Two-time Latin GRAMMY award-winning producer, trumpet player, and singer-songwriter, Ella Bric (also known as Linda Briceño) has been repeatedly hailed as one of the most promising artists of her generation. In the 2018 edition of the Latin GRAMMYs she raised the gilded gramophone of "Producer of the Year", becoming the first woman in the history of the awards to win in this category. Her vibrant voice and dynamic trumpet playing has allowed her to share stages and experiences with the likes of Wynton Marsalis, Arturo Sandoval, Paquito d'Rivera, Leonel Garcia, Armando Manzanero, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Gustavo Dudamel.

 

Ella has performed as a soloist with the Miami Symphony Orchestra, the Simon Bolivar Orchestra, the Lincoln Center Orchestra, and the LA Philharmonic. Wynton Marsalis expressed his admiration for Ella when he said: "There is a weight in her sound, weight, weight. This you either have it or you don't and it is very unusual for such a young person to have it the way she does". In 2012 she was selected by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Shaper thanks to her empowerment strategies for young artists, especially musicians, to assert their rights as creative individuals and as a collective in Latin America.

 

In 2019 she was invited to perform a tribute to Pharrell Williams at the Parsons 71st Benefit Gala, and in that same year she was latin superstar Alejandro Sanz’s special guest at The Madison Square Garden. 2020 was the year that saw Briceño qualify as a finalist in the Rolex Mentor-Protégé program. In 2021, she lent her voice to #YoTeCreoVzla (I Believe You Venezuela), a social justice movement that aims to give a voice to girls and women victims of abuse in Venezuela. Recently, Ella was invited to tell her immigration story in the 2022 edition of the American Songbook Series at Lincoln Center. Ella looks to continue experimenting while exploring her roots as a Latinx immigrant, female entrepreneur, and young musician, through her second album, which she is describing as “a love letter to the future of Latin American folk”.