Lourdes Hernández González (born 20 November 1985),[1] known professionally as Russian Red, is a Spanish indie and folk singer-songwriter.

[2] Her career took off after she met Brian Hunt, a musician with an English father and Spanish mother, with whom she recorded a demo that by 2008 had reached more than 70,000 visits on her MySpace page.

[citation needed] After a break in December 2011, she resumed touring in Europe and Asia with a new concert format, accompanied by Hunt and Pablo Serrano; Serrano was later replaced by Juan Diego "Juandi" Gosálvez, and in late 2012 the three also performed five concerts as a tribute to the Beatles, with Alex Ferreira as bassist and vocalist in one of the songs.

[12] In October 2011 she covered the Leonard Cohen song "So Long, Marianne" as a tribute to him,[citation needed] and she was the voice of Mérida on the Castilian Spanish version of the soundtrack of the 2012 Disney / Pixar film Brave.

[6][13] Her move to a major label disappointed some of her indie fans,[2] and there were rumors that she was in a relationship with soccer player Xabi Alonso, who was married.

[1] In 2015, she made her acting debut with Carlos Troya in El beso, a crowd-funded short film directed by David Priego.