Shamela, a young Cuban singer, which in Islamic means “youthful and jovial,” was born on December 3, 1983, in the Cuban capital. She grew up in a family of musicians, which greatly influenced her vocation for the arts, which she felt from a very young age, especially for music and dance. She studied singing at the “Félix Varela” School of Professional Development in Havana and dance under the direction of maestro Eduardo Veitía at the Spanish Dance School of the “García Lorca” Grand Theater of Havana (Paseo Martí No. 458, Old Havana, Havana).

Shamela’s first professional singing job was with the group “Son Peregrín,” led by her grandfather Pedro Peregrín Rodríguez, which cultivated the most traditional genres of Cuban music. With this group, she recorded her first album, released in 2007 under the Cuban label EGREM.

In 2005, the young artist joined the Cabaret Parisién of the Hotel Nacional de Cuba (Calle 0 corner 21, Vedado. Plaza de la Revolución, Havana City) as a dancer and singer of Variety shows. She also performed with the cast on her first international tour of Germany that same year.

Her artistic concerns prompted her to pursue a new project that would allow her to make her own music and offer a new image as a solo artist, so she created her own group that bears her same name. In the new group, under the direction of musician, arranger, and music producer Heber Méndez, Shamela is accompanied by seven young and talented musicians who graduated from the National School of Art (120th Street between 9th and 13th Streets, Cubanacán, Playa, Havana) and the Higher Institute of Art (ISA) (1110th Street between 9th and 13th Streets, Cubanacán, Playa, Havana).

With a format that includes piano, guitar, drums, bass, saxophone, keyboards and percussion, the Shamela group manages to satisfy the most up-to-date and demanding tastes in the musical world, through the excellent fusion they achieve between genres and styles as diverse as Son, Danzonete, Mambo and Cha-Cha-Cha, along with other foreign rhythms such as Jazz, Rock, Hip-Hop and Latin Pop.

The charismatic artist’s magnificent vocal abilities, combined with her wide-ranging stage presence, which always includes dance, have earned her and her group a place among audiences who closely follow the development of contemporary Cuban music.

With a repertoire of more than fifty songs, Shamela currently performs on various stages across the country. Her songs are played on the most important radio and TV stations and have also reached the top of the charts.