Priscilla Hernández is a Spanish singer-songwriter and fantasy illustrator. Born in La Palma (

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), she is now based in

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, Spain. She is also the founder of the independent record label Yidneth Records. Priscilla's music can be classified as 'Ethereal gothic' or dark new age, based in the spectral spellbinding of fairytales, a concept that also nourishes her fantasy and fairy art as illustrator. She's also known as "Yidneth" which is not her artistic name but her comic project as an illustrator made in the late 1990s but unreleased. After some demos and collaborations in soundtracks and other CDs and projects, late 2006 she released her official debut album "Ancient Shadows (the ghost and the fairy)", which compiles 19 of her songs as well as two booklets with her illustrations. The album won the award of "Best New Age Album" for the

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and best ambient song and album at JPfolks awards (Nashville) and she was also nominee as best new age vocalist in Los Angeles Music Awards. This project is specially inspired not only by the fantasy world of fairies and ghosts that inspires her artworks but also by the

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. Her second album was released as an illustrated digibook late 2011. Thanks to the company

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, Priscilla premiered in the United States both in the West Coast (Faerieworlds) and East Coast (Faeriecon) along with bands like Qntal, Faun, Woodland and Trillian Green. She also has appeared on the cover of

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. Priscilla's music has been compared with

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, and

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Music

*2006 �
Ancient Shadows
*2011 �
The Underliving
*2012 �
No matter what they say (single)
*2013 –
The waking of the Spring
*2019 – Flame (single) *2019 – Nothing is Done Until It's Done (single) *2020 – Surrender (single) *2021 – Longing to Bloom (single) ‍

External sources

Priscilla Hernandez Ancient Shadows press kit (pdf) Priscilla Hernandez The Underliving press kit (pdf)

References

External links

OFFICIAL ARTIST SITEOFFICIAL FAN CLUB SITEPriscilla Hernandez videos Ancient Shadows project information The Underliving project information
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