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"The music is edgy and brilliant. Its energy is turbulent and visceral, and beautiful. Tisera sings with wondrous colouratura, in employing motifs and melismas awoken by radical ideas and revolutionary recitatives. Her music is also dramatically transformed by generational folklore, melded with Afro-centric and Spanish influences; just enough to suggest jazz idioms. And this is what makes it such an extraordinary recording..."

Gian-Carla speaks to Los Tiempos Newspaper (Bolivia) about her new Tropical Album in collaboration with Dominican Producer Arturo Pena.

Nora la Bella CD Review by Takehiko Tak Tokiwa of Jazz Tokyo Magazine: "Her singing is dramatic...the way in which she sings creates a great fusion with Latin rhythms. The mark she leaves in the musical stage of the American continent is deserving of great atention." 

Crítica de Nora la Bella por la revista Jazz Tokyo: "Su canto es dramático...la forma en la canta se mezcla muy bien con los ritmos latinos. La huella que Tisera deja en el continente Americano merece mucha atención."

"A release that boasts its own strikingly singular personality is the bracing, multicultural outing Nora La Bella (Rebeliosa Music) by New York City-based Bolivian soprano Gian-Carla and an all-star ensemble...Tisera and company deliver some of the most original sounds heard in years."

Nora la Bella en Beat Latino: Estrenos del Mundo Alternativo por la gran Catalina María Johnson. - Nora la Bella featured in Beat Latino by the Awesome Maria Catalina Johnson and The Alternative World Music Releases Magazine.

"Want some music that mixes the passionate sensuality of latin folk with the hard swing of jazz? Here’s a lady that delivers. Bolivian vocalist Gian-Carla Tisera has a husky and earthy voice with an at times operatic quality and delivery as she goes through every emotion in the book on this sizzling release."

Veintiseis mujeres con historias de éxito fueron reconocidas ayer, durante el Vigésimo Aniversario del premio Mujeres Destacadas que El Diario entrega cada año para celebrar el trabajo de educadoras, artistas, activistas, políticas y profesionales de todas las ramas, quienes con su trabajo ayudan al mejoramiento de la comunidad hispana de Nueva York. 

"Language is not an issue as the beauty and power of Tisera's sublime gift allows the listener the rare opportunity to simply become enveloped in a lyrical wonderland that few have the ability to communicate...an absolutely stunning vocal experience." - Brent Black

"Nora la Bella is an album that effortlessly applies operatic techniques and control to a Latin American Folklore and Jazz Inspired songbook. With a unique fusion of Opera, Bolivian folk music and Latin jazz, Nora la Bella is a striking musical journey worth taking." 

Boliviana rompe las reglas de la opera en Estados Unidos.

"A Bolivian singer breaks the rules of opera in the United States: Now as an independent artist and backed up by her new album 'Nora la Bella', she returns to Bolivia for a tour that includes the cities of La Paz, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz and Tarija."

"You've never heard anything like Gian-Carla Tisera’s 'Nora la Bella'...quite possibly a game-changer...you can only welcome it entirely, and you can’t help but admire her bravado. This is Tisera’s jazz opera, and it is righteous." 

"La cantante residente en Nueva York mezcla jazz, música folclórica de su país, música antillana y técnicas operísticas de canto en su primer disco, 'Nora la Bella'."

"The New York-based Bolivian vocalist fuses jazz, Bolivian folk music, Latin American traditional music and operatic singing techniques in her debut album, 'Nora la Bella'."

Pie Derecho Magazine Covers the Official 'Nora la Bella' CD Release Concert at Americas Society in New York City on September 30th, 2014.

CHICAGO – El 15 del mes actual, se inicia el mes de la Hispanidad, el cual celebra la herencia hispana de los ciudadanos del país. Sin duda alguna, esta herencia ha aportado inestimable riqueza cultural a los Estados Unidos, entre lo que contamos los talentos que han compartido artistas musicales inmigrantes e hijos de inmigrantes.

"If you’re up for something different—something where traditional genres are combined and played off against each other in the interest of a new aesthetic vision, take a look at Bolivian soprano Gian-Carla Tisera’s August release Nora La Bella. Not only does the album mix jazz elements with traditional Latin roots music—that is nothing exceptionally new—but given a diva with a gorgeous operatic voice, there is that to add to the mix as well."

"Tisera embodied all, deliciously waxing and waning through three poems and the characters who speak them. The musical motifs, derived from rock, flamenco and heavy metal, melded surprisingly well with Tisera's expressive soprano..."

Interview by Página 7 in La Paz, Bolivia: "The artist remembers the beginning of her career and the motivation to explore the fusion of Bolivian rhythms with classical music." 

"Her femininity and talent explode on the stages of the world and her own vocal chords are the instruments with which she manages to shake the souls of those who listen to her."

Bolivian Vocalist Showcases Operatic Roots and Creates Latin American Folklore and Jazz Inspired Album: On Nora La Bella, her debut recording, New York-based Bolivian soprano Gian-Carla makes bold, daring crossings between opera, jazz and Latin American folk music, art song and political song, experimentation and roots music..."

MUSIC IS MY CALLING - The Virtuosic Singer Fuses Opera Vocality with Jazz and Traditional Latin Rhythms.

"...Tisera, sobre el repertorio de Nora la Bella, un sueño artístico con mucho significado y con una historia de pasión, entrega, talento y expresión que cuenta en esta entrevista exclusiva con ¡OH!." 

"TISERA SINGING WITH THRILLING YET SUPERBLY REFINED EMOTION..."

Bolivian Pride and Stars that Shine Beyond Our Borders: "Her music reflects her identity and rich cultural inheritance, colored by memories of her homeland...a unique artist that recognizes she speaks a universal language that makes her a citizen of the world." 

"Su música refleja su identidad y rica herencia cultural, matizada con recuerdos de su tierra natal...una artísta única, que reconoce que habla un idioma universal que la convierte en ciudadana del mundo."

Gian-Carla dazzels at the Teatro Municipal, La Paz, Bolivia

"THE LOVELY TISERA, LIKE THE PROVERBIAL BIRD, SINGING WITH STUNNING POWER AND WARMTH."

Gian-Carla speaks to La Veridica.com about politics, culture and identity in her music.

"Sometimes I lose faith but the world always surprises me with something positive" - An upclose and personal interview after the singer's Bolivian Tour by El Deber Newspaper in Santa Cruz. 

Gian-Carla Interviewed by La Razón Newspaper for the Bolivian Tour at Teatro Municipal. 

"AN ENCHANTING SMALL HANDFUL OF MEZZO-SOPRANO"

"TISERA SUNG WITH AN INTERPRETATIVE FORCE IN UNISON WITH THAT OF AN OPERATIC HEROINE"