Mari Nobre

Mari Nobre

InterContinental Music Awards Judge

Gold Record & Billboard-Charted Artist, Ethnomusicologist, Featured Vocalist on Latin GRAMMY®-Winning Album

Mari Nobre is a passionate and versatile Jazz and Latin pop singer. Mari is a Billboard charted artist and the featured vocalist of a Latin GRAMMY Award winning album “Los Animales”. In 2021 Mari became a Gold Record artist certified by RIIA for her release “Vida” with the Italian label Hammer Music Italia. Mari is one of the few singers who can sing in five languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and French. 

A scholar with a BA in Jazz Performance from Herb Alpert’s School of Music. She is the recipient of the 2019 Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship Award at UC Riverside and the 2016 GOFP Fellowship Award at UCLA. Mari is currently the official singer of Joyas Prestadas,  the original band of Mexican-American diva Jenni Rivera. She also recorded with international jazz artists such as Flora Purim, Airto Moreira, Hubert Laws, Otmaro Ruiz, Herbie Hancock, Kenny Burrell among many others.

As a performing artist and songwriter, she is the recipient of a Latin Grammy certificate, the American Songwriter Award, the Jazz Ed Magazine Award as Best World Music Album of the Year, and Best World Music Artist of the Year, and the KXRL Radio Award among others. She also performed with the Dean Martin’s string orchestra in Italy where she received the Dean Martin’s Award for promoting the value of diversity through her music.

Mari is a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and the Screen Actors Guild.

International artist Mari Nobre is releasing her album “La Madrina,” a collection of original songs and covers of songs in the style of banda and mariachi. The album is the culmination of a four-year tour with her band Joyas Prestadas, the tribute to Jenni Rivera, during which she created a relationship of mutual love with Mexican-American audiences. 

With her band Joyas Prestadas Mari gave concerts to more than 10,000 people and sold out casinos and venues, and was interviewed many times by U.S. National Television (ABC) regarding programs celebrating the legacy of Jenni Rivera and Latin heritage. 

However she also realized that Jenni Rivera’s fans were eager to hear new feminist songs that could continue that legacy and that’s when she began her project produced by Jenny’s former producer, Pedro Íñiguez, and including many songs by Bruno Danzza, a famous composer associated with Jenni’s success. 

As a survivor of domestic violence, a single mother, and an immigrant, the connection to the songs on the album, as well as Jenni Rivera’s fans, is genuine and deep. This album and each performance are a mission of Mari to empower and inspire women. 

Through these songs, she is able to process her personal trauma and establish an emotional relationship with her audience. The title of “La Madrina” comes from the nickname given to her by her audience. A godmother is usually someone who is not related by blood to her godchildren, but loves and cares for them. In the same way that Mari, as an artist who was not born in Mexico, loves and represents Mexican music to an international audience. 

The song “Brincos Dieras” is the first single from the album “La Madrina” and went viral on Youtube only a few days after its release!”