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Check out our new album release (7-1-14) on Rampart Latino Records. Ixya (pronounced ee-shaw) was born in Oxnard, California. Her name is a Mayan word meaning female bird, an auspicious epithet for this young lady who turned out to be a true songbird with amazing vocal purity and power. The youngest of five children, Ixya grew up in a musical family equally conversant with classical, blues, rock, and Mexican music.
Her home experience and rigorous voice training from master teachers such as Michael Bondon, Nolan Van Way, Mario Llano Talavera, and Seth Riggs (“Voice Coach to the Stars”) have prepared Ixya to sing in a variety of styles with astounding ease and authenticity. Ixya also sings in several languages: English, Spanish, Nahuatl (Aztec), Latin, French, Italian, Hebrew, and Purépecha (an indigenous North American language from Michoacán, Mexico).
Ixya Herrera made her stage debut at age 12 at the Tucson International Mariachi Conference singing duos with her idol Linda Ronstadt. Ixya was later invited by Ms. Ronstadt to do sixteen guest appearances with her in the “Fiesta Mexicana Tour.” She has lectured on voice and Mexican song as part of the Distinguished Speaker Series at California State University, Northridge. Ixya is featured in a chapter of Female Singers in Contemporary Global Context, a book on notable female vocalists from across the world, by musicologist Ruth Hellier-Ixya Herrerainoco.
Other credits include performances at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, the Schwob School of Music River Center for the Performing Arts in Columbus Georgia, the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, Fiddler’s Green Amphitheater in Denver, the John Anson Ford Amphitheater in Hollywood, the Teatro de la Ciudad de la Paz in La Paz, Baja California, the Orange County Center for the Performing Arts, Televisa Foro 2 in Mexico City, Convento del Carmen in Mexico City (Recital for Televisa), UCLA’s Royce Hall, the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, the Tucson International Mariachi Conference (alongside the legendary Lola Beltrán), the Las Cruces International Mariachi Conference (also with Lola Beltrán), and the Los Angeles California Plaza.
Ixya’s first CD recording “Primavera” (Mexican classics) was released in 1996 to the critical acclaim of publications such as Billboard Magazine (which awarded Ixya a Star for musical excellence), Entertainment Weekly, The L.A. Times, The Tucson Citizen, Farándula Musical, Latin Style Magazine, Frontera Magazine, and others. Ixya’s second CD, “Cantares Mexicanos”, was released in December, 2004. Her current and third (3rd) CD release, “Voz y Guitarra” featuring Legendary Mexican Guitarist Elias Torres will be released exclusively worldwide on Rampart Latino Records and distributed by The Orchard (A Division Of Sony Music Corporation).
— at Lincoln Center Theater in New York City.