At one of the Chicago Pinoy Music Scene fundraiser shows a few months back, we we’re all given a special treat. It was already late in the evening but many people stuck around to to hear one solo artist perform on stage with just her guitar. For those of us who were there, it was an unforgettable performance which gained new fans to her music. Imelda DeLaCruz has been composing and performing her own original music for over a decade now and continues to woo our hearts to her melodic stories on stage.

Each song is moment, captured through verse and melody… introducing you to characters that you can’t help but recognize. For many of us who listen to her music you can’t help but feel you know every person she is singing about… or you swear to god that you have lived through those same moments in one time or another…. from the innocent anxieties of high school, to the first moments you realized you believed in love (or perhaps wishing you never believed), to the days when we used to just sit and watch Saturday morning cartoons.

I had the chance to catch up with Imelda after her performance at the Beyond the Barrelman closing at Mercury cafe where we talked about her music, her stories and where she plays a song for all of us out on the side walk.

If you want to know more about Imelda, check out her website at www.imeldadelacruz.com and get her latest album, Noise, Noise, Noise..

Enjoy - RoXin

 

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