Biography
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti is a Bolivian-born singer and multi-medium performer. Frank Rosaly is a renowned expat jazz drummer from Chicago, United States. Partners in both marriage and art, the Amsterdam, The Netherlands-based Ferragutti and Rosaly recorded and released an album together, entitled Mestizx (May 2024), their début album as co-composers, arrangers and musicians.
The duo dove into the sounds of their respective ancestral roots in Bolivia, Brazil, and Puerto Rico to create a deeply personal meditation on decolonization and the defiant power of ritual and protest. They chose the album title, a non-gendered version of the sometimes slurred Spanish colonial word for a 'mixed person', as a means of both challenging and embracing the liminality of their identities and artistic practices.
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