dBâle electronic music festival
basel
frau musica electronica
21 - 23 April 2010
Schwarzwaldallee 200
4058 Basel
Juana Molina
Juana Molina (born in 1962 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a singer-songwriter and an actress. Following the military coup in Argentina in 1976, Molina's family fled the country and lived in exile in Paris for six years. She grew up in a musical environment and her tango-singing father taught her guitar from the age of five.
Juana Molina started her career in 1988 as a comedic television actress in Argentina on the show La Noticia Rebelde. She later starred in Juana y sus hermanas, a hit sketch show across the Spanish-speaking world, for which she remains better known in Latin America.
In 1996, she pursued singing and has released several albums since. The lyrics on her albums are sung in her native Rioplatense Spanish, except in "The Wrong Song," sung in English, from Segundo, and "Insensible," sung in French, from Tres Cosas, and often accompanied by acoustic guitar among other instruments. Her music features elements of ambient and electronica, and was influenced by Larks' Tongues in Aspic of King Crimson and Led Zeppelin II of Led Zeppelin as well as uruguayan music. She is often compared by critics to Björk, Beth Orton and Lisa Germano.
She usually writes, mixes tracks and performs on her own. Her second album, Segundo, was named Best World Music Album 2003 in Entertainment Weekly and gained a Shortlist Award 2004 nomination. Tres Cosas was placed in the Top Ten Records of 2004 by the New York Times. In 2006 she released her fourth album Son and in 2008 the latest album Un Día.