Name	Claudia Brant
Height
Naionality	Argentina
Date of Birth	21-July-1968
Place of Birth	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Famous for	Singing

Claudia Brant is an Argentine singer and composer of international acclaim. She has composed songs for singers like Il Divo, Ricky Martin, Anahi, Santana, Luis Fonsi, Chayanne, Tito Nieves, Olga Tanon, Paulina Rubio, La Ley or Víctor Manuelle. Claudia also has teamed with composers as famous as the acclaimed David Foster, Walter A., Noel Schajris (Sin Bandera), Gianmarco, Jorge Luis Piloto, Luis Fonsi and Gabriel Flores.

Claudia Alejandra Menkarski was born July 21, 1968 in Buenos Aires, Argentina where she grew up.Influenced by her parents that listened to a diverse range of music (Frank Sinatra to Nino Bravo), Claudia Brant discovered her love for music since the age of six, when she composed her first song. Seeing this, her parents gave her a guitar and started playing it by ear. Then put her in guitar lessons. Then she learned to play also bass and piano. Writing verses, however, it was very easy for her. And because she had no brothers spent hours in his room trying to find chords and invent melodies, while wrote his songs and recorded his compositions in a cassette. His first experiences in music she lived it in the study. She worked in the recording of jingles and even got a contract with a label. When she was 16 and 17 years, worked in Argentina, writing songs about the typical problems of adolescents. Diego Torres and Cristian Castro recorded her songs. That led her to Los Angeles, California. Later, she returned to Buenos Aires, where she studied architecture.

Professionally, she started composing at 19 or 20 years and started singing in 1991. It was in this year when she won the Festival OTI in Mexico with the theme ‘¿Donde estas ahora?’ ('Where are you now?)". Since 2006 or 2007 she began working with regional Mexican music exponents. Despite all their success, "No me doy por vencido", a song recorded by Luis Fonsi (and composed by both artists) in 2008, has been the song most successful of Claudia Brant so far. The song, reached # 1 in the United States, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Spain, Chile, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and most of Central and South America. She has also released five solo albums that include songs written for other artists. She composed songs like "Mas" (More) by Ricky Martin, "Gritar" (Scream) and "Respira" (Beathe) by Luis Fonsi, "Camina conmigo" (Walk with me) by Haash or "Hasta el final" (Until the end) by Il Volo. She won the OTI Festival in 1991 and the Festival of Vina del Mar in 1994 or 1995 with the theme "Como ayer", as author and interpreter, being the first representative of Argentina to win it. The two songs were sung by her. Brant was awarded as Songwriter of the Year of Latina SESAC in three consecutive times in United States from the period 2006–07, addition to the Latin Grammy and Premio Oye (Hey Award.) In 2010, Claudia Brant was awarded three international awards: the Latin Grammy 2009 (from the Latin Academy of Recording United States) in Las Vegas for his song "Aquí estoy yo" (Here I Am), Hey Prize 2009 (Academy Mexican Music) in Guanajuato, México, by "No me doy por vencido" (No I give up) (that was included in the category of Song of the Year), and the title of Songwriter of the Year 2009 awarded by the Monitor Latino Convention in Los Angeles, California.

The latter has received the decision of a broad panel of representatives from radio and the music industry across the United States. To this is added to SESAC Latina Award # 1 in 2009 for his song "Aquí estoy yo" (Here I Am), that performed by co-author Luis Fonsi with David Bisbal, Aleks Syntek and Noel Schajris and swept the charts in Latin America and Spain, and spent 35 weeks at the top of the Billboard chart in the U.S. She also received two nominations Latin Grammy for the album "Manuscrito (Manuscripts)" in early 2011, for best recording´s engineering and by Best Female Pop Vocal Album.

In addition, in that same year, she received the third nomination in the twelfth edition of the Latin Grammys, that she shared with the Cuban Desmond Child, on the "Song of the Year" category for the song "Lo mejor de mi Vida eres tu" (Best of my life is you), played by Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin and the Spanish Natalia Jimenez.