Robando luz al sol betsy pecanins biography

Mexican singer and composer (1954–2016)

Elizabeth Taylor Pecanins (1954^[1] – December 13, 2016) was an American-born Mexican singer, songwriter and record producer.

Known in Mexico as Queen of the Blues^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

Biography

Betsy Pecanins was born to a Catalan mother and an American father and grew up in an art-conscious family.

Robando luz al sol betsy pecanins biography

For example, her mother Ana María Pecanins and her aunt Teresa founded the Galería Pecanins art gallery in Mexico City and Barcelona.^[7] She spent her first years in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. In 1977 she emigrated to Mexico to pursue her artistic career, where she settled.

In 1980 she recorded her first album, Viendo tus ojos. Throughout her career she suffered the consequences of the culture of machismo prevalent in Mexico, and the lack of belief in a woman being able to be a credible musician in her own right.^[8]

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