A six time winner of the Festival de la Cancion Latinoamericana and a former opera singer, is your source for Mexican and Latin American music. Juanita's specialty is boleros and rancheras and her immense range, deep emotional expression, composition talents have put her in demand with mariachis from Tijuana to Cancun, Mexico and throughout California, as well as in the solo field both as a recitalist (Madrid, Jaca, Spain: Lima, Peru:, Mexico City, Mexico) and with the Stockton and Sacramento Symphonies plus San Diego Orchestra. She also tours as an ethnomusicologist, author, and vocal music educator in concert, workshops and conventions with companies such as Silver, Burdett Ginn (Pearson) and MacMillan/McGraw-Hill Publishers and trains performers privately.

• Featured soloist in PBS Prize Winning Movie "A Fight in the Fields" about Cesar Chavez
• World Music Recording Artist with 6 Cd's plus two songbooks: "Mujeres" (Women) Boleros and Mariachi CD's "Canta Conmigo" (Sing with me) Bilingual Music for Children & Families
• Featured soloist anthem singer and performer at 3-Com and PacBell Park for SF Giants
• Performer with names such as Chamin Correa, Joan Baez, Pete Escovedo, Ema Elena Valdelamar plus numerous mariachis including Los Camperos de Nati Cano & Mariachi Nevin.
• Voice-Over artist for Bank of America, Reader Rabbit Series, many dolls, Mailboxes, Sensory, and CCC.

Critics Say:

"Juanita...a classically trained soprano.  It's her primary and formidable instrument...sound starts from the region of her kneecaps...she also shines on piano...a sophisticated range of music."
     - Calvin Ahlgren, San Francisco Chronicle Datebook

Juanita...an elfin woman with an outsized voice that glides over a huge tonal and stylistic range...and a playful seductive style."    - Leo Stutzin, Modesto Bee

"A truly enchanting musical recital..."     - Guidepost Magazine, Madrid, Spain

"Highly praised concerts filled the auditorium..."     - Lima Times, Lima, Peru.

"I finally opened your Mujeres y Mariachi CD and since putting it on I can't stop playing it over and over!"     - Roberto Hernandez, Promotor

"These songs are wonderful! I love the lush arrangements-your vocal performance is very strong with awesome technique and conveys great emotion with nice messages about love and our world. This is some of the coolest mariachi I've ever heard fronted by a woman."     - TAXI  reviewer