Lena

A primary descendent of Cuban singers Elena Burke and Marlena Burke — her grandmother and mom, respectively — in addition to daughter of manufacturer Rey Nerio, Lena Pérez knew from an early on age that she wished to be considered a musician. Blessed in Havana, Lena had taken both electric guitar and traditional piano lessons as a kid, discovering that her real love lay within the last mentioned. Also thinking about tone of voice, she perfected her abilities performing backup on albums for performers like Gloria Estefan, Julio Iglesias, Jennifer Lopez, Thalía, Jaci Velasquez, Chayanne, and Alejandro Sanz. Despite her familial cable connections, it was ending up in the last mentioned, however, that established her career being a vocalist and performer into movement. Sanz was therefore impressed using the music Lena sang for him that he presented her to individuals at Warner Music Latina, who shortly signed the youthful Cuban. In 2005 her self-titled debut arrived, accompanied by a tour that spanned a lot of Latin America in addition to part of European countries. A year or two afterwards she starred in La Mala, a biopic of renowned Cuban vocalist La Lupe, that she also documented all the music. A soundtrack record premiered in 2008. This year 2010 she teamed up with Spanish vocalist Alex Ubago and Colombian Jorge Villamizar, previously of Bacilos, for the task Alex, Jorge con Lena.