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Ivette Dumeng was born in Brooklyn, New York, a middle child of Puerto Rican and French roots, raised by a single mother and two brothers in NYC. She began singing in a choir at the young age of 8 years old.

Ivette is actively pursuing her artistic career in a full time capacity. Ivette is an actor and is currently training with Terry Schreiber at T. Schreiber Studio. She formerly attended the Actor's Theatre Workshop, Master Class Conservatory taught by Thurman E. Scott. She has also studied with Sandra Lee, Sandy Shurin, Robert McCaskill, and Greta Seacat. She has worked with such prominent music teachers as Deb Silver, Marni Nixon and Linda Beasley, a.k.a. Jnani and Mary Rodgers and is currently working with Amy London.

She has appeared in several films, Strangers with Candy, playing a high school trouble maker, 7 Jobs in 7 Seven days as an art dealer and will be shooting Chaography this summer with Douglas Chang. Recent stage productions of Fuente Ovejuna dir Andy Goldberg, The Monkey Show dir by John P Shanley and Paper Dragon by Alisha Silver with Nylon Fusion Collective. While taking classes at Juilliard, she met many great teachers and artists who have inspired and energized her pursuits of the arts. For new project information please click on Recent News

Two time winner of the New York Music Festival for best vocalist; Ivette completed Intimate Sacrifice in 2007 and is currently working on a new music project - original works in collaboration with Ted Nash ( Frank Kimbrough on Piano, Paul Sikievie on Bass and Brian Carter on drums and Ted Nash on soprano and flute).  It is a departure from her last album Intimate Sacifice. She has cited influences as Frank Sinatra, Nina Simone, Fiona Apple and Sting with emphasis on percussion and sultry, soulful lyrics.

Ivette Dumeng has appeared in various TV commercials such as McDonalds, Verizon, KFC to name a few and various magazines including "O" and Vogue.

Always experimenting and learning from poets of the past, Ivette continues to write her collection of poetry, titled "Heart Drops." The collection is influenced by the works of Leroi Jones and Rainer Maria Rilke.