Ximena learned how to sing at the same time she learned to speak. As early as two, she attended her first concert by the goddess of jazz Ella Fitzgerald and immediately fell in love with the genre. From then on, jazz would always be a part of her life.

But as much as Ximena loved jazz, her musical taste extended to other genres where she discovered Paul Simon, Tracy Chapman and Carmina Burana. You could always spot Ximena singing and dancing at unsuspected places like the supermarket isle or aside some fountain around the city. Her playtime was always accompanied by music, which was her medium to her imagination. This way she could become a mermaid or unicorn and move to worlds only known to her.

When she first learned how to read she became a fan of literature. That’s one of the reasons Ximena is a natural story – teller. Her songs narrate stories of characters that reflect Ximena’s inner world where love, relationships, leaving the nest and “shedding skin” is the centerfold of her songs.

Ximena was six years old and she wouldn’t stop singing, until one day her neighbor Cecilia Toussaint discovered her. She recommended Ximena to take vocal lessons with her professor Ricardo Sanchez who at that time was teaching all the well known stars in Mexico. Ricardo was very enthusiastic about Ximena because regardless of her young age she was outgoing and dedicated.

She also studied piano and from a young age took lessons with Hanna Cot. The love and affection with, which professor Cot thought her students made Ximena fall in love with music forever.

Ximena later attended the “Academia de Musica Fermatta” where she would form her first band called “Feliz No Cumpleanos”, which translates to “Not So Happy Birthday”

But it isn’t until Ximena was granted a scholarship to the five week program at Berklee School of Music in Boston, where she started her search as a composer. Five weeks after she bagan at Berklee she wrote her first composition for the movie “Amarte Duele “.At that point, Ximena understood she had a lot of things to say through her music and since then she hasn’t stopped.

Upon Ximena return from Boston, she was be determined to write her own songs and become not only a performer but also a producer and composer of her own musical material.