Singer & Songwriter

All in One Singing & Coaching. Artistically Engineered for You.

Multitalented International & Award-Winning Recording Artist, Engineer and Coach

I specialize in creating music shows worldwide to inspire, entertain and motivate audiences to turn their visions into reality and become their best self to make their dreams come true. What makes us unique is that we deliver high-quality international music and speaking along with visual and performing arts to stimulate all senses. We treat our audiences with the utmost respect and develop long-lasting followers and friends. For videos subscribe to our YouTube channel

We have been described as having a soothing sound which only comes from years of musical practice, study, and deep spiritual preparation and inspiration. WE believe that we can transform your body and mind when you listen to the singing with the band.

Awards

Best of Paris 2019 Nomination for Best Singer 

Akademia Music Awards

Winner of the August 2015 Akademia Music Awards for Best Jazz / Singer-Songwriter Song for ‘Everything Must Change’Thank you to my guitarist Mike De Luca, Percussion player & recording engineer Sebastien Lete and Carlos Julio Vilchez for the master/mix at CJ Studios for helping make this possible. Click here to watch the video clip of the Award winning song

Music and Videos:

Discography

International Stages:

Venezuela, USA, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Bahamas, Canada, Lebanon, England, South Africa, Belgium, Spain, France, Brazil, Switzerland, Italy, Germany.

Songversation in Paris with Dave Herridge a Jazz Piano/Vocal Legend

Booking

    • Songversation: concert/coaching for life motivation & inspiration to live to the fullest
    • Jazz/bossa Trio music show: 2-3 sets, voice, guitar/piano & percussion
    • Jazz / bossa Duo music show: 2-3 sets, voice & guitar/piano
    • Voice over:  Contact for custom quote
    • Vocal coaching contact for quote
    • Music Publishing and Distribution How to publish your music, protect your rights and promote your music online.
    • Podcast publishing and creation/setup How to create, setup publish and promote a podcast
    • Gospel vocal arrangements:  for studio recordings or live performances
    • Vocal studio recordings: for original music. contact for custom quote
    • Lyrics & songwriting : contact for custom quote
    • Gospel Concert: (12-30+ voices) Gospel soloist, 2 musicians including the choir director
      Booking

My Songversation 

Press/Media:

 
Nominated by the Akademia executive team for The Akademia 2022 Outstanding Legacy Award, a special honor being bestowed upon those artists whose musical legacy is deemed timeless and important to future generations. Congratulations on having their name permanently etched in silver on the Akademia Hall of Titans stage in Diamond City. 
 
Awarded the Akademia 2021 Rising Star Award for exceptional talent and perseverance in the field of music during extraordinary times. 
https://www.theakademia.com/gala2021/NeniCarolinaChacin-RS.html
 
MigranTeVe Show TV Interview by William Peña Lopera in Boston aired April 2019.
 
Interview at Global Love Revolution USA Summer 2018
 
Podcast episodes available on all platforms called “My Songversation” where I share music and stories about my life and guests wisdom and experiences in Boston and Paris. Listen to the latest episodes released every two weeks and subscribe on your favorite platform:

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Marquix Global Network Interview

Check My feature story interview at Marquix Global Network news and entertainment company. 2015

Global Radio Exposure

Akademia Marketing radio division has secured the rotation of my winning song on 30+ radio stations in all the major cities around the world an avg. of 250 times for each station per month!. I was also notified that my song was #1 on the charts for a considerable amount of time. 2016

Judy Stakee songwriting

Trained and worked for Top Producer and Songwriting Coach Judy Stakee. Former Senior Vice President of Creative at Warner Chappell Music for 20 years, she signed and worked closely with many of today’s most acclaimed artists: Grammy-award winner Sheryl CrowKaty PerryMichelle BranchGavin DeGrawJewel and Joy Williams of The Civil Wars, among many others.

Oprah Winfrey award

Winner of Oprah Winfrey Best Acapella Group 

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Who is Neni Carolina Chacin?

Jazz and Gospel singer born in Venezuela but an American residing between USA & France, where she had lyrical vocal training and worked as a church choir soloist, studio singer and lead pop cover band singer for 8 years. She moved to Boston for 20 years where she continued her vocal training with Jazz and Gospel teachers from Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory of music. She focused singing as a soloist for the top gospel choirs in town, sharing the stage with Gospel recording artists and American Idol finalists, working as a studio singer arranging and singing for various productions and leading her jazz band. She co-founded thando4thanda that won the Oprah Winfrey award for best acapella group. She was also the lead cantor for the St. Francis chapel Spanish ministry for 3 years where she collaborated with Guitarist-singer songwriter Saul Garcia in many recordings, latin tv/radio shows, and live concerts. In Paris since 2014, she recorded and released multiple albums 2 in 2019 with her Parisian musicians with Meditations and JAZZ music and in 2015 released her latest award-winning Jazz CD, released a Latin pop EP in collaboration with her guitar player from Venezuela and composer Ernesto Franchi and released a Solo Gospel CD with the Mystic Chorale and other renowned Venezuelan Jazz musicians. Now based in Los Angeles, she performs regularly in France and USA with her jazz bands and is as a soloist for Archange Gospel Choir in Paris,The Boston Pops Gospel Choir in Boston and the Emeritus Gospel choir and Jazz Choir ensemble in Santa Monica College.  She also participates as a guest singer for other choirs for international tours and local performances such as Paris Opera soloist Marie Saadi with her Divinopera choir and other local LA and Boston Choirs. She is currently working on more album recordings with her jazz and latin music collaborators.

