Tag: Colombia

Nathalie Ackermann

Nathalie Ackermann

Natalie Ackermann comes from the Rhineland. Her father, Rudolf Ackermann, is German, and her mother is from Barranquilla, Colombia.[1][2] Born in Düsseldorf, she grew up bilingually in the Meerbusch district of Büderich, with German and Spanish as her native languages. As a teenager, she moved to Spain with her brother; later, they both lived with their mother in Barranquilla on the Colombian Caribbean coast.[1] There, she won the title of "Señorita Atlántico" in a regional beauty pageant Read more [...]
Juan-José Lopera

Juan-José Lopera

https://youtu.be/8CprIQExvkU?si=I5muhbzVkj7ijj-B&t=26 Juan José Lopera was born in Colombia and qualified as a medical doctor before he began studying singing. For three years he combined this with his work as a doctor before coming to Europe in 1993. He continued his studies at the Opera School of the Bayerische Opera in Munich for two years. He won the international Singing Competition orgarised by the Germany Radio ARD in 1994. In 1995 he became a member of the Innsbruck Opera where Read more [...]