Artist description Valerie DeLaCruz is an award-winning singer-songwriter with a powerful voice that shines and evokes emotion from each song. Hailing from upstate New York and performing around the country, her stage-savvy performances have delighted audiences from the Lilith Fair Showcase to the Bluebird Cafe, an intimate acoustic venue in Nashville. After having three independent CD releases and 2 #1 charting songs on MP3.com, DeLaCruz was signed in 1999 as the debut artist for Relentless Nashville Records. Her debut CD for Relentless, "They'll Never Know," was released in September 2000.

Music Style Country-flavored adult contemporary pop

Musical Influences Joni Mitchell, SarahVaughn, Linda Rondstadt, Trisha Yearwood

Similar Artists Trisha Yearwood, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Cher

Artist History Performing her own songs as early as fifteen when she opened for Johnny Rivers, Valerie DeLaCruz has sung all types of music from acoustic-folk to jazz and has concentrated on songwriting for the last several years.

Group Members Valerie DeLaCruz

Instruments Guitar

Albums Valerie DeLaCruz, My Girlfriends Quilt, Bootleg, They'll Never Know

Press Reviews "Valerie DeLaCruz has a signature style and in this selection of some fine cover tunes, she brings that style to its most pleasurable and listenable. Especially notable is her cover of Todd Rundgren's "Can We Still Be Friends." With a presence that comes through strong and clear, DeLaCruz gives Todd's song a very female friendly twist. Buy this CD as a gift for a best friend or a sister. The words and DeLaCruz's voice speak volumes."--Michelle Solomon, Arts Editor for the Detroit Free Press.

Location Niskayuna, NY - USA

Copyright notice. All material on MP3.com is protected by copyright law and by international treaties. You may download this material and make reasonable number of copies of this material only for your own personal use. You may not otherwise reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, or create derivative works of this material, unless authorized by the appropriate copyright owner(s).