Ani Cordero (born 1974) is a Puerto Rican vocalist, drummer, guitarist, and songwriter.
Biography
Cordero was born Ana Marieli Cordero Garcia in
Boston
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, Massachusetts. Since 1999, she has resided in
Brooklyn
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, New York.
Cordero's work in music began in her teen years in
Atlanta
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, Georgia. She has performed as a solo artist as well as a number of bands, including Cordero, her bilingual rock group with husband and drummer
Chris Verene
Christopher Phillip Verene (born 29 October 1969) is an American fine arts and documentary photographer, performance artist, and musician. He is a professor of photography at the College of Staten Island, CUNY. Verene was awarded a Guggenhei ...
. She has recorded and toured both nationally and internationally.
From the 1980s until 2009, Cordero performed with
Man or Astro-man?
Man or Astro-man? is an American surf rock group that formed in Auburn, Alabama in the early 1990s and came to prominence over the following decade.
Primarily instrumental, Man or Astro-man? blended the surf rock style of the early 1960s like ...
,
Dean and Britta
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,
Josh Joplin Group,
Angels of Light
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,
Bee and Flower
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Bee and F ...
, and #1 Family Mover. Between 2010 and 2013, she performed with
Os Mutantes
Os Mutantes (meaning '' the mutants''; ) are an influential Brazilian rock band that were linked with the Tropicália movement, a dissident musical movement during the Brazilian dictatorship of the late 1960s. The band is considered to be one of ...
,
Rasputina, Cordero, Tuff Sunshine, and
Pistolera, which she helped create.
In 2014, Cordero released her first solo album, ''Recordar'', consisting of covers of Latin American protest songs. In 2017, she released a second solo album, ''Querido Mundo''.
Her third album, ''El Machete'', came out in 2019.
Activism
In 2017, Cordero and Raquel Berrios from the band
Buscabulla formed a nonprofit activist organization called PRIMA (Puerto Rico Independent Musicians and Artists). The PRIMA Fund was established to provide emergency assistance to musicians and artists in Puerto Rico after the devastating effects of hurricanes Irma and Maria. The organization has given over seventy grants and organized multiple concerts and events.
[https://people.com/chica/prima-fund-help-puerto-rican-musicians-artists/]
Discography
References
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1974 births
Living people
Musicians from Boston
American people of Puerto Rican descent
Puerto Rican multi-instrumentalists
Musicians from Brooklyn
Musicians from Atlanta
Os Mutantes members