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Francisca Valenzuela

Francisca Valenzuela (born March 17, 1987 in San Francisco, California) is an American born Chilean singer, songwriter, poet, instrumentalist, andcomposer of Pop and Rock songs.
She was born and raised in San Francisco, California, where she resided until the age of 12, before moving to Chile. She is considered to be one of the singing revelations of Chilean music from 2006.On June 30, 2007 she released her first solo studio album Muérdete La Lengua ("Bite your tongue") in Chile, where it was certified Gold. Her second studio album buen soldado ("Good Soldier") wasreleased on March 2011 in United States, México and Chile simultaneously.

Early life :
Francisca Valenzuela's career is divided between the United States and Chile. She lived her first twelve yearsin San Francisco, California, United States. Valenzuela is the fourth oldest and only daughter of five children, born to two Chilean born scientists, Pablo DT Valenzuela and Bernardita Méndez. Shedemonstrated interest in music at a very early age. She began taking music lessons at the age of 7. By the age of ten she was playin gacoustic guitar, was studying classical piano and was taking her firststeps in writing songs. She lived and attended school in San Francisco and Berkeley, California. During summer vacations, she and her brothers would travel to Santiago, where they would visitrelatives.
Eventually, the family would make the permanent move to Santiago, when Francisca was 12. In 2000, Francisca published her first book,"Defenseless Waters" a collection of her poems. She releasedher second book,"Abejorros/Madurar", which was distributed in Spain and Latin America. As part a promotional tour for "Defenseless Waters", she brought her guitar and keyboard to venues in northernCalifornia, where she gave poetry readings and performed songs of her own composition. Valenzuela is fluent in English and Spanish, and often composes songs in both languages. Although she and...