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42 years |
Birth date |
September 29, 1982 |
Zodiac sign |
Libra |
Place of Birth |
Spain |
Occupation |
Singer, musician, songwriter |
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Virginia Maestro Díaz (born 29 September 1982) is a Spanish singer-songwriter. She is the winner of Operación Triunfo 2008, the Spanish version of Star Academy.
In 2009, she associated herself with Labuat, a musical project with Risto Mejide, one of the judges of OT, and The Pinker Tones. Many of her recordings are thus credited to Virginia Labuat.
Virgínia has said in various interviews that she was exposed to lots of different kinds of music from an early age, especially those of her parents adolescence. Nowadays, she takes most influence from the 50s and 60s, naming Eva Cassidy, The Beatles, Janis Joplin, Solomon Burke, Radiohead, Otis Redding, Ray Charles and Sam Cooke as her favorite artists.
At the age of twelve, influenced by her sisters, she began teaching herself how to play the guitar and she wrote her first songs in a diary, to whom she called "Diario de Sensaciones" (Sensations' Diary). When she was fifteen, she entered in her first band and started to participe in jam sessions. Until her entrance in OT, she had been a part of Fundación Virginia, Little Vicky & the Shout Band, 7Funk, The Flik Flak Duo, Boogie Flu and had shared the stage with such bands as Black Jack Bob & the New Deal and Mingo & The Blues Intruders. Aside from that experiences, she had also been a soprano at the University of Seville choir, where she studied music.
Height | 5 ft 1 in / 154 cm |
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Hair Color | Black |
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Nationality | Spanish |
Race / ethnicity | White |