Maru Gutiérrez, born in Valladolid in 1986, has a warm and captivating voice, with an interest in a wide variety of musical styles, clearly reflected in her songs, with jazz as the main source that feeds her and allows her to express herself from the deepest part of her being. To do this, she trained at the Ool Ya Koo school in Granada, although her songs are world music, without established genres.

Throughout her career she has participated in many musical and theatrical projects, and now she presents her first solo work, which will be released in December, with a set of original songs, the result of a very powerful process of inner transformation, of an awakening towards her roots: a vital part that no one sees, but that is there, occupying a very important place.

“In Fang Nchí, the language of one of the majority ethnic groups in Central Africa to which part of my family belonged, it is that part devoid of leaves and flowers but which serves as support; it is that hidden place of a thing and from which the visible or manifest part comes,” explains Maru.

The songs of ‘Proyecto Raíz’ claim the importance of giving life to all those unknown places in us so that, after that rooting and firmness, we can rediscover our true essence, our authentic self.

Maru will present her album, full of “world music and essential voices”, accompanied by six other female performers from different musical styles: Carmen, Pilar Serrano Rivas, Alice L’Nogen, Blanca Barranco, La Meri and Yuta. Seven women on stage, as are the seven songs of her first work.

On this very special day we will also enjoy the collaboration of other artists very present in the Granada music scene.

The event is this Saturday, November 19, in the garden of the Faculty of Translation and Interpretation, starting at 1:00 p.m., with an aperitif and vermouth, and free entry for children under 14 years old.

You can read the original news in El Independiente de Granada.