Pamela Petrarolo

Since her parents were the owners of the important Peruvian label Sono Sur, singer Pamela Rodriguez -- generally referred to as just Pamela -- was in touch with music and the music business from a very early age. She was five when she began guitar lessons. Two years later when the family fled Peru because of violence and political instability she joined a choir in their new home of Vancouver, Canada. She would return to Peru two years after that and begin piano lessons, and soon voice and music theory studies. In her teens she was offered a recording contract with the Sony lab...