Zayra Enid Álvarez Dones is a Puerto Rican[4] singer and musician, currently based in Texas.
Alvarez continued to work in the Latin music scene, getting airplay for her debut single "Hoy" on stations throughout Puerto Rico and the US.
[12] After a program director for Entravision Communications happened upon her performing at the Grove in Los Angeles, "Hoy" enjoyed further airplay, which led Sony Norte to release a second single, "Cada Momento".
[15] Los Angeles Times pop music critic Ann Powers stated that "Rockstar's most intriguing contestant, the Puerto Rican punk chanteuse Zayra Alvarez",[16] while her hometown paper, the Dallas Observer, referred to her as having a "serious, possibly fatal, pitch deficiency".
[17] Marc Hirsh declared that "Zayra quickly learned to own her weirdness and start driving it without fear... without changing her style or even necessarily improving, she revealed herself to be what allmusic.com's postseason roundtable referred to as 'the most exciting, original, and audacious' singer in the entire competition.
[28] She has worked as a photographer for Blue October[29] and co-directed a music video for Tori Velasquez with Merritt Fields.
[30] In 2014, Zayra started a line of prints she illustrated named The Sleepy Heads Collection by Pepper Love.