Occupation(s) Singer Role Singer Instruments Vocals | Labels Sony Music Albums Pajaro Rebelde Name Gabriela Pochinki | |
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Birth name Gabriela Edith Pochinki Website www.gabrielapochinki.com.ar Genres Opera, Pop music, Tango music, Popular music Similar People Raul Lavie, Iliana Calabro, Leticia Bredice, Renata Scotto | ||
Record label Sony Music Entertainment | ||
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Gabriela Edith Pochinki is a singer of Opera and popular music. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and has begun her career when she was a child. She has been awarded prizes at major Opera competitions, including "Best Female Opera Singer" at the Sanremo Festival and "Best Singer In The World" at the 3º Festival della Lirica of the Sanremo Musica Festival, both in Italy. She got the second prize at the Pavarotti Competition, where she met Luciano Pavarotti, who had said about her: "The quality of Gabriela’s voice is stunningly beautiful".
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- Gabriela pochinki dona dona en vivo en san luis
- Opera new york rigoletto gabriela pochinki
- Music career
- Incursion in Pop Music
- Awards
- Theater
- Television
- Present
- References
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Music career
She first received a Bachelor's degree and then a Master’s degree in Music from the Manhattan School of Music. She also received a degree in Speech Therapy from Universidad de Medicina de El Salvador in Buenos Aires. Apart from Opera, she recorded many songs in different styles and genres such as Tango, Pop Music and liturgical chants. Pochinki played different characters in many popular Operas, not only in Argentina but also in United States and Europe. For nine months she played the role of Maria in Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story at the Landestheater in Salzburg and at the Vienna's Volksoper. During her stay in the United States she toured many cities with the Virginia Opera, where she was the only non-North American performer of the original English-language Broadway version of West Side Story Apart from playing a Maria in Bernstein's West Side Story, Gabriela also played Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto, Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville, and Marie in Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment. Besides, she performed famous songs like “Somewhere over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz.
Incursion in Pop Music
Gabriela Pochinki made an incursion in Pop Music with her debut album entitled Pájaro Rebelde. After recording a wide repertoire of Opera arias and liturgical chants with the accompaniment of different symphonic orchestras, she traveled to Los Angeles invited by Michael Jackson's father Joe Jackson, who helped her to start her career in Pop Music. She lived eight months in Neverland and had the opportunity to meet Michael Jackson. She became close to Jackson's family and in 2009 she was invited to perform live at This Is It movie premiere. Soon, she was invited back to Los Angeles by the seven-time Grammy winner producer Kenny O' Brien, who is known for his work with Celine Dion. With O' Brien, she spent a couple of months choosing and developing a wide repertoire of popular songs. Jorge Calandrelli worked on the arrangements and orchestration of the recordings. In 2007 Sony BMG released her Opera-Pop album sang entirely in Spanish entitled Pájaro Rebelde. The album includes acclaimed songs such as Horacio Guaraní's “Amar Amando” and “Memorias de una Vieja Canción” and Carlos Gardel's “El Día Que Me Quieras". The album includes Tangos, love songs, and well-known arias like Mozart's “Queen of the Night” and Schubert's “Ave Maria”, which had become Pope John Paul II wake up tune. Because she reached popular recognition by playing a wide repertoire that goes from Opera to popular music, she received by American and European press the sobriquet of “La Soprano del Pueblo” ("The Soprano of the People").
Awards
Theater
Television
In Italy, she has performed on RAI 1 and 2 and on 5 Mediaset Channel. In Germany, she played Zerlina in Don Giovanni on ZDF Channel. She has performed at popular television shows and channels in Argentina. She has been interviewed by television hosts such as Mirtha Legrand, Susana Giménez, Marcelo Tinelli and Nicolás Repetto. At Tinnelli's show, she was a coach on the Singing Contest called "Bailando Por Un Sueño" ("Dancing For a Dream"). Gabriela has appeared on television in Japan, Israel, the United States and Austria.
Present
During the last years, Gabriela has been on tour throughout Argentina with her show “Canciones de mi Vida”. In 2011 she also performed it abroad, in Uruguay, France, and Israel, among other places. On December 3, 2014 she was declared Distinguished Personality of Argentinean culture by the legislature of Buenos Aires.