Biography
Marcela Alejandra Bovio García (born October 17, 1979 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico) is a Mexican musician. She was one of the founding members of the Mexican band Elfonía, she responded to a "casting call" of sorts for relatively unknown singers to be featured on Arjen Anthony Lucassen's Ayreon album The Human Equation where she landed the part of his "Wife".
Marcela also sang on the bonus disc of the re-release of the first Ayreon album The Final Experiment. Later, she was picked as the lead singer of another Lucassen project, Stream of Passion (in which she also plays the violin, one of the defining sounds of the band) who have released a full length album, Embrace the Storm as well as a single, Out In The Real World, and a live album, Live In The Real World.
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In 2005, he also picked her for his new project, the progressive metal band Stream of Passion. The band released their debut album Embrace the Storm the same year, with Bovio acting as sole lyricist. Lucassen left the band to continue on its own in 2007; this resulted in Bovio acting as band leader and one of the main songwriters (including for composition) on subsequent albums.v Stream of Passion amicably disbanded in December 2016.
In September 2016, Bovio independently released her first solo album, Unprecedented, a classical album consisting of original songs she wrote; it was followed by Through Your Eyes in 2018. She joined MaYaN as a full-time member in 2017, after regular collaborations with the band since 2013. She regularly acts as backing vocalist for other bands, notably Epica and The Gentle Storm, and was also one of the founding members of VUUR in 2016
Official site: www.marcelabovio.com
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.