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1Sandra Bouza
Toronto native Sandra Bouza (pronounced Bōh-zah) has a lot to offer through her music and life experience. Having spent a large part of her life in Spain, as well as travelling to far corners of the earth, Sandra’s worldly vision is evident in her songwriting. Sandra lets her stories breathe in songs that are deeply personal.
Growing up, Bouza would spend five months every other year in Northern Spain, where her father was from and her mother would homeschool her children up in the mountains. As for music, she says, “Mom was the foundation of my musical education. She was always singing and playing guitar and encouraging us to sing. She had a great record collection and constantly had the radio on, drilling us about who was playing and took us to concerts and musicals.”
After performing professionally in Canada for almost a decade, Bouza departed for Morocco to perform a series of shows on contract. What was supposed to be a six-week journey turned into a three-year stint, performing and fine-tuning her craft while living in Morocco.
Bouza has been a prolific songwriter since the beginning of her career. “I’m proud of my songs. They speak to my story,” she says. Keen to honour her own songs, Bouza returned to Toronto, and started building her career. Within a year of her return, she won the Toronto Blues Talent Search and came in second in the Toronto Soul Slam. Newly committed to her own music, she then connected with Toronto-based producer, Hill Kourkoutis, who produced her 2018 EP ‘Three Years’ and then her first LP ‘Falling Away From Me’ released in 2020.