CONCERTPIANIST – SINGER- COMPOSER
Tania Naranjo is one of Scandinavia's most versatile concert pianists, singer and composer. She was born and raised in Santiago de Chile. From an early age, she developed a strong passion for classical piano and Chilean folk music.
“The whole experience is deeply moving, and Naranjo’s expressive singing and compositions are impressive” LIRA MUSIKMAGASIN
“… låt mig då strö en fond av Frida Kahlos blodröda rosor över TANIA NARANJO och Ojosauro. Jag får gåshud av hennes djärva tonutveckling av hennes musik” SVERIGES RADIO
“Tania Naranjo approaches Frida Kahlo’s universe without attempting to translate it into images or imitate its minimalism and the cinematic.”iconography.” “The sonic landscape moves fluidly between minimalism and the cinematic.” EMERGENZA – MEXICO
Photo: Lanna Olsson
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TANIA NARANJO IS THE “COMPOSER OF THE YEAR” – THE JURY’S CITATION
“For her personal and distinctive musical language, in which she unites tradition and contemporary expression with great artistic integrity. In her settings of Frida Kahlo’s diary entries and texts, she creates a powerful and singular musical space where words and music interact in a profound and moving expression.” (STIM & RFoD)
Today she resides in Sweden, holding a successful career as a concert pianist, singer, and composer. Tania has been touring all over Scandinavia, Europe, South America, Middle East and performed in international festivals as a solo concertist, accompanied by symphonic orchestras, and also with her own constellations.
New Release: Ojosauro by Tania Naranjo, a powerful new album bringing the texts of Frida Kahlo to life through music.The Ojosauro Album – A Musical Tribute to Frida Kahlo
“I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.” – Frida Kahlo
With her new album Ojosauro, released on October 4, 2025, Tania Naranjo offers a musical tribute to Frida Kahlo, using texts by Kahlo as lyrics to her soulful performance. Giving sound to Kahlo’s words, she blends her expressive piano and vocals with electronic textures and production by Jens Andersson (@filtmusic), alongside the pulsating rhythms of darbuka master Bader Debs (@bader_debs). Ojosauro was released on Valle Music, with a premiere concert at Malmö Live Konserthus presented by Mix Musik. The lead track with the same name was released on September 5, 2025.
Transforming inner life into art lies at the core of Ojosauro. In Kahlo’s diaries and private writings,
Ojosauro is a phantom or demon symbolizing her innermost tensions and existential struggles.
Tania Naranjo’s musical interpretation of Frida Kahlo’s words is a powerful testimony to resilience
against all odds that speaks to all of us. “Through Ojosauro, I hope you can feel her spirit as deeply
as I do,” says Naranjo.
Tania Naranjo is a Chilean-born, Sweden-based concert pianist, singer, and composer whose work fuses classical sophistication with the soul of Latin America. Her emotionally rich music blends jazz, tango, bossa nova, and contemporary influences into a unique and genre-defying voice.
Her new solo album Ojosauro (Nominated to Manifestgalan 2026) is a deeply personal tribute to the inner world of Frida Kahlo, drawing from the artist’s diaries and private writings. Building on the poetic foundation of her acclaimed 2023 release Rosor, which set music to the words of iconic women poets from Scandinavia and Latin America, Ojosauro dives into cinematic, minimalist, and emotionally immersive terrain.
Naranjo’s compositions have been featured in film (The Ape Star), opera (Nalle Havsöga), and symphonic works (Duel of Hearts). She has performed internationally with ensembles, orchestras, and crossover acts such as Naranjo-Weurlander and the TRUE MUSIC PROJECT. Her newest ensemble, Orientino Duo with Syrian-Swedish darbuka player Bader Debs, blends Middle Eastern and Latin American traditions and continues to tour in 2025 after a celebrated debut at Malmö Folk Festival.
Winner of numerous cultural awards, Tania Naranjo creates music that is fearless, poetic, and deeply human – each performance a powerful, cross-cultural journey of rhythm, resistance, and emotional truth.
