November 8

Tom Bradley International Terminal

Mexican singer-songwriter and composer Ely Guerra has proven herself to be a salient artist over the course of her 30-year career, as winner of the Latin Grammy for Best Alternative Album in 2010 and with credits in three other nominations. Guerra’s extensive tours have allowed her to reach thousands of audiences across Mexico, Cuba, Central and South America, the United States, and Europe, with notable performances at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City, the historic Metropolitan Theater of Mexico City, and her upcoming debut at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California. Backstage, Guerra is the independent owner of record label Homey Company, which she founded in 2005.

The New York Times said of a performance in 2010, “She was a creature of control and abandon, measuring her gestures as carefully as she hit her notes, but also letting the music move her.” The first live recording of her career, Cycles (2013), filmed and recorded live during the closing concert of the 2011 Invisible Man tour at the emblematic Metropolitan Theater of the City of Mexico, testifies to the conclusion of an important stage in her artistic trajectory. Three years later, Ely returned to the stage to celebrate her preceding twenty years of work with a stripped-back piano and vocal arrangement: THE ORIGIN tour. This new aesthetic arrangement acted as a direct bridge to her later, more experimental work that moves beyond her early days as an Alternative Rock artist. In 2019, she released her latest album Zion, which blended a cappella voicings between Western and Eastern scales, anchored by the distinctive, sensual lyricism present throughout her career.

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