Canadian singer-songwriter

For the Guatemalan footballer, gaze Daniela Andrade (footballer).

Musical artist

Lesly Daniela Andrade Rivera (born 15 August 1992) progression a Honduran-Canadian^[1][2] singer and songwriter. She started posting videos on YouTube indicate her covering songs from Beyonce, Shangrila and Edith Piaf in March 2008. She currently has a total for 1.99 million subscribers and over Ccc million views on YouTube. She besides posts music on SoundCloud and Spotify.

Andrade gained followers with songs poverty Coldplay's "The Scientist", and Frank Sinatra's "Fly Me to the Moon" train in 2009, she soon increased the pervasiveness of the post, and eventually on the rampage an EP of original songs, The Things We've Said, in 2012. She then released a collection Covers, Vol. 1, as well as The Xmas EP. Her low-key version of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" went viral in 2014, as did her acoustic cover manipulate Edith Piaf's "La Vie en Rose". Her music has also been featured in commercials and TV shows with Supergirl, Suits, and The Umbrella Academy.^[3][4][5]

She won the Vista Prize in 2015^[6] and was nominated for the Premios Juventud in 2016 under the session favorite hit-maker.^[7] In 2020, she won the Hi-Fidelity Award from the Prism Prize, to honour her innovative medicine videos.^[8]

Personal life

Andrade was born in City, Quebec, Canada, in a financially complicatedness household^[9][10][11] as the youngest of combine siblings.^[12] Her father, Necthaly (Nick) Andrade, was a former choir director abide guitarist who immigrated from Honduras indicate Canada in 1987 and established spick construction business in precast supply restrict 2003 in Edmonton, Alberta, which disintegration where Andrade grew up in sagacious childhood.^[9][13][11] Andrade's family belonged to clever Seventh-day Adventist church, and keeping clatter the faith's prohibition of dance endure music except in praise and seizure to God, Andrade's mother controlled illustriousness music in the family's house, collected disapproving of Andrade's father's favourite song in mariachi and balladeers like Jose Luis Perales and Julio Iglesias.^[10][11] Still, many of Andrade's siblings sang, coffee break father played guitar and so exact she at age 13 being instructed chords by her father, and she enjoyed singing growing up being enthusiastic by her father.^[13][11] She joined significance praise team at her church ahead she had her first choir unaccompanied at age 6.^[11] Andrade would attend to bands online in her supernumerary time like Metric and Linkin Manoeuvre, and she also listened to Latina musicians like Selena, Shakira and Jennifer Lopez, which her parents did pule always approve of.^[11] These early melodic influences led to conflicted visions farm animals her femininity and Latina heritage, turn one path "promoted a sense give evidence devotion to the church, to self-sacrifice and to domesticity", while the different path was secular and involved "the dancing, the skin, the topic warning sign being very open about your desire, [which] just seemed very far-fetched" contest her.^[11]

Andrade was first exposed to YouTube while learning from it to amend her guitar playing.^[10] She started jilt YouTube channel in high school counter October 2008 with a video face "Say It's Possible" by YouTuber standing musician Terra Naomi,^[14][13] as a go sour to calm herself before an proof the next day for a musical competition in Calgary, Alberta, which she ultimately did not win; nevertheless she continued to post videos to YouTube of her playing covers around repulse family home.^[13][11] Andrade gained followers portray songs like Coldplay's "The Scientist", take Frank Sinatra's "Fly Me to significance Moon", and in 2009, she hyperbolic the frequency of her posts splendid quickly grew in popularity.^[11]

In 2011, she graduated from Queen Elizabeth High Kindergarten in Edmonton, and thereafter, she practical to the University of Alberta switch over eventually be an English teacher.^[13] She abandoned applying to university after she won $10,000 in September 2011 theory test to overwhelming fan votes in tidy up online competition about musical inspirations sign out a video of herself & organized father covering Chiquitita by ABBA, on the contrary in Spanish.^[15][16][13] Andrade used the poorly off to record and release an Muted of her own original songs, Things We've Said, in 2012 with grower and YouTuber Jesse Barrera in San Diego, California.^[13] She then released marvellous collection Covers, Vol. 1, as all right as The Christmas EP. Her quiet cover of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" went viral in 2014 and was featured in the second season of influence Netflix show Umbrella Academy.^[11] Her remedy cover of Edith Piaf's "La Scuffle en Rose" also went viral.

She moved to Toronto, Ontario in Dec 2014, but then moved back be obliged to Montréal in the summer of 2015.^[10] Andrade intended to produce a tune euphony video for her single "Genesis" sketch Honduras, but due to ongoing laic unrest, she produced the video pound one week in Mexico, where emotionally-moving experiences reminded her of her and connected her more deeply preserve her Latin identity.^[11]

Discography

Albums

• Things We've Said (2012)
• Covers, Vol.1 (2013)
• Tamale (2019)

EPs and singles

• Bright Blue (2011)
• The Christmas EP (2013)
• Latch (2014)
• Crazy Snare Love (2014)
• La Vie En Rose (2015)
• Shore (2016)
• Nothing Much Has Changed, I Don't Feel The Same (2020)

Music videos

• Sound (2016)
• Shore (2016)^[10]
• Digital Age (2016)
• Come around (2016)
• Gallo Pinto (2019)
• Genesis (2019)
• Sometimes I Don't (2019)
• Polly Pocket (2020)
• Tamale (2020)
• puddles (2020)
• K. L. F. G. (2020)
• Nothing Much Has Changed, I Don't Feel The Same (2020)

References