Her music
Current concert productions:
Tania Naranjo “OJOSAURO” (quintett) electronic by Jens Andersson
Tania Naranjo “ROSOR & KAHLO” solo/trio
Orientino – Tania Naranjo & darbuka master Bader Debs (duo/Latin-Oriental)
Tania Naranjo, pi & song with Symphony Orchestra (music by Naranjo)
True Music Project – Tania Naranjo & Reuben Sallmander with band
Tania Naranjo & Reuben Sallmander (duo)
Collaborations:
NATIONAL
- Malmö Symphony Orchesta
- Jönköpings Sinfonietta
- Malmö Opera
- Stockholm Symphony Wind Orchestra
- Gothemburg City Theater
- Västernorrlands Symphony Orchestra
- Gislaved Symphony Orchestra
- LEE Film
- Swedish National Radio
- Filmcentrum Syd
- Amanda String Quartet/SWE
- Bertmark Förlag
- Teater Kalejdoskop
- Teater Sagohuset
- Musik i Syd
- Mix Musik
- Musikaliska Stockholm
- Stallet
INTERNATIONAL
- Orquesta Filarmónica Regional de Atacama (Chile)
- Budapest MAV Symphony Orchestra
- Nordic Opera
- Ciourlionis String Quartet//Vilnius Filharmonija/LTU
- Danza Urbana Hamburg /GER
- Red Amber Events (Egypt)
OTHERS
- TRUE MUSIC PROJECT with Reuben Sallmander
- Orientino with darbouka master Bader Debs (SE/CL/SIRIA)
- Kristin Amparo
- Duo Naranjo-Weurlander
- Rubem Farias (BR/SE)
- Hilda Hellwig (Director)
- Ingar Bergby (conductor) NOR
- Emil Eliasson (conductor)
- Gal Támás (conductor)-(HG)
- The Gothenburg Combo (gitarr duo)
- Micke Herrström (Producer)
- Jens Andersson (Producer & Electronics)
- Orange Tech & Latin Ensemble
- Mats Hålling
- Tobias Broström/Malleus Incus
- Patricio Wang/Quilapayún-Ch
- Marcelo Nisinman/Arg
- Svante Henryson
- Arja Saijonmaa
- Jonas Dominique (Conductor)
- Manuel García (CH)
- Lotta Lagerström-Dyrssen (coreograph and stage director)
- Valeria Montti Colque (artist)
- Paolo Russo (DK/IT)
Swedish National Radio SRP2, SRP1 Kultur, TV4, SVT, YLE Radio Vega Finland, Polish National Radio , TV Skierniewice (Poland) ARTV Chile, TV SENADO, “La Vitrola” Canal 13, Radio U.de Chile, Radio Cámara has done documentaries about her music & projects
NEW ALBUM OUT NOW!
Music by Tania Naranjo, lyrics by Frida Kahlo
Label: Valle Music /Produced by: Tania Naranjo & Jens Andersson
Recorded at 9 Volt Studio, Malmö by Jens Andersson
Mastering: Hans Olsson – Svenska Grammofonstudion
Tania Naranjo, vocals, piano, composition/ Jens Andersson, Keyboards, electronics
Bader Debs, darbuka & percussion/ Liliana Zavala, percussion
Photo: Lanna Olsson /Make Up & Hair: Jenny Guerrero
Cover Art: Abel Alazo Rangel
With gratitude to Banco de México Fiduciario en el Fideicomiso relativo a los Museos Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo
NEW SINGEL OUT NOW!
Music by Tania Naranjo /Poetry by Frida Kahlo/Producers: Tania Naranjo & Jens Andersson/Label: Valle Music 2025
NEW SINGEL OUT NOW!
Music by Tania Naranjo /Poetry by Frida Kahlo/Producers: Tania Naranjo & Jens Andersson/Label: Valle Music 2025
The Gothenburg Combo/ Novel A Musical Library Vol.3 / “Amor en los tiempos del cólera” Music: Tania Naranjo 2025
Rubem Farias feat. Tania Naranjo 2025
TWO ALBUMS RELEASED 2023
All music by Tania Naranjo/Poetry by Karin Boye, Gabriela Mistral, Edith Södergran & Frida Kahlo/Producer: Tania Naranjo/Co-producer Micke Herrström/Supported by Swedish Arts Council Valle Music/MWmusica 2023
All music by Tania Naranjo & Reuben Sallmander /Lyrics by Sallmander/ Producers: Naranjo & Sallmander/Co-producer Micke Herrström/ Label: Valle Music/MWmusica 2023
Tania Naranjo is supported by the Swedish Arts Council, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, the Swedish Performing Arts Agency, Statens Musikverk, Crafoord Foundation & Sten K Johnsons Foundation. “STIM award”, “Malmö Culture award”, “Condor Prize”,“IRIS award” To progressive women who demonstrates an extraordinary ability and motivation”
Performances, international tours & festivals in Scandinavia, Balticum, France, Italy, Faroe Islands, Mexico, Canada, Hungary, Poland, Germany, Chile, Egypt and more….
