Background
Maika Ceres was born in the city of Montevideo, Uruguay. In her shows she has sung in Italian, Portuguese, Galician, English, German and Czechoslovakian as well as in her mother tongue Spanish.
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She currently resides in Bavaria, Germany. She is of Portuguese, Italian and Spanish ancestry. At the age of 6 she started playing piano and took classical piano lessons for 9 years as well as singing lessons but began classical vocal training at age 17, specializing in Lied music
She also plays the Native American Flute (Lakota) and the Galician traditional tambourine (pandeireta galega).
Ceres is also an avid traditional archer and uses a longbow for practices and competitions. 2005–2012: Music She has sung in the most important venues of Uruguay such as:
Solís Theatre
Gran Teatro Plaza
Sala Zitarrosa
Piria"s Castle
Maroñas (Gran Premio Ramirez) Live television
Radisson Victoria Plaza Live television
She has also offered many recitals for United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund and various musical tributes.
Since the year 2008 she works with Emil Montgomery, a producer / composer of experimental electronic music With him she offered her first massive concert: “Astrodomus”, at Piria’s Castle, on February 27, 2009, before over 20.000 people.
She was part of "The path of the Sun, a country in concert" a national tour that promoted the cultural and historical heritage of Uruguay through shows in different parts of the country.
She has been by the side of Montgomery as his lead singer in Imaginaria, playing great classics of music and FaroSur, an international festival featuring prominent national and international artists to promote peace and respect for the environment. Sharing the stage with musicians such as Kitaro and Suzanne Ciani. Maika has participated in both collective and individual concerts in the Traditional Folk music scene in Uruguay on several Uruguayan Celtic music Festivals.
She also continues with her classical concerts, singing mostly Lied repertoire.
Her unique voice and musical style made possible the fact that over the years she was able to merge both Celtic and Anglo-Folk together with opera-like singing, resulting in a unique and exceptional sound of her song versions. 2013–present
Ceres recorded as a guest vocalist for a metal album in Germany. in Helion Studios.
The band launched the first single "Playing" on July 1st, via Facebook.
