Career
She is the lead singer in where she also plays the acoustic guitar. In March 2005 her debut solo album "Andrea Echeverri" was released by Nacional Records, a label focused on promoting the best in Latin alternative music Andrea is of Basque descent.
According to National Public Radio"s Felix Contreras "lieutenant"s possible to chart the development of Latin Alternative music by following the career of Andrea Echeverri." The result is the self-titled album Andrea Echeverri, her first solo release.
On "A Eme O", the album"s upbeat first single, Echeverri sings “Since you were born, I"ve become a better lover. "Some songs are written for Milagros, but they sound like they"re written for a lover," said Andrea.
Going ever further, she satirizes the highly sexualized lyrics of the Colombian genre called champeta, naming one of the album"s tracks "Lactochampeta". “lieutenant"s kind of a joke, because it has explicit lyrics about lactating,” muses Andrea.
A series of tour dates followed the album"s release, including headlining the Latin Alternative Music Conference"s Women Who Rock concert in front of 10,000 people at the Santa Monica Pier in Los Angeles, as well as the Louisiana Banda Elastica Magazine Awards.
In December 2007 Echeverri exhibited her ceramic works at the Feria del Libro in Guadalajara, Mexico, where she also performed with In 2006 the album received two nominations for the Premios Lo Nuestro Awards – "Rock Album of the Year" and "Song of the Year" for the single “A Eme O.” Echeverri is currently working and performing with Hector Buitrago in their group Their album “Oye,” released by Nacional Records in 2006 was awarded a Latin Grammy for "Best Alternative Album" in November 2007. Their latest album is "Rio" which released in October 2008. Grammy Latin Grammy.
