Parade Magazine once asked, “Is there anything Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer cannot do?”
For Cuban-American artist Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, music has always been the through line. A singer-songwriter, composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, Yvette has built a career that moves from recording studios and concert stages to Broadway and film. She brings a warm, soulful voice to a musical vocabulary shaped by her Cuban roots, jazz, pop, theatre and a lifetime of storytelling.
Her career has taken her from Carnegie Hall to Broadway, Madison Square Garden to the Kremlin. She has performed and collaborated with artists including Jason Mraz, H.E.R., Ne-Yo, Gaby Moreno, Flor de Toloache, Gloria Estefan, Wyclef Jean, Engelbert Humperdinck and Justin Bieber. One of her earliest professional engagements took her around the world as a vocalist and violinist with Engelbert Humperdinck, including a featured duet with the legendary artist.
As a recording artist, Yvette reaches more than one million monthly listeners on Spotify. Her releases include I Wish You Would and Havana, music the Miami Herald described as “at once ambitious and grounded,” praising her “powerful yet fully in control voice.” Her music moves fluidly between Latin rhythms, soul, jazz and pop, grounded by expressive vocals, live musicianship and emotionally driven storytelling.
A Grand Prize Winner of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, Yvette was signed to BMG Publishing (Topline Songs) by multiplatinum songwriter and producer Billy Mann. Her work as a songwriter and composer spans records, film and television, with original music appearing in Dan Fogelman’s Life Itself, Replica, Miss Arizona, NCIS: Los Angeles, Nickelodeon’s Make It Pop and ESPN. She composed, orchestrated and performed the theme music for the feature film La Patasola, and her songs have been recorded and released by artists internationally, including releases through Universal France and Sony Japan.
Yvette’s musicianship has also been central to her acclaimed theatrical career. She originated the principal role of Fate in the original Broadway company of Hadestown and appears as a vocalist and violinist on its Grammy Award-winning Original Broadway Cast Recording. She later created, co-produced, wrote and arranged for If the Fates Allow: A Hadestown Holiday Album, featuring members of the original Broadway company. She went on to star as Satine in the First National Tour of Moulin Rouge! The Musical and previously starred as Vanessa in the First National Tour of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights.
As the lead singer, violinist and guitarist of Nickelodeon’s The Fresh Beat Band, Yvette performed for nearly one million fans, sold out Madison Square Garden four times, performed in the 85th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, graced the cover of Pollstar Magazine, rang the NYSE Morning Bell and contributed to two albums that reached #1 on iTunes. The Emmy Award-winning series also earned her two Imagen Award nominations for Best Actress.
Her work on screen includes starring roles in the feature films Playing for Mozart and Murder Motel, opposite Academy Award nominee Mickey Rourke. She appeared as Ella on 9-1-1 opposite Angela Bassett, played the iconic role of Cha Cha DiGregorio in FOX’s Grease: Live, guest starred on Madam Secretary and Criminal Minds, and has voiced characters for Disney and Nickelodeon.
Now, Yvette is writing and developing a new body of music that puts her Cuban roots at the center. After a career spent across records, stages and screens, she is returning to the rhythms, songs and traditions that first shaped her and reimagining them through the artist and musician she has become.
