Bio Inés Basombrío

 Apart from learning with her guitar professor at home since she was three, at age of 19, Inés quitted Architecture and started her guitar, music -and later singing- studies at the Conservatory, in Buenos Aires. Music was no longer a hobby, but main thing in her life.

After having done the first seven years of Conservatory and without yet closing studies, Inés gets married and moves to Germany, where she gets ready to enter the Musikhochschule Köln, learning Harmony, Counterpoint, Audioperception and Guitar in the Musikschule Leverkusen.

She also takes private singing  lessons with Edith Kertèsz, in Bonn, working her Coloratura.

When she approves the guitar and general music education exam, the condition was to stay in Germany for four years, to complete the studies, what was not possible. She would only stay there for little more than a year and then move back to Argentina. 

So, she continued learning Harmony and Counterpoint in the  Musikschule Leverkusen and had her first son.

Back in Argentina, she resumed her studies at the Conservatory and could again not finish them. She lost a baby, needed recovery, and then had a premature baby girl, who now sings, as well.

From Argentina... to Paraguay.

There Inés wanted to finally finish her studies.  She had already learned all the subjects between Argentina and Germany. There was no validation, then, so she would have to attend them again.

That would have felt like "moving backwards", so she decided to record a CD. That would be "her certificate".

Meanwhile, while writing the songs, she took singing lessons in Diapason, School of Music, and applied Orff Method at the same place, with children between three and eight years old. Directed a choir for "Proyecto Flores" and had her third and fourth child.

Inés recorded two CDs while living in Uruguay, where she continued taking singing lessons, now more oriented to pop music, with Maripaz de Melero. She began performing on stage during her late thirties & forties, and lived there ten years long. 

The wind now blowed towards Africa, and she lived in Nairobi for five years, where she learnt Belt singing with Wamuni Njoroge and continued singing on stage.

That was an amazing and intense experience.  

Inés adapted the repertoire to an audience that would not speak much Spanish, but had a great sensitivity and could very well understand the message in music.

You don´t "play" an instrument in Kenia. You "dance" it (Swahili). And people loved Piazzolla! 

So she got inspiration to do more of his repertoire, having the African body spontaneous reaction to music in mind. Still working on it.

Moved to Basle then, where she lived for two years and visited the JazzCampus for lessons and ensemble (see Bio).

There, her fourth child finished school and she was ready to prepare a tour, but Corona had other plans, and so much energy that was "ready to give it all", got somewhat blocked, repressed...

She went back to teaching, and has become an Authorised Complete Vocal Technique Teacher and Singer by CVI Denmark, June 2024.

Meanwhile, the new influences are showing in her approach to "old" (and new) repertoire, refreshing it and giving it "a twist".

At the moment, she is doing small concerts, without stress, to then focus on a new album.