Daniela Andrade

{{Short description|Canadian singer-songwriter}} {{For|the Guatemalan footballer|Daniela Andrade (footballer)}} {{Use mdy dates | date = October 2020}}  {{Infobox musical artist | honorific_prefix = | name = Daniela Andrade | honorific_suffix = | image = Daniela Andrade 01 18 2017 -10 (32615623631).jpg | image_upright = | image_size = | landscape =  | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | alias = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1992|08|15}} | birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada | origin = | genre = Alternative rock,<br /> Independent music, <br /> R&B, Neo Soul | occupation = | instrument = | years_active = 2008 - present | label = Independent,<br /> Crooked Lid Records | website = {{URL|danielaandrade.com}} }}

'''Lesly Daniela Andrade Rivera''' (born 15 August 1992) is a Honduran-Canadian<ref name="Brown 2019"/><ref name="Burgos 2019"/> singer and songwriter. She started posting videos on YouTube of her covering songs from Beyonce, Nirvana and Edith Piaf in March 2008. She currently has a total of 1.99 million subscribers and over 300 million views on YouTube. She also posts music on SoundCloud and Spotify.

Andrade gained followers with songs like Coldplay's "The Scientist", and Frank Sinatra's "Fly Me to the Moon" in 2009, she soon increased the frequency of the post, and eventually released an EP of original songs, ''The Things We've Said'', in 2012. She then released a collection ''Covers, Vol. 1'', as well as ''The Christmas EP''. Her low-key version of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" went viral in 2014, as did her acoustic cover of Edith Piaf's "La Vie en Rose". Her music has also been featured in commercials and TV shows including ''Supergirl'', ''Suits'', and ''The Umbrella Academy''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Daniela Andrade {{!}} Biography & History |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/daniela-andrade-mn0003406079/biography |website=AllMusic |accessdate=8 March 2020 |language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Chua |first1=Dennis |title=Canadian musician and YouTube star Daniela Andrade leaps onto the Msian stage |url=https://www.nst.com.my/news/2016/10/178744/canadian-musician-and-youtube-star-daniela-andrade-leaps-msian-stage |website=NST Online |accessdate=8 March 2020 |language=en |date=7 October 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Sperounes |first1=Sandra |title=YouTube's Edmonton connections mark 10 years of sharing |url=http://www.edmontonjournal.com/YouTube+Edmonton+connections+mark+years+sharing/11041302/story.html |website=www.edmontonjournal.com |accessdate=8 March 2020 |language=en-ca |archive-date=December 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191205022104/http://www.edmontonjournal.com/YouTube+Edmonton+connections+mark+years+sharing/11041302/story.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

She won the Vista Prize in 2015<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fyimusicnews.ca/articles/2015/04/17/daniela-andrade-wins-vista-prize|title=Daniela Andrade Wins the Vista Prize|date=2015-04-17|website=FYIMusicNews|language=en|access-date=2020-03-12|archive-date=January 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108080215/https://www.fyimusicnews.ca/articles/2015/04/17/daniela-andrade-wins-vista-prize|url-status=dead}}</ref> and was nominated for the Premios Juventud in 2016 under the category favorite hit-maker.<ref>{{cite web |title=The 2016 Premios Juventud Nominees Are Revealed |url=http://www.pulsopop.com/2016-premios-juventud-nominees-revealed/ |website=PULSO POP |accessdate=8 March 2020 |date=12 May 2016}}</ref> In 2020, she won the Hi-Fidelity Award from the Prism Prize, to honour her innovative music videos.<ref>Chris Jancelewicz, [https://globalnews.ca/news/7185658/daniela-andrade-prism-prize-video/ "Daniela Andrade wins 2020 Prism Prize Hi-Fidelity Award for music video innovation"]. Global News, July 23, 2020.</ref>

