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Yendry Cony Fiorentino (born 27 July 1993) known mononymously as Yendry (stylized as YEИDRY) is a Dominican-Italian singer and songwriter. Yendry first achieved popularity in Italy in 2012 thanks to her participation in the sixth edition of X Factor Italy which earned her a record deal with Sony Music Italy. From 2015 to 2018 she was the frontwoman of the group Materianera. In 2020 after the release of the singles Barrio and Nena she achieved international popularity and she signed a double record deal contract with RCA Records[1] e Sony Music Latin.[2] On April 15, 2021 she was one of the performers for the Latin American Music Awards of 2021. On June 7, 2021 she was nominated as Best New artst at the 2021 MTV Millennial Awards. Her Spotify profile counts more than 12 million streams.

Early life[edit]​

Yendry was born in Santo Domingo,[3] Dominican Republic to a single mother, Rosa Maria Polanco.[4] She grew up in Herrera, one of the poorest neighborhoods in the municipality of Santo Domingo Oeste. She remained in Herrera until the age of three, where she lived with her mother and her grandmother Ramona, and then moved, due to the not exactly favorable economic conditions, definitively to the province of Turin in Italy,[5] where her mother was able to find a job that could give the possibility to economically maintain both. A few years later her mother got married and started a new family. She was able to get her daughter adopted by her husband and so Yendry grew up with her adoptive father and her brothers.[6] She began to discover her predisposition for music during the period of the liceo linguistico.[7] She started to attend singing class alongside a modeling career that led her to participate in the regional selections of Miss Italia and then to win the title of Miss Deborah Piemonte in 2012.[8][9] Also in 2012 she participated in the auditions of the sixth edition of X Factor, passed the selections and became part of the program, even if she didn't reach the semi-final she managed to get however a recording contract with Sony Music Italy that she ended in 2014. From 2015 to 2018 she was the voice of the group Materianera , again in 2018 she moved to London to work on her project as a solo artist in Spanish which will lead her to sign a double recording contract with Sony Music Latin and RCA Records. Since 2020 she lives in Miami where she regularly carries out her singing career.

YEИDRY
Birth nameYendry Cony Fiorentino
Also known as
  • Yendry Fiorentino
BornJuly 27, 1993 (age 28)
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Origin
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • model
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • piano
  • guitars
Years active2012–present
Labels
Associated acts
Websiteyendrymusic.com
 
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