| Myraida Desireé Carmona (born August 27, 1984), publicly known by the stage name Calma Carmona, is a Puerto Rican singer-songwriter whose music is primarily Soul & Latin Soul with influences that cross Sade Adu, Santana, PJ Harvey, La Lupe and Tina Turner. She sings in both her native Spanish and English.In August 2013, Carmona was voted MTV Iggy Artist of the week and in the same year, she opened for Beyoncé's The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour in Puerto Rico. She is known for her "wide-ranging influences", in the style of singers such as Jill Scott and Erykah Badu. She released her debut EP, There's No Other Girl, in September 2013 on mun2.
In 2015, Carmona was hired by Gravity Thinking to sing the Franz Ferdinand track Love Illumination, for the Glenfiddich 21 year old whiskey campaign, arranged and conducted for the Scottish Opera Orchestra by Derek Williams. The YouTube version amassed over 1.7 million hits in its premiere run, and has now been relisted for release in Taiwan. |
