Noemí Carrión


Noemí Carrión Pérez, is a Spanish singer, dancer, and actress, known also as Naymi and Noemí. Her work encompasses studio recording, songwriting, live performance, and television presenting.

Biography

Background

Noemí Carrión, who originates from Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain, is a solo artist who has also been part of numerous groups including Nómadas and Nieva,. She was a singer in the popular Spanish group La Década Prodigiosa and has also been a featured artiste with Mito and Sugar Reef. Carrión has sung with musicians from :es:Seguridad Social |Seguirdad Social, UB40 and :es:Revólver |Revólver, and been a guest vocalist for recording artists such as Marc Antoine. She has worked with numerous members of the Spanish music industry, including award-winning record producer Antonio Escobar, Level Records producer David Ferrero and Universal Music producer Carlos Quintero, recording in many of the important recording studios of Madrid.
musical career at 16 in Alicante, by winning various musical contests in Spanish cities, recording for advertising jingles, adding her voice to the songs of other artists and acting in shows. At 21, she settled in Madrid to study music, composition, voice, guitar, percussion, violin, modern dance, dramatic art, music history and music interpretation, for theater, movies and television. As well as 3 years of study at La Strada and El Almadén stage & drama schools, she took courses in Hip Hop, Latin American, Jazz and Street dance styles, in interpretive charisma, in dubbing (with the prestigious José Padilla, and in acting interpretation with actress & casting director Rosa Estévez. In 1997, she independently released Fruta Prohibida, followed in 1998, by Pachá Alicante.

Commercial success

Carrión participated in the Televisión Española festival show :es:Eurocanción|Eurocanción, aired on TVE1, as Noemí, becoming a finalist in the Spanish Eurovision Contest. In the competition, she scored 63 points, with her song "Sin Rencor", reaching 4th position, above Merche, Sonia & Selena and Natalia. She has also sung at important festivals in Spain including The DJ Awards, Festival Freedom and El Mediatic in Alicante.
In 2002, her dance-pop track, the funky house anthem "Friday Night Forever", written by Swedish songwriters, Peder Ernerot & Gustav Lund, and recorded under the alias Naymi, hit the charts of :es:Máxima FM|Máxima FM and was well received in the clubs and on the radio. Distributed in Spain, Portugal, Italy, US, UK and Russia, DJ Magazine gave the record, which was recorded in English and in Spanish, top star ratings in September 2002. The Club mixes were produced by the most famous DJs and house producers in Spain – David Ferrero, Pedro Del Moral, Dr Kucho! and Wally López, who according to the same DJ Magazine article, were "the entire Spanish 'A' list" and dominated the Spanish club scene throughout the 2000s. After Naymi's release of "Friday Night Forever", the song was covered by Belgian artist, Sonny O'Brien, in 2003.

Solo album

In 2002-3, Naymi recorded her debut album for Sony Music, produced by David Ferrero, Pedro Del Moral and Wally López, with vocals produced by Dr Kucho! and Antonio Escobar, which, due to changes within Sony Europe, was not released. The album featured songs written by Carrión including Pensado En Tí and Por Tí, as well as Alma Rota, written by Escobar, and another Ernerot & Lund song, "Superwoman", sung in English and in Spanish, which was later covered by O'Brien, in 2005.

Theater appearances

Carrión has starred in various musicals including :es:Pippi Långstrump|Pippi Calzaslargas in 2000 at the Teatro Real de Madrid, and We Will Rock You at the :es:Teatro Calderón |Teatro Calderón, in 2003 and 2004, where she was personally selected by Brian May to interpret Meat Loaf, a co-starring role in the musical, where she made a solo interpretation of the Brian May ballad "No One But You", receiving excellent artistic criticism from the Spanish press. She then appeared on the Spanish theatrical soundtrack double CD and special edition CD of the musical.

