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Libby Harding ("La Bruja")
musical director, jarana, vocals
Libby grew up in Southern California in a home surrounded
by Latin American music and culture. Her father, Tim, is a
renowned professor of Latin American history and music and
a multi-instrumentalist, and her mother, Pan, taught Mexican
dance; both are fluent in Spanish. She quickly developed a
love and an uncanny facility for this music, especially the
lively son jarocho of Veracruz, Mexico. The former Oakwood
School student later studied recording engineering at the
Institute for Audio Research in New York City, graduating
in 1980. Libby joined her sister Cindy's group Sabiá
in 1982; Sabiá toured the U.S., Canada and Central
America extensively through the '80s, and released three acclaimed
albums. Libby was the songwriter and co-lead singer of Sabiá,
composer of numerous songs that have been performed and recorded
by many other artists. In 1985 she received a Special Award
of Recognition from the University of Veracruz in Jalapa,
Mexico, for her work in the promotion of jarocho music in
the U.S. Libby studied music at L.A. Valley College, receiving
a NARAS Musical Achievement Award in 1986.
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