Andrea Vicich was born in Lima, Peru. Daughter of immigrant refugees from Former Yugoslavia and granddaughter of survivors of concentration camps during World War II.
Andrea was inspired to write “The Miracle of Basilio” based on her own experience of survival during the 1992 bloodiest terrorist attack in Lima, Peru.
Andrea is a recognized singer, songwriter, writer, radio host, television presenter, film director and humanitarian.
Over her career spanning more than 20 years, she has done music direction for important companies including Disney, Carnival Cruise Lines, Telemundo (NBC), Huggies, The Lakers. Andrea has directed more than 200 shows for Disney doing voice overs, singing and dubbing Spanish cartoons.
She has taken her music to the USA, Mexico, El Salvador, Panama, Colombia, Argentina, Brasil, Peru, Australia, Spain, Italy, Serbia and Montenegro. She wrote, sang and directed the 2014 Hymn of the World Congress of Families (WCF) held in Sydney, Australia.
She has 7 music albums and has hosted and directed a children’s television program in Los Angeles at TV stations ESNE, Almavision, Guadalupe Radio and Telemundo NBC.
She was pre nominated for the Latin Grammy 2010 and has been given the ASCAP best new songwriter award in 2006.
In 2010 she founded a Southern California based nonprofit “Angels of Charity and Music” that provides free medical surgeries, a cancer fund (Andrea is a cancer survivor), scholarships in medicine and the arts and anti-bullying programs for underprivileged women and children in USA, Serbia, Montenegro, Mexico and Peru.
Andrea has been awarded with humanitarian awards by the U.S. Congress, California Senate and State Assembly, the City of Los Angeles among others. In 2015 she received an award by Peruvian Foreign Affairs Ministry as the most successful humanitarian of the year. In 2016 she received an award as "Hispanic Woman of 2016", in the field of The Arts by the United States Congress and the California Senate.