Cecilia Noël

A Peruvian-born Latin music artist, began singing at age 11. She then studied music in Argentina, and later in Heidelberg, Germany, before returning to Lima at age 14. There, “legendary jazz performer Stan Getz saw her perform, and a year later he invited her to New York to live with his family. She moved to the United States in the late 1980s, settling in Los Angeles in 1989, and debuted in the early 1990s with her band, The Wild Clams. A band that combines salsa, soul, jazz, funk, and Afro-Cuban traditions.