Amaia Montero

Amaia Montero was born in Irun, Guipúzcoa, on August 26, 1976.

She use to be very quiet, except for the fact that she used to love music and dreamed to became in a singer someday.

Amaia used to study chemical, but the she changed her career and start to study psychology. One day she met a group of friends, who was looking for a female vocalist for their band. When they listened her sing in a party, they immediately incorporate her to his band.

The band was Oreja de Van Gogh, one of the biggest groups of Spanish music scene in recent times.

Amaia Montero used to record with La Oreja De Van Gogh a lot of singles and albums, for example "Tell the Sun", "The Journey of Copperpot", "What I told you while you were doing the sleeping" and "Beautiful".

In November 2008, Montero releases her first solo work. The album was titled: "Amaia Montero", an album in which dominates the sound of guitars and includes eleven compounds by the artist issues.

In this first work, Amaia Montero has been involved in the entire creative process, from composition to the final mixes. The production of the album has been done by Claudio Guidetti. The recordings were made in Genoa and Milan and mixtures in Los Angeles.