She is a singer, life coach, triathlete, kitesurfer and artist promoter who inspires people to live their dreams. Through her successful experience as an immigrant in USA and France, she supported her music career as a software engineer through her victorious battle with oral cancer in 2004 when she became more focused on health, music, and coaching.

Full Music Bio:

Originally from Maracaibo, Venezuela, but raised back and forth between California, USA and London UK. She settled in Boston USA for over 25 years and moved to Paris, France, for 6 years only to bring her back to California during the pandemic to settle back in USA again. She has been singing professionally since 1987. She has been trained by renowned Choir Directors and vocalists like Victor Galvan and Pierino Priolo from Venezuela where she was the lead singer for several local pop/rock bands opening for local and international artists and worked as a recording artist for many local CD productions, film scores, and radio jingles.

She moved to Boston in 1995 and for 3 years continued her vocal training with Berklee College of music alumni Cesar Munoz for jazz and Venezuelan folk music while singing and producing an album with a Renaissance choir Voices of a Dream. Later she joined New England Conservatory of Music with Director Hobert Yates to sing and study Gospel music, which she continued until the present. She participated in Gospel workshops including GMWA and Thomas A Dorsey Institute studying choir conducting, gospel tambourine, solo performance and choir choreography.

She has recorded multiple Albums: 2000 GMWA Mass choir Behind The Curtain, Praise Collective (winner of independent music awards 2002), produced/recorded 2003 Voices of a Dream renaissance music choir, multiple Mystic Chorale CDs (2011-2014), 2015 Suenos a Latin Pop music EP (original music by Ernesto Franch), 2015 Mysticly Gospel (Solo compilation with Mystic Chorale),  2015 Paris: Summertime in Wintertime (Paris Vida Vibrante, Meditations (to live to the fullest) 2019 with music by Barbara Arnould, PARIS II 2019 with Dave Herridge pianist. Has two more EPs and Singles with Boston Jazz guitarist Matt Boland and duet with Singer/guitarist Saul Garcia.

She participated in many Gospel Choirs where she is a frequent soloist including New England Conservatory of Music Community and Millennium Gospel Choirs, Boston Pops Gospel choir performing at Symphony Hall since 1999 yearly to date.  In 2009 she co-founded a Gospel group called Thando4Thanda who won an Oprah Winfrey award for best acapella group with the privilege to open the stage for the musical Roots at the Wang Theatre in Boston. She also sang in theatre musicals such as ART-Best of Both Worlds with the Glorious Voices choir and from Paris with Archange Gospel and other local choirs as a guest singer to perform in Paris top events and  tour in Spain and Italy and share the stage with Paris Opera soloist Marie Saadi with her Diviopera choir. Santa Monica College Emeritus Spanish Folk choir, Community Gospel Choir and Jazz Choir ensemble. 

Most of the choirs have performed at venues featuring recording Gospel and Jazz artists such Kurt Carr, Richard Smallwood, Daryl Coley, Take 6, Smokie Norful, Walkins family, Donald Lawrence and Jennifer Holiday and multiple American Idol finalists among others.

As a Latin Jazz vocalist and lead of her Vida Vibrante band she has performed with local Berklee musicians such as Matt Boland and Matt Jenson and renowned Venezuelan Jazz musicians such as Leo Blanco, Nicolas Villamizar, Carlos Capacho, Juancho Herrera, Aristides Rivas in private and public venues in Boston MA and surrounding areas, since 2002. She is a frequent performer at the renowned Jazz Club Ryles recording various live CDs with her band. She has also participated and released latin pop EP in her solo career and she teamed with Ernesto Franchi (college friend and singer/songwriter) to record his music and with Saul Garcia (singer/songwriter). She frequently participates in studio recordings and creates vocal arrangements with gospel, hip-hop, pop and jazz artists. She has toured around the world singing Gospel and Jazz (Europe, South America, and Africa). With the move to Paris, she has released her Gospel Solo compilation CD and her new Jazz CD which you can get in all online stores. Her Paris CD has been very successful in winning the Best Jazz song award which allowed her to have professional worldwide music marketing and more recently 2 more CD releases recorded with Paris musicians: Meditations to live your dreams, and PARIS II released in 2019 and 2 more EPs recorded in Boston. 

