Florencia "Flor" Caserta (born April 13, 1984) is an Argentine

Argentina

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 female pop

Pop music

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 and rock

Rock music

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 singer.

Biography

Caserta was born in El Palomar

El Palomar, Buenos Aires

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, Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires Province

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. She met Pablo Romero, singer of the band Árbol

Arbol

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, that heard her singing and he invited her to make a disc of covers from different bands from El Oeste (the western zone of Greater Buenos Aires

Greater Buenos Aires

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). It is there that she recorded her first song, “Mañana en el Abasto”, by Sumo

Sumo (band)

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.

After that, they proposed that she record some demos of pop music. The process lasted two years, until they obtained five songs which they presented to producer Gustavo Santaolalla

Gustavo Santaolalla

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.

Discography

Flor's first album is the self-titled Flor (2006). Tracks include:

• "La Respuesta" (The Answer)
• "No, nada" (No, nothing)
• "Aire" (Air)
• "Igual" (Same One)
• "Sal" (Get Out)
• "Girar" (To Turn)
• "Así" (Like This)
• "¿Qué será?" (What Will Be?)
• "Jazmín"

"Jazmín" was the album's first single. "La Respuesta" was its second single.

Charts

Song	Country	Peak Position	Link
"Jazmín"	Uruguay Uruguay Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...  Top 20	#19

Production

Pablo Romero, Gustavo Santaolalla, Adrián Sosa. Associated Producer: Aníbal Kerpel.

The album was recorded in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, California

California

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 by Aníbal Kerpel. Mixed in "La Casa" studies in Los Angeles.

External links

• Official website
• Biography of Flor
• Flor, the "Argentine rock princess"
• Article about Flor in Clarín Journal
• Flor in Página 12
• Flor, nominated at two Gardel Awards
• Flor, nominated at the MTV Video Music Awards
  MTV Video Music Awards
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  Latin America as Best New Act (South)