Biography

Claudia Acuña is a vocalist and composer from Concepción, Chile. Being raised in South America greatly influenced her approach to her musical art. After moving to New York City in 1995, her career as a jazz musician began to blossom. Just her luck, there was a dynamic and fiery transformation happening in the jazz scene. Many Latin-American artists were incorporating their culture and music into contemporary jazz! By the year 2000, she released her debut album “Wind From The South” after collaborating with the remarkable Avishai Cohen. Currently, she has 5 albums titled Wind From The South, Rhythm of Life, Luna, In These Shoes, En Este Momento, and Turning Pages. Her website states a powerful and very perfect description of her music: “Whether putting her stamp on popular Latin American ballads, reimagining jazz standards from a South American perspective, or bringing infusing Afro-Caribbean material with a wide rhythmic sensibility, Acuña stands out as a passionate and emotionally incisive singer with a gleaming, burnished bronze tone”. (www.claudiaacunamusic.com) Another notable musician that she’s worked with is Branford Marsalis, who helped produce her album “En Este Momento'' on his record label. For the past few years, she’s made the selfless and loving decision to put her career on the back burner to care for and raise her son.