Cecilia Zabala is a guitarist, composer, singer and singer-songwriter. She combines the interpretation and creation of music, with guitar and voice, throughout her entire career, mixing sensitivity, expression, technique and intuition. In her music, styles as different as Argentine folklore, contemporary language, jazz, tango, and Brazilian music intersect.
Zabala was born in Buenos Aires, where she has lived and worked ever since. She began playing guitar around the age of 6, and began singing in a children's chorus at age 8. At age 16, she began studies at the Conservatory Alberto Ginastera in Morón, a suburb of Buenos Aires. She earned the title of Guitar Professor at age 19, and by age 22 she earned the degree of Superior Guitar Professor, all at Alberto Ginastera, where she continues to teach a full course load today. Zabala also joined the music faculty of the Leopoldo Marechal Art School in Buenos Aires in 1999, and teaches full time presently at both conservatories. Since 2006, Zabala has toured abroad on a nearly annual basis, throughout Europe, North America and Latin America.
She was the winner of the First National Prize for the Arts 2018 awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Argentina in the "Jazz and Melodic" category. She has released eleven independent albums, one single and one EP published in Argentina Germany and the United States.