elsegell label in CD and LP format. Her main influence is the group Vainica Doble, although in her synthesis of indie pop and traditional music she herself recognizes the ascendancy of Violeta Parra, Leonard Cohen and Patti Smith. In addition to her compositions, she is the author of the designs of her discs as well as the illustrations that appear in them, showing in the interviews
