Maika Ceres is a Uruguayan/German classically trained lirico-spinto soprano singer and songwriter. She currently resides in

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, Germany with her husband and children.

Early life and formation

Maika Ceres was born in the city of

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, Uruguay. She is of

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, Italian and Spanish ancestry. At the age of six she started playing piano and took classical piano lessons for ten years as well as singing lessons. In the year 2000 she received her Diploma for vocal technique and began her classical vocal training at age 17, specializing in

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music.
She also played the

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(Lakota) and the Galician traditional tambourine (pandeireta galega) in several concerts. In her shows she has sung in Italian, Portuguese, Galician, English, German, Latin and Czech as well as in her mother tongue Spanish. Ceres is also an avid traditional archer and uses a longbow for practices and competitions. Maika Ceres on stage with Kitaro and Suzanne Ciani

Maika Ceres on stage with Kitaro and Suzanne Ciani

2005–2012: Music career

She has sung in the most important venues of Uruguay such as: *Teatro Solís *Gran Teatro Plaza *Sala Zitarrosa *Castillo de Piria *Maroñas (Gran Premio Ramirez) LIVE TV *Planetario Municipal *Radisson Victoria Plaza LIVE TV *Teatro de la Casa de la Cultura de Maldonado She has also offered many recitals for

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and various musical tributes. Since the year 2008 she worked with Emil Montgomery, a producer / composer of experimental electronic music. With him she offered her first massive concert: Astrodomus, at Piria's Castle, on February 27, 2009, before over 20,000 people. She was part of "The path of the Sun, a country in concert" a national tour that promoted the cultural and historical heritage of Uruguay through shows in different parts of the country. She has been by the side of Montgomery as his lead singer in Imaginaria, playing great classics of music and ''FaroSur'', an international festival featuring prominent national and international artists to promote peace and respect for the environment. Sharing the stage with musicians such as Kitaro and

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. Maika has participated in both collective and individual concerts in the Traditional Folk music scene in Uruguay on several Uruguayan Celtic music Festivals. Her unique voice and musical style made possible the fact that over the years she was able to merge both Celtic and Anglo-Folk together with a classical singing style, resulting in a unique and exceptional sound of her song versions.

2013–2015

Ceres recorded as a guest vocalist for a metal album in Germany. in Helion Studios. In Uruguay, October 2013 she finished the voice recordings for the album of the alternative/industrial rock band VATIKA, produced by Graffiti Award winner Daniel Anselmi. The band launched the first single "Playing" on July 1, via Facebook. In 2014 she offered a concert in the Stadttheater Redoute in Passau, an event organised by th
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In 2015 she was part of the first Kultur Jam Festival, a Concert for refugees in the city of Passau, Germany. She continues with her classical concerts, singing mostly Classical and Baroque repertoire in Germany. Kultur_Jam

Discography

* ''Vatika'' (2014) * ''Lúa Celta'' (2011)

DVDs

* ''Astrodomus'' * ''Farosur'' *
Imaginaria
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Guest appearances

* Vermiforme – ''3103'' (2014) * Crystal Gates – "Song of the Lonely Mountain – The Hobbit OST Metal Version" (2015)

References

External links

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