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Rain From Heaven

just tell me when you wanna ride

dream pop, folk, indie pop

Raised in a musical family in rural upstate New York, Isabel Vazquez is a vocalist, composer, and producer who began her musical journey after saving up money and moving to London alone as a teenager. She keeps this story somewhat elusive, but one can guess that this call for a nomadic lifestyle comes from a longing for something unearthly, a quest to not go astray, a search to soothe a broken heart. A medicine that she found in herself.

Vazquez's mesmerizing and powerful voice guided her to walk her own path with sensitivity, intuition, and gentleness, leading to the first single "just tell me when you wanna ride" of her debut album to be released in 2025 as Rain From Heaven (Petra Coeur).

Carrying her Italian and Indigenous American/Chicano heritage, which heavily influenced her tastes and vocal style, she's now taking the risks of starting her career from scratch, with no management or team, guided only by the self-determination of an Indigenous descent and by the historical injustice of relatives who were forced away from their homelands into urban poverty.

Shot by Vazquez during an artistic residency in the Italian village of Toffia, the video offers a glimpse into the distinctive vocals and the nostalgic lo-fi dream pop world of Rain From Heaven. Depicting a strong desire for something unattainable, she soothes her heart through a romance for small details: birds, wildlife, old statues, the sun, the moon, a bedroom, murals in ruins. Even though the song is a very shy introduction to what Rain From Heaven is capable of, it documents the honest process of falling out of love, just before riding as a free bird, with a solid heart.

Rolas de Aztlán: Songs of the Chicano Movement - Album by Various Artists -  Apple Music
Covering 30 years of history, Rolas de Aztlán: Songs of the Chicano Movement is an important collection of folk songs from the Chicano movement, which began in the Southwest in the mid-'60s and continues today.
Rolas Inolvidables De Aztlan - Chicano Park Museum
Archive from the Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center