She is recording her first studio album under the project name of Labuat. With The Pinker Tones and Risto.
Expected release date on 24/02/2009.

Discography label SONY-BMG. www.labuat.com http://www.myspace.com/labuatoficial

http://es.youtube.com/user/LABUAToficial

Track list (with Spotify links):

1.- De Pequeño (of children)
2.- Ayer (yesterday)
3.- Mentiras a Contraluz (lies to blacklightning)
4.- Soy Tu Aire (I'm you air)
5.- Lo Raro Es Vivir (the strange is to live)
6.- Defíneme Sin Ti (you define me without you)
7.- Carta de Otoño (autumn letter)
8.- Al Margen (to the margin)
9.- Llueve Mal (rains wrong)
10.- Ya Se Verá (will see yet)

11.-Al Margen (Remix by The Pinker Tones)

12.- Soy tu agua (I'm your water)[Voice and piano cover]

Never seen

Debut single: "Soy tu aire" (I'm your air)
10/02/2009 on iTunes Spain
It was n1 in iTunes Spain
Spotyfy link: "Soy tu aire"

Third video at the recording studio (published 31/12/2008)




"I identified myself with the Soul music...
I feel myself very natural with that music. Because it has been very beautiful.
And right now, I am, well, very very enthusiastic, because I love it, I love the project.
I wanted to have the opportunity to record an album. Because it is the dream of my life
It is a music that enters by inside me.
Well, that is based in real facts"

Singing part:
"I'm writing to you..."

 

Spanish webs (under construction) link:

www.labuat.es

www.virginiamaestro.es

Now redirect to the spanish forum

Short musical autobiography:

Virginia Maestro Díaz or Viki, as her close family and friends know her, was born in Linares, Jaén (Spain) on September 29, 1982, and since the beginning her fate was being hopelessly in love with music.

When she was 7 years old and was living in Cordoba, she found out that she liked singing at home, singing as a second voice with her mother, an amateur, along with Virginia’s father, who played guitar. 

A short time later, she discovered The Beatles via her elder sisters, Laura and Ángela. The latter learned to play guitar just the same self-taught way Viki would play later. She would soon dedicate her afternoons to sing and play to the rhythm of The Beatles.
From that moment on, she started to show an interest in a kind of music not very fashionable at the time, but which undoubtedly would mark her style: Elvis Presley, Janis Joplin, Ray Charles…

When Viki was 12, in a few months and with a little practice, she started to compose her first songs using her guitar. That was the beginning of her songs notebook, an item that from that moment on would go wherever she went. She called it “Diary of Sensations”.

When Virginia was 15, she joined her first band as a lead singer. They used to play cover versions, like Radiohead’s “Creep”, a song Virginia got to know under her elder sister’s influence. Some months later, she and her family moved to Seville. There she and her high school mates created several bands. She kept on composing songs in her notebook, for her eyes only at that moment.

At 19 she went to University to study Education Studies, majoring in Music. There she found an environment in tune with her and what she was searching for: her own place in music business.

Later Viki started performing in bars and pubs all around Seville, be it as a member of an acoustic duet, as the lead singer of a 60’s cover versions band, or in piano-voice duets.  

Then she got interested in blues and jazz, genres she discovered in Seville clubs like Casagrande or Jazz Corner. She took part in jam sessions, and met the musicians with whom later she would create some of her bands as a lead singer: Fundación Virginia (unforgettable summers), Little Vicky (as they called her later in Casagrande) or Boogie Flu, a project that was interrupted when Virginia entered the TV show “Operación Triunfo”.

The rest is history…

P.S.: “Music, please”. “Smile, please”.
-Virginia-

Trasnlated by womansblues

(original letter in spanish)

http://www.virginiamaestro.es/foros/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=3211