About Me

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Roxana Damas is a singer, songwriter, advocate, and entrepreneur born in San Francisco, California, and selected as a 2017 U.N. Empower Women Champion for Change. She holds an MBA from Saint Mary's College, and Bachelors Degree from UC Davis. Despite being a multi-talented community leader, at the core, Roxana is a true performer, singer-songwriter, and dancer. Throughout her career, she has worked as a model, actor, on-air personality, public speaker, and overall entertainer, as well as a fashion show, festival, and film producer. Roxana has recorded with Bay Area legends like Pete Escovedo and Platinum Producer James Jae-E Early, who produced artists such as MC Hammer, EnVogue, David Bowie, and E-40; Carlos Gogo Gomez, world-renowned percussionist, worked with top entertainers like Madonna, Quincy Jones, Eartha Kitt, Gypsy Kings, and more.

Damas has been a lead singer to various bands, including Luv-Taxi, a Northern California-based band led by former musicians of the successful Lowrider band Sueños. She was taught to embrace her Salvadoran roots and has had the honor of performing with many Salvadoran artists and being the opening act for Crooked Stilo, Marito Rivera y su Grupo Bravo, La Raza Band, Rene Mena musical director of El Salvador Symphony, and others. Early in her career, she won many 1st place singing and songwriter competitions in California and Nevada in the Spanish market, such as the El Festival de la Cancion Internacional de California.

She has performed extensively in the U.S. and abroad as a singer, particularly at events highlighting women leaders, such as the Mondavi Theater honoring Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchu, Judge Sotomayor San Francisco Inauguration, Women for Women conference in Ecuador, to name a few. She has been the only Bay Area local female act to open for Reggaeton concerts like Ivy Queen. Roxana has also been cast as the lead actress and singer for theatrical pieces like Andares, a story of El Salvador and healing from the Civil War, at the San Francisco International Arts Festival, selected as Latina’s Changing the World-Keynote speaker and performance Luncheon by Google & Tecla Awards. Her early career was abruptly stopped due to a health condition that almost cost her life on 3 occasions (PCOS hormonal imbalance affecting 1 out of 4 women and girls). Working with We Are 1 Somos 1 collaborative is her return project to full performance after a long healing journey. Roxana is excited to bring her joy, love, passion, and positive attitude for life to the stage at a time when the world needs it the most.