Shery is a new, passionate singer, songwriter and producer, gifted with a voice that captivates the senses and will forever steal your heart. She writes and performs inspired, organic songs distilled right from her soul, transcending the barriers of language.
Her debut album, El Amor es un Fantasma (Love is a Ghost), is named after the first song she ever wrote, which remained for 26 straight weeks in the Guatemalan Top 40 - a first for any local artist.
Shery has scored four #1 radio hits nationwide in her country, and is a two-time finalist (among 15,000 entries from all over the world), in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, from New York.
She has shared stage with Latin superstars such as Chayanne, Enrique Iglesias, Miguel Bose and Aleks Syntek. Shery is currently the most listened to Guatemalan artist in MySpace, second only to Ricardo Arjona. Her Hi5 profile (shery1.hi5.com) is the most popular in the world.
Shery: Love is a Ghost
Family legend says she learned to sing before being able to speak, repeating for hours what she heard on the albums her mom played relentlessly night and day.
Shery is a new, passionate singer and songwriter, gifted with a voice that captivates the senses and go deep inside the heart. She writes and performs inspired, organic songs distilled right from her soul, transcending the barriers of language.
Through her very own brand of melodic, sensual pop, Shery celebrates the shadows, the ecstasies and, above all, the agonies of love.
Her journey as an artist began very early in life, with a mop handle as a microphone, a broom passing for guitar, an army of kitchen pots turned into drum set, and her face hidden behind layers of flour, as she and her brothers transmuted into the mega band Kiss.
Now, after two and a half years of relentless work, scoring in the process four #1 hits on the radio charts nationwide in her country, this raising star from Guatemala has just released her debut album, El Amor es un Fantasma (in English: Love Is a Ghost), an irresistible torrent of 13 original songs, each alive with its own aura of melodic genius.
Two guest compositions complete the track list: one from Jose Luis Perales, the great Spanish romantico, and one by talented producer Francesco Sondelli, who also joins Shery for a soul-shaking duet in Italian. Other duets included feature Guatemalan vocalist Jorge "el Bardo", and Cuban-American singer Daniel Rene, former member of teen band Menudo / MDO.
The album includes a track mixed by Eddie Kramer, legendary producer of Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Kiss, The Rolling Stones, Joe Cocker, Carlos Santana and David Bowie.
El Amor es un Fantasma is named after the first song Shery ever wrote, a mellow, intimate track which scored 26 straight weeks in the Guatemalan Top 40, earned her a medal in the World Championships of the Performing Arts, in Hollywood, and was selected one of the winners of the Unisong Songwriting Competition. Shery is a two-time finalist in the prestigious John Lennon Songwriting Contest, selected among 15,000 entries from all over the world.
Her career started three years ago, when what was intended to be an intimate night for just a small circle of friends, became a totally sold-out venue, inundated by raving fans mesmerized with the passion of a girl brave enough to climb on stage and sing her heart out, performing in public for the first time songs she had not written to share with others, but to exorcize her own shadows.
Since that fist night Shery has performed widely, sharing stage with Latin superstars the likes of Enrique Iglesias, Chayanne, Christian Castro, Manuel Mijares, Miguel Bose and Aleks Syntek. She did her first US appearance in Washington D.C. invited by the Guatemalan Embassy. She has been a guest artist in every single national T.V. and radio show in her country, and has been featured a massive number of times in magazines, newspapers and online publications.
After fleeing home before turning 15 to pursue the unavoidable call of music, Shery had to keep since very young a wide variety of jobs, working hard to make ends meet and complete her education. Not even the monthly struggle to keep the rent paid, or the far-too-frequent empty fridge were enough for even thinking of giving up her dream.
Today, while keeping a busy promotional, travel and performing schedule, she dedicates hours every day personally replying to the growing army of fans who reach her from all corners of the world through her website www.shery.net, MySpace page, and official Hi5 profile (shery1.hi5.com), which arguably has become the most popular in the world.
When she is not on-stage performing, Shery is writing, producing, arranging and recording. She is currently working on her second album, and has English and Italian versions of her songs in the drawing board. Had she not become a professional musician, Shery would have been a mochila world traveler.