From her website: http://www.bigmamamontse.com Montserrat Pratdesaba was born at St Quirze de Besora (Catalonia) in 1963, and was nicknamed Big Mama at Barcelona's legendary "Cova del Drac" club where her career and love of the blues began. “I was born in 1963 on a small town near Barcelona, Spain. Since I was a kid I took interest in music and I started playing piano, but later on my parents brought me a guitar that I learned to play for fun. Read more on Last.fm