== Personal life ==

Andrade was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in a financially difficult household<ref name="Andrade June 2011"/><ref name="Poitras 2016"/><ref name="Aghbali 2020"/> as the youngest of four siblings.<ref name="Billboard 2020"/> Her father, Necthaly (Nick) Andrade, was a former choir director and guitarist who immigrated from Honduras to Canada in 1987 and established a construction business in precast supply in 2003 in Edmonton, Alberta, which is where Andrade grew up in her childhood.<ref name="Andrade June 2011"/><ref name="Sperounes 2014"/><ref name="Aghbali 2020"/> Andrade's family belonged to a Seventh-day Adventist church, and keeping with the faith's prohibition of dance and music except in praise and service to God, Andrade's mother controlled the music in the family's house, even disapproving of Andrade's father's favourite music in mariachi and balladeers like Jose Luis Perales and Julio Iglesias.<ref name="Poitras 2016"/><ref name="Aghbali 2020"/> Nevertheless, many of Andrade's siblings sang, her father played guitar and so did she at age 13 being taught chords by her father, and she enjoyed singing growing up being inspired by her father.<ref name="Sperounes 2014"/><ref name="Aghbali 2020"/> She joined the praise team at her church and she had her first choir solo at age 6.<ref name="Aghbali 2020"/> Andrade would listen to bands online in her spare time like Metric and Linkin Park, and she also listened to Latina musicians like Selena, Shakira and Jennifer Lopez, which her parents did not always approve of.<ref name="Aghbali 2020"/> These early musical influences led to conflicted visions of her femininity and Latina heritage, where one path "promoted a sense of devotion to the church, to selflessness and to domesticity", while the other path was secular and involved "the dancing, the skin, the topic of being very open about your sexuality, [which] just seemed very far-fetched" to her.<ref name="Aghbali 2020"/>

Andrade was first exposed to YouTube while learning from it to improve her guitar playing.<ref name="Poitras 2016"/> She started her YouTube channel in high school in October 2008 with a video covering "Say It's Possible" by YouTuber and musician Terra Naomi,<ref name="Andrade 2008"/><ref name="Sperounes 2014"/> as a way to calm herself before an audition the next day for a singing competition in Calgary, Alberta, which she ultimately did not win; nevertheless she continued to post videos to YouTube of her playing covers around her family home.<ref name="Sperounes 2014"/><ref name="Aghbali 2020"/> Andrade gained followers with songs like Coldplay's "The Scientist", and Frank Sinatra's "Fly Me to the Moon", and in 2009, she increased the frequency of her posts and quickly grew in popularity.<ref name="Aghbali 2020"/>

In 2011, she graduated from Queen Elizabeth High School in Edmonton, and thereafter, she applied to the University of Alberta to eventually be an English teacher.<ref name="Sperounes 2014"/> She abandoned applying to university after she won $10,000 in September 2011 due to overwhelming fan votes in an online competition about musical inspirations with a video of herself & her father covering "Chiquitita" by ABBA, but in Spanish.<ref name="Andrade 2010"/><ref name="Andrade Sept 2011"/><ref name="Sperounes 2014"/> Andrade used the money to record and release an EP of her own original songs, ''Things We've Said'', in 2012 with producer and YouTuber Jesse Barrera in San Diego, California.<ref name="Sperounes 2014"/> She then released a collection ''Covers, Vol. 1'', as well as ''The Christmas EP''. Her low-key cover of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" went viral in 2014 and was featured in the second season of the Netflix show ''Umbrella Academy''.<ref name="Aghbali 2020"/> Her acoustic cover of Edith Piaf's "La Vie en Rose" also went viral.

She moved to Toronto, Ontario in December 2014, but then moved back to Montréal in the summer of 2015.<ref name="Poitras 2016"/> Andrade intended to produce a music video for her single "Genesis" in Honduras, but due to ongoing civil unrest, she produced the video in one week in Mexico, where emotionally-moving experiences reminded her of her mother and connected her more deeply to her Latin identity.<ref name="Aghbali 2020"/>

In January 2026, she released "i see red", the lead single for her March 2026 album ''Oda''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hussain |first=Shahzaib |date=2026-01-21 |title=Daniela Andrade's 'i see red' Is An Intergenerational Gem {{!}} News |url=https://www.clashmusic.com/news/daniele-andrades-i-see-red-is-an-intergenerational-gem/ |access-date=2026-01-26 |website=Clash Magazine |language=en-GB}}</ref>

== Discography ==

=== Albums ===

* ''Things We've Said'' (2012) * ''Covers, Vol.1'' (2013) * ''Tamale'' (2019) * ''Oda'' (2026)

=== EPs and singles ===

* ''Bright Blue'' (2011) * ''The Christmas EP'' (2013) * ''Latch'' (2014) * ''Crazy In Love'' (2014) * ''La Vie En Rose'' (2015) * ''Shore'' (2016) * ''Nothing Much Has Changed, I Don't Feel The Same'' (2020)