Television and movie work

Carrión has performed voice-overs and music for advertising commercials including Santander Central Hispano, Caser Seguros, :es:Canal Isabel II|Canal Isabel II, IKEA, Orange, Jazztel and Viva La Resistencia, a multi-channel campaign against cervical cancer commissioned by Asociación Nacional para el desarrollo de la Salud en la Mujer, all of which aired on Spanish networks. She has also appeared on television, performing theme tunes and cover songs as a soloist, as a member of a group, and as a chorus girl for other artists. She has been the principal singer with the orchestra for the television series A La Carta, presented by :es:Agustín Bravo|Agustín Bravo, broadcast on Antena 3 throughout 2004, and has also acted in film shoots for publicity films, promotional films and short films.

Guest appearances

In 2005, she appeared in Gente de Primera, a Spanish reality TV programme on Televisión Española alongside guests Marta Sanchez, David Civera and Pastora Soler. She has also recorded with French smooth jazz guitarist Marc Antoine on his 2005 album Modern Times, appearing on Camden Town, Samba Hood, and Cantar Al Amor. Carrión was a soprano soloist on the 2005 Mexican tour of Spanish singer, :es:Raphael |Raphael , and has recorded with :es:Pablo Moro|Pablo Moro. In 2005, she appeared as a guest performer on Vuelvo, the pop single of Spanish singer, Yurena, alongside :es:Eva Cortés|Eva Cortés and Marian Rebolleda. Also in 2005, she performed as a vocalist in the children's television series El Mundo Mágico De Brunelesky, directed by Javier Espiniella, appearing on the CD recording of the show.

Pop development

In 2006, Naymi's spectacular pop-dance rendition of ABBA's "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!", sung in English and also produced by David Ferrero, was released with group Mito, and like "Friday Night Forever", was well-received on the radio airwaves. Later in 2006, Carrión appeared as a main character in the series L'Alqueria Blanca, for production company, Zenit TV. She also starred as a solo singer in the 2006 musical spectacle On Broadway, directed by Victor Fernandez, at the 3D Scenica in Madrid, for production company Stage Entertaimet España.

Stage development

In 2006 and 2007, Carrión performed with La Gran Orquesta Santiago in Madrid singing Joan Manuel Serrat's "Hoy Puede Ser Un Gran Día", and in 2007, at the renowned :es:Circo Price|Circo Price theatre, in the musical spectacle Charivari directed by Rob Tannion. At this time, she also taught popular music composition at the Marand School of Music and Dance, Madrid.

Rock launch

In 2004, Carrión formed the Spanish pop-rock group Nieva, whose musical sound fuses electric guitars with electronica. After 3 years of development, in 2007, the duo performed concerts in Spanish cities with a full band, before writing, recording and producing their debut album. In 2011, the group began the final mixing and mastering of Sed De Mar .

Later activities

In 2009, Carrión performed at the :es:Teatro Reina Victoria|Reina Victoria theatre in Madrid as a singer in the cast of the musical spectacle Historia Del Pop Español: 50 años de antología del pop en España, directed by Héctor Oliveira, starring on the show tour. Carrión later performed at the :es:Festival de Jazz de Madrid|26th Jazz Festival of Madrid in November 2009. Also in 2009, French techno DJ, Ovejito Lindo, produced a bootleg mashup "Moi Lolita versus Gimme", as Alizée vs Mito & Naymi with British music magazine NME featuring the production in the NME awards 2009 section of their website.
In 2010, Italian label, Wondermark, released the pop-samba track "Rio de Janeiro" by group Sugar Reef, featuring Naymi, which was sung in Spanish and distributed digital stores in over 40 countries. The song was co-written, arranged, produced and mixed by veteran music producer Tom East. With vocals engineered by David Ferrero, the production was based on the 1999 hit "Rio" by Danish pop group Bluebeat, also produced by East, which had reached number 4 in the MTV Europe video hit list.

Recordings

Solo

Theatre