User:Esther Berlanga-Ryan

Esther Berlanga-Ryan grew up on Jazz. Her father, José Berlanga Cózar, a pioneer in his own right that brought Jazz to his little town of Úbeda in Spain, when nobody around him even knew what Jazz sounded like back in 1962, made sure that she would listen to the improvised music of John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong, Charles Mingus or Duke Ellington at a very young age...and waited for the seed to grow. And it did. EBR started her professional relationship with Jazz at the age of 15, when her first radio show started to air and she began to program Jazz sounds along side with the music of Whitney Houston or Michael Jackson. That was 1991. The audience loved the difference. The show remained on the air for five years, until she decided it was time to move on to another station. That was just the beginning.

At age eighteen EBR was already interviewing Chick Corea and Eric Marienthal. At nineteen, Tete Montoliu, on an interview that sadly turned out to be his last one; he passed away two months later. And then Pedro Iturralde, Uri Caine, Byron Landham, Donald Harrison, Alphonze Mouzon, Chano Dominguez, Jorge Pardo, Carles Benavent, Larry Coryell and so many others! In the middle of all that, Opera diva Ainhoa Arteta and R&B/Soul artists like Kool & the Gang and Presuntos Implicados.

More than fifteen years of Radio Broadcasting experience as a Producer, Music Director, Program Director and Radio Host and Co-Host, together with several years of Press and TV Broadcasting and News Editing.

From February of 2005 and January of 2008, EBR wrote several articles and interviews, praised by country radio personalities such as the late Bob Grayson and former WSM Keith Bilbrey. The articles appeared on Bill Hennes' All About Country on the web. EBR interviewed artists such  as George Jones, Mark Chesnutt, Neal McCoy, Rhonda Vincent, The Grascals, Charlie Daniels, Dale Watson, Ian Tyson and Craig Morgan, among many others.

By January 2009 she decided to focus on Jazz music exclusively and joined AllAbout Jazz as an interviewer.

This bio would not be complete without EBR's current broadcasting adventure. Broadcaster, Program Director and Producer for the internet radio station Music from the Heart, through Live365.com. It started to air in January 2009. Keeping it smooth, soulful, improvised and contemporary: Smooth Jazz, R&B & Urban, Jazz...and every other touch of magic in between.

More recently, she has been working on different interviews both for All About Jazz and for her radio show Music from the Heart. Among the artists that have already shared the microphone with her are Melody Gardot, Christian McBride, Terence Blanchard, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Christian Scott, Esperanza Spalding, Stanley Clarke, Jane Monheit, Billy Childs, Marcus Miller, Al Jarreau, Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock.