Bio Inés Basombrío
Inés started playing the guitar when she was three, while the guitar professor waited for her father, who was delayed with patients, to have his lesson. She ended up learning with him informally, in a casual way. In fact, he was a Voice teacher who played and taught guitar, as well.
Her passion was to sing, even though she was too shy to sing out loud. She liked the harmony between voices, the timbres, and enjoyed this “natural mutual understanding” among people who made music; this universal language that connected people all over the world. She had the need to share her musicianship with an audience and with musicians.
Inés started writing songs when she lived in Paraguay, in the fifteen minutes in between each activity of being a mother of four. She also gave guitar lessons, there, and practiced the Orff Method in her music lessons with children. There she gained the confidence to write and to compose. Even though she had studied to become a musician in Buenos Aires and Germany, this teaching experience was like the “opening key” to composing.
It was in Montevideo, Uruguay, where she lived ten years long, that these songs found music and musicians, and came out on stage, to be shared, her two albums “materialized”, and new songs found their inspiration.
Living in Nairobi, she slowly got in touch with new audience and new musicians and was very happy to feel being “at the right place, at the right time”.
Sharing stage with jazz musicians there, waked her passion towards this genre, which she later dived into, when living in Basle, Switzerland, visiting the Jazz Campus for two years, learning Advanced Jazz Theory and being part of an Ensemble, while also learning scatting on Jazz Standards online, what she still does.
In Germany, she first landed in Munich, during Corona, exactly at the time she was ready to be “all in” with performing. That being impossible, she decided to finish her studies in Vocal Technique at CVI Denmark and meanwhile certified as Face Yoga Teacher.
Currently living in Bad Homburg, Germany..
WO ICH GESPIELT HABE
URUGUAY
Sala Zavala Muniz del Teatro Solis
Sala Zitarrosa
Bar Tabaré
Bar Paysandú
El Tartamudo Bar
PARAGUAY
Bar Astoria
ARGENTINA
Circe- Buenos Aires
Les Paul- La Falda
Auditorio de La Falda
NAIROBI
Embassy of the Argentine Republic to Kenya
5th, 6th and 7th Nairobi International Cultural Festivals
Peruvian National Day
Safari Park Hotel for the Child Girl-Plan International
Fundraising Event for Illeret Nomadic Education System
Women in Music Jam & Open Mic- Igiza Lounge
"Mwanzo"- Roots International
Latin Galas
Dagoz Bar
BASEL
Café con letras
Stiftung Hofmatt
Offene Bühne Basel
Markthalle Basel
Private concerts
Mission 21
BRUGG, CH
Fridolin
DEUTSCHLAND
12. November 2022- Kulturzentrum Trudering- DE
Gans Woanders. München
LINZ, AUSTRIA
Divino.Bar
dh5 : "Tango Practica" event
INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA
was invited to open Sofar Innsbruck
The long trip
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.
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