{"id":2597,"date":"2020-04-07T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjagradio.com\/theideamagazine\/?p=2597"},"modified":"2020-04-07T21:08:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T02:08:18","slug":"latinx-pop-artist-gina-chavez-releasing-new-female-empowerment-anthem-she-persisted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/latinx-pop-artist-gina-chavez-releasing-new-female-empowerment-anthem-she-persisted\/","title":{"rendered":"Latinx Pop artist GINA CHAVEZ releasing new female empowerment anthem “She Persisted”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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Growing up in Austin, TX, Gina Chavez didn\u2019t pick up a guitar until she was in college. The instrument proved to be her ticket around the world. Since then, she has traveled to Japan as a cultural ambassador for the city of Austin. She also toured the world as a cultural ambassador with the US State Dept, performing to international audiences in 10 countries. To date, Chavez has won multiple awards, including 12 Austin Music Awards and the Grand Prize for the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. She topped the iTunes and Amazon Latin charts with her second album,\u00a0Up.Rooted<\/em>.\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Chavez\u2019s multi-ethnic folk-pop sound also won her spotlights on national TV and radio shows in the US. She has been featured on NPR\u2019s three nationally broadcast shows: \u00a0First Listen, All Things Considered<\/em><\/strong>, and<\/em>\u00a0Tiny Desk Concerts<\/em><\/strong>. Her performances garnered nearly 1 million views on YouTube and earned her a spot on NPR\u2019s Top 15 Tiny Desk Concerts. She also was chosen to perform at The Kate on a nationally televised hour-long episode on PBS.

To date, the artist has released three award-winning albums that showcase Chavez\u2019s versatility as a songwriter and performer: her acoustic folk-pop debut album\u00a0Hanging Spoons<\/em>\u00a0(2007), her Spanish\/English album\u00a0Up.Rooted<\/em>\u00a0(2014) and her soul\/R&B EP\u00a0Lightbeam<\/em>\u00a0(2018).\u00a0

Currently, Chavez lives in Austin with her wife, Jodi Granado. Together, they co-founded the Ni\u00f1as Arriba, a college fund that offers full scholarships to a private, Catholic university for young girls in Soyapango, El Salvadore.<\/div>\n
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\u201cGina Chavez has a gift for emotional connection, with a radiant voice 
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If the future is female, then Gina Chavez<\/strong> is the poster child. The multi-ethnic, Austin native is a queer, Catholic, internationally-acclaimed Latinx pop artist who won’t take no for an answer. She is proud to release her new song of female empowerment, “She Persisted,”<\/strong> out on Super Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020. <\/strong>

Chavez was inspired to write this song “by the moment Mitch McConnell silenced Elizabeth Warren on the senate floor.”<\/em>  She says, “His words are sampled in the song, ‘Nevertheless, she persisted,’ the same words that became a rallying cry for women all over the U.S. and the world. Because it\u2019s what women do…we persist!”<\/em>

Gina Chavez has toured in 10 countries as cultural ambassador for the US State Department. She also has won 12 Austin Music Awards, has performed on NPR (garnering 1 million views) and PBS, and has topped the Latin charts on iTunes and Amazon.  

Chavez will release her fourth album, her first all-Spanish album, La Que Manda,<\/em> in May 2020.”She Persisted” will be available for purchase or streaming exclusively on GinaChavez.com<\/a> starting Tuesday, March 3, 2020.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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