Betsy Pecanins
BIOGRAFIA
Betsy
was born in Yuma, Arizona. Her farther was American and her mother
Catalan.
Mexico, where she has lived since 1977, is her third motherland: she has
lived there throughout different stages of her life and it is her chosen
homeland. Both a singer and a composer, Betsy has had outstanding
performances in all the important stages in Mexico and many different
forums abroad. Her back catalogue consists of 13 titles and 10
collaborations with different musicians.
Betsy Pecanins grew up within a large range of musical influence, among
them Mexican ranchero folk song, bolero and blues, whose fusion is a basic
source of her singing.
Among her most outstanding performances are those with the Orquesta de
Baja California (Baja California Orchestra) and the Filarmónica de la
ciudad de México (Mexico City Philarmonic Orchestra) directed by, Eduardo
García Barrios, Eduardo Diazmuñoz, Benjamín Juárez and Luis Herrera de
la Fuente. Among others, she has sung duets with Tania Libertad,
Margie Bermejo, Cecilia Toussaint, Eugenia León, Amparo Ochoa, Guillermo
Briseño and with blues fiddler Papa John Creach.
She interpreted the singing voice of Lucha Reyes in Arturo Ripstein¹s
film La Reina de la Noche and participated with songs in the films Hasta
Morir, Dos Crímenes, Cilantro y Perejil and Asesino en
Serio.
At an international level, she has performed in Havana, Barcelona, Madrid,
Paris, Cannes, Lisbon, Los Angeles, Tucson, Yuma, New York, Washington,
San Antonio and Miami.
Her artistic project, in which the fusion of Mexican ranchero folk
songs and boleros with blues which is particularly notorious in projects
such as El Efecto Tequila,
Tequila Azul y Batuta and Qué Azul era mi Lara, is
still growing and diversifying. The originality of this work has
earned her a very prominent place in today¹s music. Her outstanding
voice and presence continuously makes the already large number of her
followers and fans increase.
