Natalia Bernal

Chilean vocalist Natalia Bernal was raised in the beautiful coastal city of Iquique, nestled between the Pacific Ocean and the Atacama Desert. Her sound embodies the drama and intensity of the natural surroundings of her homeland. From an early age, Bernal was immersed in a rich musical tradition: she learned the great Latin American standards from her Chilean father and Uruguayan mother, and she breathed deeply the “música popular” from Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Cuba, Peru, and Brazil. Through her studies at Escuela Moderna de Música in Chile and Berklee College of Music in the U.S., Bernal expanded her jazz vocabulary to create a sumptuous tapestry of sound that remains suffused with the rhythms and melodies and trovadores of Latin America.