Susana Zabaleta

Musical authority
25 years of musical romance!

Susana Zabaleta makes us feel restless, fascinated, shaken, seduced and overwhelmed when listening to her performance skills. Born in Monclova, Coahuila, she is one of Mexico’s most versatile and rich voices, celebrating her musical silver wedding in a big fashion. It is a 25 year romance full of successes in the world of music, acting and emotions.

For two and a half decades, Susana Zabaleta has created herself a reputation as one of the most versatile music personalities in Mexico. She has played in little alternative forums as well in big concert halls. Her frailty transformed into a cinema’s projector light and her temper into a fortress that keeps her from caving into the musical industry’s needs in order to surrender herself to art.

Susana Zabaleta is a connoisseur of ranchero, passive and stormy songs. She walked all music genres; her voice is versatile enough to sing arias, pop, rock, bolero, crossover, ballads, flamenco, tango and many other styles loved by her audiences.

Zabaleta’s career began in Florence, Italy, where she received vocal performance classes and submerged into many art expressions. She ended her studies at the Superior School of Music, graduating as soloist under the wing of maestro Enrique Patron de Rueda.

Her first presentations were in La Traviata, The Exilir of Love and Dido and Eneas. Then Manolo Fabregas opened the door of musical plays like Fiddler on the Roof, Don Quixote de la Mancha and other great outstanding Mexican montages like ¡Que planton! And Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic play Cats, based on the poems of T.S. Eliot. And last but not least, the memorable role of Aldonza/Dulcinea in Man of la Mancha, which received a Tony award.

Zabaleta has sold many gold and platinum records and has one of the most multifaceted musical careers. She has taken over pop, rock, ballads, bolero, crossover and Mexican songs in ten albums on her discography. Since her album debut ¿…O fue un sueño? (1993), to Amarrados (2009); in her works she has recreated the styles of Miguel Bose, Liliana Felipe, Minnie Riperton, Elton John, Nacho Cano, Francisco Cespedes, Memo Mendez, Bobby Capo, Alvaro Carrillo, Agustin Lara, Juan Gabriel, Manuel Esperon (her piano companion in 2002’s El pasado nos vuelve a pasar album), and Armando Manzanero; one of the legendary singer’s most recent muses. Manzanero took her on tour on his award-winning shows, traveling overseas, all the way to Japan.

In the film world, Zabaleta has took her presence as one of the most emblematic faces in Mexican cinema. Her onscreen characters are always heightened by films like Sobrenatural, Elisa antes del fin del mundo, Vivir mata, the peculiar movie version of Così Fan Tutte and box office hit Sexo, pudor y lagrimas. She has won plenty of awards, like the Silver Goddess for Best Actress. Her singing talents have landed her roles in animated films like Disney’s Pocahontas, and Dreamworks’s Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas.

Zabaleta’s is a hopeless rebel. Her discipline has been the engine that transgresses her own goals. Whenever she reaches a tipping point in her career, she transforms into a new creature, even more fascinating in order to conquer her next challenges. Her TV experience has taken her to many important soap operas, series and musical shows.

One of her biggest artistic affairs took place next to Mexico City’s Philharmonic Orchestra, singing the melodies of great authors like Giacomo Puccini, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi, Liliana Felipe, the great Yma Sumac and the legendary George Gershwin, just to name a few. Every year Zabaleta shocks the foundations of one of her vocal sanctuaries: the legendary Silvestre Revueltas hall located in Ollin Yoliztli’s Cultural Center.

The artist is currently promoting her tenth studio album called Kinky retorcido, a 2-CD set with a studio and a live recording featuring highlights of her show, shaking her audiences’ mind and senses.

Zabaleta is constantly on tour, celebrating her many years on the stage and recording a successful TV show called SuSana Adiccion for Televisa Networks, broadcasted by Unicable.

 

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