ABOUT
Angelica Carrasco, known by her stage name Angel Carra is a bilingual singer, songwriter, and actor born and raised in an artistic family in Venezuela, where she began singing at age five, next to four siblings in a band founded by her parents in the 90s
Strongly influenced by the sounds of Sade, Eminem, Enrique Iglesias, Amy Lee, and Dido, among others, she began writing and recording quirky love songs besides one of her brothers that, as she recalls jokingly, "no one could understand."
Driven by a keen desire for the performing arts, in 2013, she moved to New York to attend The Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute for the fall program while working as a freelance model and TV host. After drama school, she left New York and returned to Venezuela to reunite with her family. Unbeknownst to her, an economic and political crisis was brewing.
"Being forced to escape from your hometown under physically frail conditions due to the abuses and corruption from its government while trying to catch your bits and pieces falling along the way demands a strength like no other."
Angel recalls her experience of having to leave her country for good in 2017 forcefully.
At the time, she fell critically ill from an untreated sinus infection, which developed into lymphadenopathy, resulting in four scars across her neck. She couldn't receive the proper treatment due to a critical shortage of medicine that struck the country nationwide. The lack of medicine and medical supplies was due to corruption and mismanagement by Venezuela's government. Despite feeling frail and under no physical conditions to travel, she had no choice but to leave her hometown and head to the US, fortunately so.
"Many people in desperate need of medicine didn't make it, and it breaks my heart to know it was all preventable if only the government would've given a damn about its people."
In retrospect, Angel Carra reflects on how such an awry situation was the catalyst that brought her to the City of Angels, galvanizing her even more and allowing her to rewrite her story and share it through music.
Today, she's embarked on a hot-blooded musical journey loaded with vulnerability, courage, and a refreshingly peculiar energy. She fuses English and Spanish lyrics in a sultry-soulful tone through a beat that spans from categorically Latin to Dark-Pop or a hybrid of both.
In the summer of 2022, she released her first two singles, "Amarme" (Love Myself) and "Libre" (Free), both in Spanglish, a Latin mid-tempo beat, with R&B flares. And at the start of 2023, she released her third single, "Que Será," and her latest, "Swallow Me."
Besides working on other artistic projects, she's working on new music, performing locally in LA, and releasing a couple more singles in the following months.
Her vision delves into inspiring, and uniting the Latino-Hispanic and American communities by creating music that nourishes, empowers the soul, and fuels the imagination. As well as actively participating in social and political issues affecting the most vulnerable.
