She has been the opening act for Rod Stewart, Gloria Gaynor & Luis Salinas, and has participated in festivals in Spain and around the world (Argentina, Morocco, Cuba & France). She represented the Canary Islands at Expo Zaragoza 2008 and has worked alongside artists such as Richard Bona, Kike Perdomo, Pablo Cebrián, Chago Melián, Rogelio Botanz & Fabiola Socas, among many others.
Her first album was released in 2005, produced by Kike Perdomo and with the collaboration of Cameroonian bassist Richard Bona. In 2010 she released Historias compartidas (Shared Stories), that included the piece ‘ Ni una lágrima’ (Not a Tear), which won the second prize in the national competition ‘Rimas contra la Violencia de Género’ (Rhymes against Domestic Violence) of that year. The album The Lady Is Still Alive was released in 2011, a tribute to the great jazz divas, which she presented at the Festival Canarias Jazz & Más Heineken.
In 2014 the album Gerunds was launched, this time under the artistic name of ‘Ricca’. Produced by Pablo Cebrián (who collaborated with Sabina, Serrat & India Martínez), this work has been played on RNE, Radio 3 and several different international stations. Using ‘Ricca’, Esther Ovejero has performed in venues throughout the country and Europe, as well as at festivals such as the Canarias Jazz & Más.
She also featured on the billing of the Tenerife Festival Noir, and has been collaborating on a regular basis in the Tenerife International Film Music Festival (Fimucité) since the year 2011. Likewise, she renders her powerful voice both to the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra as well as the Canary Islands Big Band, with whom she recorded an album on the ‘Varèse Sarabande’ label.
Esther Ovejero: vocals
Eliseo Lloreda: guitar
Felu Morales: bass
Dimas Machado: drums
Fernando Barrios: sax