Gabriella Quevedo


Gabriella Evelina Quevedo is a Swedish guitarist.

Early life

Quevedo grew up in Kinna and developed an interest in guitar because her father played the instrument. Her father is from Argentina and her mother is Argentine-Swedish. In addition to Swedish, she also speaks English and understands Spanish.
She began playing guitar at age twelve, quickly discovering, and mastering fingerstyle guitar techniques, which led to her recording a number of covers of other guitarists' performances and her own guitar arrangements on YouTube.
In 2012, she won first prize in the category of "young talent" on the Uppsala International Guitar Festival.
In 2014, she won the Ryan Seacrest Contest for the best cover of the song "Young Girls" by Bruno Mars.
In 2016, she was awarded the Hagström grant of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
In July 2018, her studio album entitled Acoustic Cover Songs Vol. 1 containing 16 songs appeared on Spotify, iTunes, Deezer, Amazon Music, Google Play Music, Tidal, YouTube Music and Apple Music.
At the end of 2019, Gabriella released her first original musics "Last Time" and "Remember". They were recorded at Mono Music Studio in Stockholm, established by former ABBA member Benny Andersson.
In 2025, Gabriella's YouTube channel had 1.64 million subscribers and 309 million views. Her cover of Pink Floyd's Another Brick In The Wall has over 23 million views on YouTube.

Guitar

She first learned to play on her father's Yamaha guitar, but later her parents bought Quevedo her own guitar, a "shiny black Yamaha with a cutaway", which is seen in her earlier videos on YouTube, and which was signed by Tommy Emmanuel.
She later started playing Taylor Guitars, first a custom Taylor GC8e, then a Taylor 912ce and a custom Taylor 812ce. Quevedo has had commercial arrangements with Taylor Guitars and G7th, The Capo Company.

Concerts

Gabriella Quevedo has appeared in concerts in Sweden, Norway, Germany, the US and Asia, including:
Quevedo cites her main influences as Tommy Emmanuel, Sungha Jung, Kotaro Oshio and Andy McKee, whose music she has included in her recordings and performance repertoires, and with whom she has appeared in concerts in Sweden and on the international stage.
Quevedo's musical style draws inspiration from that of Marcin Patrzalek, Kent Nishimura, and Polyphia.

Discography

Studio albums
  • Acoustic Cover Songs Vol. 1
  • Last Time
  • Remember
  • Gabriella’s Acoustic Arrangements
  • Acoustic ABBA Covers
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