Born in Caracas and based in Lyon since 2012, Venezuelan singer, percussionist, composer and musicologist Rebecca Roger Cruz has just released her first solo album, Río Abajo (2025), following her work with Aa’in, Parranda La Cruz and Maar. Across the arrangements of a superb quartet and through her exceptional, metamorphic, timeless voice, she brings together Afro-Venezuelan percussion, ancestral rites from Barlovento, Latin American popular song, baroque and lyrical repertoires, jazz, psychedelic rock and flamenco. Free and radiant, incantatory yet intimate, her music knows no borders.
Born in Caracas and based in Lyon since 2012, Venezuelan singer, percussionist, composer and musicologist Rebecca Roger Cruz has just released her first solo album, Río Abajo (2025), following her work with Aa’in, Parranda La Cruz and Maar. Across the arrangements of a superb quartet and through her exceptional, metamorphic, timeless voice, she brings together Afro-Venezuelan percussion, ancestral rites from Barlovento, Latin American popular song, baroque and lyrical repertoires, jazz, psychedelic rock and flamenco. Free and radiant, incantatory yet intimate, her music knows no borders.
BIOGRAPHY
> REBECCA ROGER CRUZ (Venezuela)
Born in Caracas and arriving in France in 2012, settling in Lyon to pursue musicology studies, Venezuelan singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and musicologist Rebecca Roger Cruz was first shaped by Latin American and Iberian song, as well as by the ancestral rites and percussion of Barlovento. Then came psychedelic rock in adolescence, followed by an initiation into jazz and traditional music, alongside rigorous training in classical and early music. Passionate about transformation and the changing possibilities of the voice, and closely connected to dance, theatre, poetry and cinema, she became involved with the groups AA’IN, MAAAR and Parranda La Cruz, a cultural meeting point between La Réunion and Venezuela. With her first solo album, Río Abajo (2025, Airfono label), she weaves together early music, traditional music, collective forms and improvisation into a unique and unclassifiable musical landscape at the crossroads of baroque, popular song, flamenco and rock.
