227:. Her love for music was noticed by her mother at a very young age. "One day, she just climbed up on the bench and started to play; that was the moment where it all began. She was three..." recalls her mother. At age 4, she began writing her first songs and her father starts to record her songs in their makeshift-home studio. "She was always very determined in her writing even at such young age." Juan Carlos recalls. At age 10, she starts to perform at private parties and theatres. She started recordings with a major record label,
434:. "This Fool's Life" was for several months the single in English with the highest rotation on the radio in many Latin American countries. Being one of the most listened to songs in English in countries like Mexico. The video for "This Fool's Life" was also an outstanding success. It broke several records in Music Video Networks like MTV, with a historic record breaking 19 weeks in the #1 position on the charts.
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On that day, she was recording a song named "Crash". The sessions never concluded. Eventually, Elán left Arista
Records. Soon after, Elán parted ways with Laister. Elán and Juan Carlos head back home and begin to salvage an album from the numerous sessions they have recorded in different parts of the
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On 8 May, Elán released her new album "What Can Be Done At This Point". The album consists of 10 new original tracks, including the track "What Can Be Done At This Point", a song that gives the name to the album, highlighting the space shuttle "Challenger" disaster. The track contains original audio
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Australia, Elan's "This Fool's Life" video debuted in the number one position in video streaming with over 150,000,000 streams for its first week in Australias' "Undercover", the most important music site in the world. "This Fool's Life" had almost twice the number of views in its debut week than
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The first single from the new album is titled "Don't Want You In". The video for "Don't Want You In" jumped straight to the Top 10 charts in video networks like "Telehit". It was directed by
Gulliver Paraelescándalo who also directed the videos for "This Fool's Life" and "Whatever It Takes". On 10
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album. The video for the "Be Free" single was directed by renowned director, animator and painter Chris Roth and was in high rotation in Latin
America's largest Music Video Networks. The single itself did very well in Latin American radio stations, being at the top of the radio charts for seventeen
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Elán gave interviews on many
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On 10 March 2008 Elan released their fourth album titled "Shine". On 16 April the band launched their "Elan Shine Tour 2008" which kicked off in Mexico. The "Elan Shine Tour 2008" is one of the most successful and longest running tours ever featured in Mexico by an independent band. The tour in
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hears the song Street Child and eventually contributes his guitar skills to the final version on the album. Three years after arriving to the U.S.A. Elán's album is finally finished and mastered at
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to manage Elán. Her second A&R representative at Arista
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world. They re-track most of the album and are eventually joined by Elán's long time engineer Jeff Poe. They mix the album over the next nine months. Originally slated to be titled
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Elán reveals an assortment of music that has been influenced by many artists like John Lennon, and a few other notable influencers. Elán had a notable success with albums like
206:. she has released six notable albums - five in English and one in Spanish. In 2017, she switched to Shy Porter as professional name, and began releasing music as such.
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