Ely Guerra

Ely Guerra is a Mexican singer-songwriter and music producer with over 30 years in the industry. She won a Latin Grammy for Best Alternative Album in 2010 and has been an entrepreneur for more than two decades with Homey Company, a business of her own founding.  

Ely has collaborated with musicians, singers, actresses, actors, and writers. Notable examples include her participation in “Travieso Carmesí,” a work by Maestro Alondra de la Parra, alongside Natalia Lafourcade, Denisse Gutiérrez, and Maestro Armando Manzanero. With Sting in the “Learning for Life” initiative concert. Additionally, with Pilar del Río, Lydia Cacho, Ofelia Medina, Lourdes Ambríz, and Irene Azuela in the tribute “Voces de mujer en la obra de Saramago,” directed by Antonio Castro at the Palacio de Bellas Artes.  

Invited by the “Mexico Now Festival”, she had the honor of performing at Carnegie Hall and the Walt Disney Concert Hall with Los Macorinos, Eugenia León, and Tania Libertad during the Tribute to Chavela Vargas. In 2015, the University of California (UCLA) invited her as a Regents' Lecturer for the “Mexican Cultures through Literature, Films and Music” program.  

Furthermore, she has been invited to collaborate with renowned colleagues on both, live concerts and phonographic productions. For instance, she has collaborated with Maestro composer Arturo Márquez, Maestro conductor Enrique Patrón de Rueda, Juan Gabriel, Los Tigres del Norte, Pepe Aguilar, Control Machete, La Ley, Café Tacuba, Los Tres, Natalia Lafourcade, Gustavo Cerati, Panteón Rococó, Ximena Sariñana, Silvana Estrada, Carla Morrison, Leiva, Thirty Seconds to Mars (Jared Leto), Celso Piña, César Costa, Johnny Indovina (Human Drama), Jorge Viladoms, and Hello Seahorse!, to name just a few.  

She has also contributed to the soundtracks of films and series such as Amores perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu), Sundown (Michel Franco), Monarca (Salma Hayek), De la calle (Gerardo Tort), Sueño (Renée Chabria), El viaje de Teo (Walter Doehner), and Vacas vaqueras (Will Finn & John Sanford).  

In 2019, Ely released Zion, an album written, recorded, and produced by her. Zion is a unique musical project, created exclusively with her voice; a single voice that transforms into a choir enhanced by the vibrant visual work of Mexican artist Gustavo García-Villa. 

To commemorate her 30 years in music, she embarked on the “Tour Ely Guerra a Voz y Guitarra”, an intimate acoustic journey through her most iconic songs. This celebratory show has graced stages across Mexico and the United States, appearing at notable venues and events such as the “Sor Juana Fest” (at the National Museum of Mexican Art), and the iconic Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera Casa Azul. Her performance at the Casa Azul was part of the 2024 Day of the Dead (Día de Muertos) festivities, honoring the 70th anniversary of the Mexican painter's passing.  

Ely continues now also in a symphonic format. This new venture saw her distinguished encounter with the baton of Maestro Gustavo Dudamel, accompanied by the Los Angeles Philharmonic (LA Phil) at the Walt Disney Hall Center during the “Canto en Resistencia, Power to the People!” concert. She shared the stage at this event with fellow artists Anita Tijoux, Goyo, Lila Downs, and Catalina García.  

In the same symphonic realm, she participated in the “Comparte Vida y Buena Música” concert with the Eduardo Mata University Youth Orchestra (OJUEM), under the direction of celebrated conductor Gustavo Rivero Weber, at the Sala Nezahualcóyotl of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, collaborating with Maestro tenor Fernando de la Mora and Denise Gutiérrez. She also performed at the Christmas Concert held at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City, directed by the renowned Maestro conductor and composer Tommer Adaddi, leading the extraordinary Minería Symphony Orchestra.  

Ely Guerra: over 30 years making music, 20 of them independently.