Julieta Venegas

Julieta Venegas Percevault (born November 24, 1970) is an American-born Mexican singer, songwriter, instrumentalist and producer who sings pop-rock-indie in Spanish.

She went on to join several bands including Mexican ska band Tijuana No!.

Venegas plays 17 instruments including acoustic guitar, accordion, and keyboard.

In 1997, she released her debut album Aquí to favorable reviews in Mexico by the rock audience.

Released in 1997, Aquí contained twelve tracks composed by Venegas and was distributed in Mexico, Spain, and several Latin American countries.

The material proved Venegas to be an extremely inventive artist in Mexican popular music.

The first single from the album, "De Mis Pasos," was dramatically accepted by a young audience and quickly positioned as one of the best female rock songs of that time.

The second single, "Como Sé," won the MTV award for "Mejor Interpretación Femenina."

Following the international release of the album, Venegas received a large number of invitations to collaborate with different musicians and performers in Latin America, including Sasha Sokol, Enanitos Verdes, Sr. Gonzalez, Los Tres, Liquits, Cartel de Santa, León, and Enrique Bunbury.

In 1998, she participated in the tour "De Diva Voz" with Ely Guerra and Aurora y La Academia, appearing at different locations in Mexico and the United States.

Soon after, she toured in "Calaveritas y Diablitos" next to Aterciopelados and Los Fabulosos Cadillacs in Spain.

The same year she participated in the album Volcán: Tributo a José José, a tribute to the legendary Mexican singer José José.

Venegas recorded the song "El Triste."

Her participation in international festivals increased the following year, and Venegas performed at "Midem Americas (Miami)," Generation Ñ "(in Spain)," Rock Al Parque de Bogotá (Colombia) and Festival "El Hatillo" (in Venezuela).

In 1999, she appeared in the Mexican version of the video "Infinito" by Bunbury.

Her next production Bueninvento (2000) also produced by Gustavo Santaolalla, was praised by international critics and considered the third best album in the history of Spanish Rock by Rolling Stone.

In 2000, Nacho Mastretta invited her to participate in her album "Luna de Miel," which consists of twelve songs performed by twelve female vocalists from different countries.

Soon after that, Venegas contributed three songs to the soundtrack of En El País de No Pasa Nada. Soon after, Julieta Venegas wrote and recorded the song "Amores Perros Me Van A Matar" for the film "Amores Perros."

The song was produced by Emmanuel del Real and Quique Rangel (Café Tacuba), who would also collaborate with Venegas on her next album, Bueninvento.

Bueninvento, also produced by Gustavo Santaolalla and Joe Chiccarelli, was launched in September 2000.

It was recorded in Los Angeles (California), Monterrey and Mexico City.

Thirteen of the fourteen songs are authored by Julieta Venegas including a tribute to Juan Gabriel – "Siempre En Mi Mente."

In the same year, she participated in the "Arezzo Wave Love" in Italy, where she sang a version of the song "Amores Perros ..."

In later years, she positioned herself as one of the most prominent songwriters in Latin pop by achieving fame in 2003 in Latin America and Spain with the album Sí and singles "Andar Conmigo" and "Algo está cambiando" which were positioned at the top of Latin Billboard.

In 2006, she released her most successful album Limón y Sal which is her best-selling album to date.

Limón y Sal achieved Platinum status in several countries, including the worldwide hit "Me Voy", which was certified Gold in Mexico.

Her first live album, MTV Unplugged (2008), sold more than 400,000 digital copies and thus obtained a diamond certification in Mexico.

With Sony Music, Venegas released her fifth studio album, Otra Cosa (2010).

She released her sixth studio album Los Momentos (2013), with which she moved to indie pop.

Her seventh studio album Algo Sucede (2015) debuted at number 1 on the Latin Pop Albums chart.

Since 2017 she resides in Buenos Aires, where she debuted as a theater actress in the play La Enamorada by Argentine writer Santiago Loza and released the album La Enamorada (2019) with themes based on the play.

It is estimated that she has sold 10 million records worldwide.

Throughout her career she has earned eight Latin Grammy Awards, seven MTV Awards, seven Broadcast Music, Inc. Awards, five VEVO Certified, three Oye! Awards, two Billboard Music Awards, plus other 100 awards received.

She has also been awarded the accolades Master of Latin Music Award at the Berklee College for her career and a Musa Award in honor to her compositions.

Born in Long Beach, California, United States, Venegas grew up in Tijuana and began playing instruments at age 8 when her parents first sent her to piano lessons.

In the years that followed, music grew to be her passion.

She speaks English, Portuguese, and Spanish.

She has a twin sister, Yvonne, who is a photographer.

At the beginning of her career, she collaborated with a few bands in Tijuana, and then later in Mexico City.

With the support of BMG, Julieta Venegas recorded her first solo album with producer Gustavo Santaolalla.