Isabel Otero

María Isabel’s tender voice and sterling poetics are enough to make the coldest of hearts melt. The 24-year-old, LA-based singer-songwriter’s debut EP, Stuck In The Sky, out October 16, is a rumination on a long-distance relationship, love, loss, and the pains we go through for romance.

Isabel Villanueva will present her debut album ‘Bohèmes’ on 20th October in an press-conference held at Teatro Real in Madrid. This is her first recording project for viola and piano recorded with François Dumont for IMMStage label. The album includes works by Liszt, Granados, Hahn, Martinu, Enesco and Debussy.

Through Romany Songland, soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian takes the listener on a journey through lieder by Brahms, Bizet and Dvorak, operetta by Lehar, Kalman and Herbert, and spicy Spanish songs.

Lebanese-born, Canadian-Armenian-American soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian is as celebrated for her beauty, dynamic presence, and style as for her strikingly multidimensional voice. With this deeply personal project, she gathers a selection of haunting and poignant lullabies that draw on the memories and experiences of the Armenian people. Twenty-nine tracks trace an arc from the Ottoman Empire through the Genocide and beyond, with songs and transcriptions by the country’s beloved folk composer Gomidas Vartabed, Parsegh Ganatchian who joined the diaspora in Lebanon, and Ganatchian’s contemporary Mihran Toumajan. For Isabel, these evocative songs span two centuries and five generations. Sung by her great-grandmother, grandmother and mother, and now to her own children, Isabel’s "Armenian Songs" have an appeal to children of all ages.

Isabel Vinardell, vocals and dance, and Isabelle Laudenbach, guitar and backing vocals, after their experiences with other bands of the Barcelona music scene (Cheb Balowski and Las Migas), are now heading towards this shared path. With a first album, A Solas (Chesapik, 2016), which they presented on national and international tour for 4 years, the duo presents their new record, Diëresis (U98 Music, 2021).