Pamela Rodriguez

Pamela Rodriguez is a Latin Grammy Nominated artist, who is exploring the cross-cultural musical languages within her home city Lima, Peru. She records with the award winning and three time Grammy Nominee producer Greg Landau and together work to find a modern homogenous sound and a connecting thread to her music that contains a wide range of styles such as landó, festejo, Peruvian waltz, zamacueca, the Peruvian jungle’s Cumbia, indie rock and reggae.

Her first album Peru Blue explored the new arrangements of Peruvian Classics like Augusto Polo Campos´ "Cuando llora mi guitarra" and Chabuca Granda's "Cardo o Ceniza", next to her own compositions. Being a Peruvian folk composer is quite an achievement since most singers and musicians in the Afro-Peruvian genre tend to sing the same songs from the Afro-Peruvian songbook. "Peru Blue" was also controversial since she decided to sing a Jazz Ballad written by her ("silent tears") in a Peruvian folk production scheme.

She has recently released a new album [http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=289118044&id=289117995&s=143441 "en la orilla"] . In this new work she explored more deeply into her Peruvian roots, and sets in stone a style of her own. She writes all of the songs, except the landó version of Billie Holidays “Don’t explain”. The melodies are very strong and also her lyrics that speak about women identity in the new Lima, politics and intimate poetry.