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Yamila brings the rhythm of her native Cuba. She learned a wide variety of artistic talents from Cuba, Europe, and the United States. At a very early age she was enrolled in Cuba’s National Ballet School where she studied Classical Ballet for five years and ultimately began performing as a soloist. Following that, Yamila continued her studies at Cuban’s National School of Performing Arts where she learned music, dance, and acting graduating with honors.
Together with her family she began a series of performing tours throughout the country. Yamila’s passion for salsa music and Cuban culture catapulted her to fame with a growing number of Cuban fans that adored her style. Soon she was recognized as a TV icon appearing on her hit shows “Para sentir amor” and “Contacto”. The shows’ successes launched her international career and she soon started touring several European countries including: France, Germany, Portugal, and Spain. While in Spain, Yamila participated in numerous televised programs as a singer, actress, and TV host. She has performed in many of Spain’s famous concert halls in cities such as Madrid, Barcelona, and Valencia. Her European tour was a success and she later traveled to several parts of South America and the Caribbean.
In 2000 Yamila moved to Miami and there, she started to perform in the famous national TV show “Sábado Gigante”, in Univision. In the same network she worked at “Caliente” and “Los Metiches” shows and she co-host the show Luna Verde, in America TV. Yamila’s experiences and talents eventually brought her to Los Angeles, working on NBC in “Kinpin” and “Southland’ series in TNT, “Criminal Minds; Beyond Borders” in CBS and “Shameless” series in Showtime and in latin shows like “Cante y Gane”, Azteca America and “De todo un poco” in Channel 22, Telemundo. She was invited to participate in the last season of the Mexican show “Super Sábado”, Azteca TV in Mexico city.
Yamila has performed at The Oscar Governor Ball where she became the first Cuban artist to perform in this important event, also she has participated at Latin Sound Series in LACMA, The Mayan, Rumba Room, The Century Club, Mama Juanas and many other famous clubs in the Los Angeles area as well as several cultural events such as the Cuban Festival, Latin American Festival, Day of Mexico Independence, among others.
From his fifth album “No alcanzan palabras para ti”, the song “Guajira” was chosen to be part of “Hidden Moon” movie’s soundtrack sharing credits with Oscar winner Luis Bacalov Yamila’s brother and music director Yalil Guerra has been nominated five times and he won a Grammy award as best contemporary classical composer. Recently, she co-produced with her brother Yalil the original soundtrack of the PBS documentary “Weekend in Havana”.
Currently, Yamila is promoting her seventh album “Havana Nights”, produced and mixed by Latin Grammy winners Yalil Guerra, Oscar Autie and Cristian Robles.
Also, she is working on many other projects like The Yamila Guerra Show, a daily podcast in Youtube live and Facebook live, her new albums that will debut soon and a new show in Las Vegas where she has signed a contract for five years.