=== Music videos ===

*''Sound'' (2016) *''Shore'' (2016)<ref name="Poitras 2016"/> *''Digital Age'' (2016) *''Come around'' (2016) *''Gallo Pinto'' (2019) *''Genesis'' (2019) *''Sometimes I Don't (2019)'' *''Polly Pocket'' (2020) *''Tamale'' (2020) *''puddles'' (2020) *''K. L. F. G.'' (2020) *''Nothing Much Has Changed, I Don't Feel The Same'' (2020)

== References ==

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<ref name="Aghbali 2020"> {{cite news | last = Aghbali | first = Arman | title = After growing up on hymns and J.Lo, musician Daniela Andrade carves out her own Latina identity | url = https://www.cbc.ca/radio/tapestry/crafting-your-child-s-spirituality-musician-daniela-andrade-s-path-to-womanhood-1.5720522/after-growing-up-on-hymns-and-j-lo-musician-daniela-andrade-carves-out-her-own-latina-identity-1.5721037 | work = CBC | date = 2020-09-11 | access-date = 2020-10-09 }}</ref>

<ref name="Andrade 2008"> {{cite AV media | people = Daniela Andrade | date = 2008-10-24 | title = Say It's Possible- Terra Naomi (cover) | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0mDVPPoMw0 | medium = YouTube video | location = Edmonton, Canada | publisher = Daniela Andrade | access-date = 2020-10-09 }}</ref>

<ref name="Andrade 2010"> {{cite AV media | people = Daniela Andrade | date = 2010-04-10 | title = ABBA- Chiquitita (cover) | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HxnxyByXyA | medium = YouTube video | location = Edmonton, Canada | publisher = Daniela Andrade | access-date = 2020-10-09 }}</ref>

<ref name="Andrade June 2011"> {{cite AV media | people = Daniela Andrade | date = 2011-06-02 | title = Daniela Andrade- Whoinspiresu.ca video contest entry | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYQuzjgmyPw | medium = YouTube video | location = Edmonton, Canada | publisher = WhoInspiresU? | access-date = 2020-10-09 }}</ref>

<ref name="Andrade Sept 2011"> {{cite AV media | people = Daniela Andrade | date = 2011-09-24 | title = Vicente Fernandez - Si Nos Dejan (cover) Daniela Andrade & Dad | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz-nBGGtZSY | medium = YouTube video | location = Edmonton, Canada | publisher = Daniela Andrade | access-date = 2020-10-09 }}</ref>

<ref name="Billboard 2020"> {{cite magazine | last = Bustios | first = Pamela | title = Latin Artist On the Rise: Meet Daniela Andrade | url = https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/daniela-andrade-latin-artist-rise-9344772/ | magazine = Billboard | date = 2020-03-27 | access-date = 2020-10-29 }}</ref>

<ref name="Brown 2019"> {{cite news | last = Brown | first = Bianca | title = From YouTube Covers to Covering the Globe: Daniela Andrade Releases 'Ayayai' | url = https://www.onestowatch.com/blog/from-youtube-covers-to-covering-the-globe-daniela | work = Ones to Watch | date = 2019-09-18 | access-date = 2020-10-09 }}</ref>

<ref name="Burgos 2019"> {{cite news | last = Burgos | first = Jenzia | title = Meet Daniela Andrade, the Dreamy DIY Songstress Who Isn't Stopping at YouTube Success | url = https://remezcla.com/features/music/daniela-andrade-songs-gallo-pinto-youtube-success/ | work = Remezcla | date = 2019-10-16 | access-date = 2020-10-09 }}</ref>

<ref name="Poitras 2016"> {{cite news | last = Poitras | first = Marie Hélène | title = Daniela Andrade: Message in a Bottle | url = https://www.socanmagazine.ca/features/daniela-andrade-message-in-a-bottle/ | work = SOCAN Magazine | date = 2016-07-26 | access-date = 2020-10-09 }}</ref>

<ref name="Sperounes 2014"> {{cite news | last = Sperounes | first = Sandra | title = A cold Sunday afternoon is perfect for ... | url = https://edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/music/a-cold-sunday-afternoon-is-perfect-for | work = Edmonton Journal | date = 2015-01-04 | publication-date = 2014-01-25 | access-date = 2020-10-09 }}</ref>

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