[2] In 2007, at twelve, she began to play in the Sant Andreu Jazz Band, led by teacher and musician Joan Chamorro.

[3] In 2010, at the age of fifteen, she recorded an album of jazz standards, Joan Chamorro Presents Andrea Motis.,[4] featuring Bobby Gordon.

"[6] From 1–4 November 2015, Motis (tp, sax, voc), Chamorro (b, ts) and Josep Traver (g) played as the opening act of Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club at their "Adiós"-tour concerts in Boston[7] and New York.

[10] They performed a duet on El cant dels ocells, a catalonian folk song[11] which has come to world-wide prominence by Pau Casals (Cello).

[13] Loopholes (2022) is an album of the namesake quintet which Motis co-leads with her husband Christoph Mallinger, an Austrian jazz violinist.