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Angela VÃa (born December 29, 1981 as Angela Jolene Trullinger Villarreal) is an United States|American singer/songwriter from Texas. Initially marketed as a Pop music|pop artist, Angela’s catalog contains music of a variety of genres in both English language|English and Spanish language|Spanish. Her next album, which will feature both English and Spanish recordings is due out in 2008.
Biography
Childhood and beginnings
VÃa was born in Raymondville, Texas, to Tom Trullinger, of European-American and Native Americans in the United States|Native American ancestry, and Annie Villarreal, of Mexican and Spanish people|Spanish ancestry. During her early childhood, she grew close to her Mexican/American heritage, and often listened to the local Tejano music. Every day, VÃa would lock herself in her room or take her boom box to the porch and practice singing for hours. She wrote her first song at the age of three.
At the age of nine, VÃa and her family moved to Gresham, Oregon, a suburb of the most populous city in the state, Portland, Oregon. It was here that she began singing in her school and church choirs, as well as discovering some of her favorite artists, BeBe & CeCe Winans and Kirk Franklin. This was when she began to gain a deeper connection to R&B and soul music. In 1996, Angela’s father took her to a studio to record some of her favorite songs at th... read all
