Beatriz Luengo
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Beatriz Luengo (born December 23, 1982 in Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish actress, singer and dancer. She released her first album Mi Generación in 2005.
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Beatriz Luengo was born in Madrid on 23 December 1982. The daughter of Angelines and Juan, she grew up and lived in the district of Hortaleza. In her free time, she played in the district basketball team and, in spite of her height, was the best player. She considered herself like Chicho Terremoto, small but brave.
It was not until she was six years old that she began to be interested in show business, after seeing a TV broadcast of the musical Cabaret starring Liza Minelli, who became a role model for her and has remained so. She studied until COU and made interpretation studies. She has specialized in singing with the best teachers. Her dance training was acquired at the Royal Academy of Dance, where she studied ballet, jazz dance, Funky and flamenco.
When she was ten, she formed a musical group called Tatu with two childhood friends. They recorded a CD but the record label went out of business and the CD was not published. Disillusioned, Beatriz gave up attending casting calls. After months, her mother persuaded her to try auditioning as a dancer in the Rita and Miliki Circus, which she did, successfully. Later, she danced in different TV spots of TVE and was the singer in the TV program Esto Me Suena, beginning her busy career in theater and televisión. After that, she performed in musicals like La Magia de Broadway I and II, Annie, Jekyll & Hyde, Hermanos de Sangre and three times in Peter Pan. In those musicals she played roles alongside other major Spanish artists like Marta Sanchez, Serafín Zubiri or Carlos Marín (Il Divo; even if she didn`t play always the leading role, she had the chance to work with such professionals as the late producer Luis Ramirez, musical directors Alberto Quintero and Cesar Belda, and choreographerLuka Yesi.
Beatriz had her first appearance in a feature film in Pasión Adolescente in the year 2000.
In television, she appeared in episodes of Spanish soap operas such as Robles Investigador Privado, Policías, Periodistas and El Comisario. In 2001, Beatriz was chosen to star in Un Paso Adelante, which made her very well-known in Spain, Europe and some South American countries; it was here that the musical group Upa Dance was born. Upa Dance sold more than 600,000 copies of their first record.
In spite of the big success of Upa Dance and the amount of their concerts, Beatriz has wanted to develop new musical and creative interests, reason by which she began to imagine her artistic proposal.
It was then when, under a global concept of fusion music, Beatriz began to work with rhythmic basis that came from artists from Belgium, United States, and Spain. She created her own melodies, her own music, and an innovative, original sound. The result is Mi Generación, her first solo album, that identifies her musical influences: Rythhm'n'Blues and black music, without forgetting rock, rap, and hip-hop, adding what she considers is the most interesting thing about her own culture: Flamenco.
