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Grammy nominée for the »Best Vocal Jazz Album«, immensely popular throughout Mexico and Latin America, a dazzling accomplished singer-songwriter known for her beguiling rhythmic scatting, inflected with soulful Latin-Andalusian phrasings, Magos Herrera owns a unique signature that elegantly blends her classic jazz styling with Latin-American melodies. Fluent in Spanish, Portuguese and English, her repertoire is filled with the yearning romance, intimacy and enchantment of Mexican and Cuban sones and boleros, and sultry, languid Brazilian beats.
Based in New York since 2007, Magos Herrera promptly became part of the local scene since her successful concert at New York Winter Jazz Festival in 2008. She has recorded with saxophonist Tim Ries for »The Rolling Stones World Project II«. In spring 2009, acclaimed by the critics, Magos released her sixth album, »Distancia« (Sunnyside), recorded with a top-flight new york band including Lionel Loueke and Aaron Goldberg. »Distancia« became the number one on iTunes in the jazz category. It was nominated for a Grammy as »Best Vocal Jazz Album«, and was included in the 1000 cds you have to hear before you die.
A year after this succesful release, Magos Herrera presents »Mexico Azul« (Sony), an album to celebrate Mexico's bicentennial with songs by composers who emerged in the heyday of Mexican cinema in the 1930s and 40s, supported by a prime New York band including John Patitucci, Adam Rogers, Luis Perdomo, Alex Kautz and Rogelio Boccatto and produced by Tim Ries.