Ignacio Uriarte (singer-songwriter)

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Ignacio Uriarte (2017)

Ignacio Uriarte (born October 1, 1988, in Manhattan, New York) [1] is a New York-based singer-songwriter. Since 2015 he has been singing under the name Lions Head. [2] [3]

Career

Uriarte's former group Dellacane made it into the final round of the Emergenza Music Festival at Webster Hall in New York City in 2007. [4]

Uriarte came to Germany from the US in 2014 and took part in songwriting seminars in Hamburg and Munich and releases the single "Begging" in spring 2015. The song earned Lions Head listings in various airplay charts and was featured on the Tanz Dich Glücklich sampler in the summer of 2015. In early 2016, Lions Head opened for Joris and Milky Chance and performed at various music festivals in the summer of the same year. In November 2016, his debut album LNZHD was released by Sony Music.

Ignacio “Iggy” Uriarte was a mentor on Dein Song in 2017. From fall 2018, he was part of the jury on the music casting show X Factor. [5]

Since August 2021, Uriarte has been known as “Iggy” and released his second album, This Is Iggy, in February 2022.


Discography

References

  1. ↑ Alles über Iggy, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, retrieved on July 21, 2018
  2. ↑ Lions Head kommt zur Hanse Sail, Ostsee-Zeitung, German, retrieved on July 21, 2018
  3. ↑ Lions Head Archived July 21, 2018, at the Wayback Machine , Sony Music, retrieved on July 21, 2018
  4. ↑ Stern, Irena Choi (July 15, 2007). "A Local Band Flirts With the Big Time". The New York Times. Retrieved October 28, 2010.
  5. ↑ "Iggy Uriarte - X Factor".
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