Since 2016 with her involvement with Judy Stakee songwriting retreats in Normandy France she has embarked in her own original compositions which will be included in another albums in the making “My Songversations” in collaboration with various artist from Europe including Massimiliano Donninelli an Italian orchestra conductor.

Since 2017 she has joined a renowned Gospel Choir: Archange Gospel directed by Malik Young with expands her Gospel music career as a Soloist, section leader and tambourine player in France.

In 2023 She joined the Santa Monica College choirs mixing her latin roots with the Spanish Folk Choir directed by seasoned latin musician Jesus Perez with her Gospel experience at the Emeritus Gospel Choir directed by William Bryant (former Marvin Gaye keyboardist) and leveraging her talent as a jazz singer with the 2024 acceptance in the Jazz vocal ensemble directed by Jeremiah Selvey as part of the music major program at the college as a credit course.

She continues to perform in France and USA at private and public venues with her musicians at Vida Vibrante. See the events section for future dates 

I run an artist promotion program with Artists from USA and France. I select artists and coordinate concert tours in LA, Boston, NYC and Paris to support local talent and fundraise for FREE music education provided by Zumix.org music school. To check more details about this please go to my artist promotion page. If you feel inspired by this effort feel free to donate here PayPal.Me/nenichacin and we will send you a free download of my latest Jazz CD and email a signed poster of the musicians I promote.


Bands and Choirs:

  • SMC Jazz Vocal Ensemble, directed by Jeremiah Selvey 2024 – Present
  • SMC Emeritus Spanish Folk (North, Central and South American music) choir, Directed by Jesus Perez, Santa Monica, California 2023 – Present
  • SMC Emeritus Gospel Choir, Directed by William Bryant, California, 2023 – present
  • Boston Pops Gospel choir Directed by Charles Floyd, Boston 1999- Present
  • Divinopera Choir, Directed by Marie Saadi Paris 2017-2019
  • Archange Gospel Choir, Directed by Malik Young Paris 2017 – present
  • Coral Estellarum , Directed by Maximiliano, Madrid, Spain 2016
  • Neni & Vida Vibrante (my Latin Jazz band) LA-Boston- Paris, 2005- Present
  • Voices of Blessings – female gospel ensemble directed by Martha Vedrine Boston, 2012-2014
  • New England Conservatory Community Gospel choir directed by Donnell Patterson formerly Hobert Yates Boston, 1998 -2014
  • New England Conservatory Millennium Gospel Choir Boston, 2000-2014 Directed by Patricia Dance, Donnell Patterson, Renese King, Herb Jones, James Early, Dennis Slaughter, Dennis Montgomery, David Coleman
  • Mystic Chorale Directed by Jonathan Singleton and Donnell Patterson (Gospel season) and Nick Page Boston, 2010-2014, 2019, 2021
  • Boston Community Gospel Choir Directed by Dennis Slaughter 2001-2014, 2019 Boston
  • Ethnic America Summit Choir / BNOW choir Directed by Bill Mooney-mccoy and Zenzo Matoga Boston 2010-2014
  • Back Vocals singer and director of the trio singers  “The Magnets”  for American Idol finalist Siobhan Magnus Christmas special with the Cape Cod Symphony orchestra 2012
  • Jesus is the man Choir Directed by David Coleman Boston 2012
  • CityWide Cambridge Black Pastors Conference Gospel Choir  Donnell Patterson Boston 2010 -2011
  • Glorious Voices – American Repertory theater choir  Directed by David Coleman Boston 2009 – 2011
  • The Voices of Renaissance – children’s choir Directed by Evelyn Lee Boston  2010-2014
  • Silent Unity Church soloist for service Boston 2008
  • Thando for Thanda, Acapella group self-directed, Boston, MA 2008-2009 (Award winner of the Oprah Winfrey acapella standoff 2008)
  • 2000 Park arts gospel choir, Directed by Michael Manigault Boston, Ma
  • GMWA Mass Choir, New Orleans, LA  2000
  • Voices of a Dream Renaissance choir, Directed by Joel Ockenheim Boston, MA 1995-1998
  • Cafe Rock Cover Band, Maracaibo 1991-1994
  • Banda de pop/rock de computacion, LUZ Maracaibo 1991-1994
  • Computer Science faculty Choir directed by Victor Hugo Galban, LUZ Maracaibo 1987-1994
  • Coral del Corazon de Jesus directed by Remo Priolo, Maracaibo 1993-1995, Virtual choir Canada 2020
  • Coral de la Iglesia de las Mercedes Directed by Victor Hugo Galban, Maracaibo 1988-1992
  • Coral lírica de la Iglesia de la Consolacion, Directed by Yuri Yakime, Maracaibo 1991-1995
  • Coral del Colegio Mater Salvatoris, Maracaibo 1980-1986
  • Mater Salvatoris Elementary school choir Maracaibo 1975-1978