{"id":6,"date":"2011-12-10T15:10:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T14:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ireneb.com\/newpage\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2023-03-26T15:33:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T19:33:42","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ireneb.com\/newpage\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If IreneB<\/strong>\u2019s career could be defined by a word, it would have to be \u201cperseverance\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Spaniard artist had been studying music since she was only 6, listening to R&B since she can remember & she also graduated in Modern Music and Jazz in 2005. But it wasn\u2019t until 2006, well into her twenties, when she released her first EP, \u201cMi Realidad\u201d,<\/em> that launched her debut in the music industry of today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After this release, everything caught up faster than the speed of light. She met multi-platinum producer Frankie Biggz<\/strong>, with whom she recorded, between Miami & Orlando, \u201cMetamorphosis\u201d<\/em> (Rama Music, 2009), her debut album. That album would make her the first Spaniard to ever release an English R&B album worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moving to Orlando in 2007, where she established her home for over 4 years, she was encouraged by the excellent response and success of the 3 singles released off \u201cMetamorphosis\u201d<\/em> in both terrestrial & online radio around the world. She embarked on a tour that took her to perform in her hometown Barcelona, Madrid, several cities in Germany, United Kingdom & most of the US territory (including Miami, Orlando, Chicago, Atlanta & Detroit, amongst others).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As if that wasn\u2019t enough, IreneB<\/strong> was also featured in four songs for \u201cNow Is The Time\u201d<\/em> (Heads Up, 2010), legendary keyboard player Jeff Lorber\u2019s album, that later in 2010 would receive a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Contemporary album<\/span>. Being that the most important nomination she\u2019s received up until today, it\u2019s not been the only one, as it was thanks to \u201cMetamorphosis\u201d<\/em> that she would earn two nominations to the prestigious Premios de la Musica in 2009 (Best New Artist & Best Pop Album)<\/span> & five nominations for the independent music awards Premios de la Musica Independiente in 2010 (Best Urban Album, Best New Artist, Spanish Artist of the Year, Album of the Year & Song Of the Year).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three years after, and back to her beloved hometown, Barcelona (Spain), IreneB fires back with \u201cWelcome Back\u201d<\/em>, an intimate collection of songs and sounds that remind us of singers and groups IreneB has listened to since she was a child, those who shaped her essence as a singer: Mariah Carey, Aaliyah, TLC and Boyz II Men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her new album is, in IreneB\u2019s words, \u201ca nineties R&B music tribute album; it is what I always<\/em>
wanted to do and I am finally able to\u201d<\/em>. With “Metamorphosis”<\/em>, her first record, we witnessed IreneB’s transformation; with “Welcome Back,”<\/em> we experience a more mature artist, that experiments with different registers and textures in her voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If IreneB\u2019s career could be defined by a word, it would have to be \u201cperseverance\u201d. The Spaniard artist had been studying music since she was only 6, listening to R&B since she can remember & she also graduated in Modern Music and Jazz in 2005. But it wasn\u2019t until 2006, well into her twenties, when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P23i22-6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneb.com\/newpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneb.com\/newpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneb.com\/newpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneb.com\/newpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneb.com\/newpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneb.com\/newpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneb.com\/newpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneb.com\/newpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}