Isabella Castillo Díaz, best known by her stage name Isabella Castillo, is a singer and actress born in Havana, Cuba.
Background
Isabella Castillo was born on 23 December 1994, daughter of the singer Delia Díaz de Villegas and the percussionist José Castillo. At the age of five she debuted as a singer in one of her mother"s concerts: from that moment, she took dancing, singing and acting lessons, studying music at Musical Procenter and winning four times the Grand Prize at the Youth Fair of the Florida International University.
Career
Her best known role is that of Graciela "Grachi" Alonso, main character of the Nickelodeon Latin America"s series Grachi, for which has released several songs. She has an elder sister, Giselle, a pianist and music teacher. In 1997, at the age of three, she emigrated to Belize, moving to Miami, Florida, some months later.
In 2007 she gained the Magnet Outstanding Performance recognition at the South Miami Middle Community School and she was invited to honor the neo-elected president of Israel Shimon Peres.
Again in 2007, persuaded by the producer Óscar Gómez, she started an intensive course of acting with the Cuban actress Lili Rentería, preparing for the audition in Madrid for the musical El diario de Ana Frank – Un canto a la vida. Moving in Spain with her family, after three rounds of auditions she was given the main role.
During the broadcast, in February 2012, of the second of three seasons, Castillo participated in the musical Grachi: El show en vivo. On 21 February 2013 she signed with Warner Music Latina for her first album, Soñar no Cuesta Nada, released on 23 April.
In September 2014, singer Patricio Arellano published his third album, featuring a duet with Castillo titled "Quebec duermas conmigo", and on 21 October, she was announced in the cast of the new telenovela Tierra de reyes with the dual role of Alma Gallardo and Verónica Saldívarious
She then starred in another telenovela, ¿Quién es quién?. Meanwhile, she acted in Araceli Álvarez de Sotomayor"s Tacones enanos, a spanish theater play, from 9 December 2015 to 10 January 2016.