Background
Cáceres was born in Croatia in a Czechoslovakian-Slovenian family.
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Vesna Caceres
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She studied the accordion in Croatia. In 1990, she came to study musicology at Charles University in Prague. In addition to musicology, she studied singing at the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory, sang in the vocal sextet Prestissimo with Big Band of Radio Prague.
In 1993, she represented the Czechoslovakian Republic in the World Youth Choir.
Career
She lived in Prague since 1990. In 1996, she founded her group Anima Band together with the Mexican guitarist Pablo Ortiz. With Anima, she performed in clubs, at concerts and festivals in the Czechoslovakian Republic and abroad, with a repertoire that included original arrangements of Brazilian and Latin American music and her own compositions.
Foreign four years she moderated the Czechoslovakian-Spanish program Contacto Latino at Radio 1.
Since the late nineties she has expanded her repertoire to include jazz standards and her own jazz compositions. With a repertoire of swing & bossa she performs at jazz clubs in the Czechoslovakian Republic and abroad.
In 2004, she began a solo career as a chanson singer interpreting songs to texts by French and Czechoslovakian poets, as well as her own songs, accompanying on accordion. Since 2004, she has participated in various theatre projects, writing and playing music for theatre performances.
