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liver. John has been performing on and off for more than four decades. Some of John’s artistic highlights include a guest appearance on Grizzly Adams and singing with Barry Manilow and the rock band Foreigner. John is also a member of the New Mexico Gay Men’s Chorus and serves as Music Director at Metropolitan Community church. John is a graduate of the University of New Mexico and has spent the last 10 years of a 30-year career at Cedars-Sinai Medical Canter, in Los Angeles California as manager for government programs and collections, before retiring and returning to New Mexico in 2010.
When she isn't laughing at Star Trek memes or talking about how much she LOVES Iron Maiden (and boy! Does she love Iron Maiden!), Luana sings a lot. She is a contract singer for the Santa Fe Symphony and Chorus, soloist for the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Albuquerque, and a guest singer with the Tucson based Irish band, The Out of Kilters. She has performed with Opera West, Revolutions International Theater Festival, the Early Byrd Consort of Viols, the Albuquerque Philharmonic Orchestra, Opera Southwest, Musical Theater Southwest, and the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival. In the summer of 2023 she will perform the role of Niklaus in Les Contes d'Hoffmann with the International Lyric Academy.
When she's not singing herself, she's helping other people sing as a voice teacher and music director. She has music directed such shows as Les Miserables with Cibola High School, Don't Pretend Your Normal Dinner Theater with Rumble Productions, and a Christmas concert with an adorable homeschool choir in Rio Rancho. During the pandemic lockdown, she was Operations Director for World's Harmony, an international musical collaboration, for which she also directed and film edited their music video. She was also stage manager for Opera West's production of Madama Butterfly in Santa Fe in 2021.
Luana used to be a competitive gymnast and even though her creaky body can't do those fancy things any more, she teaches other people how to do those fancy things and then judges them for it. She's been a competitive gymnastics coach since she was 14 and is a nationally accredited women's gymnastics judge with USA Gymnastics and NCAA. She also holds a BS in Astrophysics from New Mexico Tech because....why not...and worked for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and VLA before she decided to focus on her performing arts career.
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