Ailyn

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Pilar Giménez García (May 29, 1982), professionally known as Ailyn (originally An Ling), is a Spanish singer born in Esplugues de Llobregat. She is the female vocalist of the Norwegian Gothic metal band Sirenia since 2008, and is also known as a member of the young team in El Factor X, the Spanish version of X Factor.
Her musical career started at the age of 15, when she studied solfege and classical singing at The Albéniz School of Music.
Her professional debut was in 2002 in Cornellà de Llobregat, in an annual benefit fashion show the city held to raise money for Alzheimer's sufferers.
Her first discographic contract was as part of the group Charm (a female vocal trio that played anime songs, J-pop and J-rock). After their first album titled "Konnichiwa" and released in 2003, she wanted to try her luck as a solo artist, she began recording tracks on her own. In 2004, after completing some tunes for the "Kimagure Orange Road" anime series, she left the group.
On April 9, 2008 it was announced that Ailyn was chosen as the new singer of Sirenia out of over 500 women. "I got selected as Sirenia’s new vocalist as an accident," she later told an interviewer. "My sister added them to my myspace’s friends, but we didn’t realize that if you wanted to audition for the band you had to send them your demo or add them as friends, so I was shocked when they wrote to me asking to go to Norway and audition for the new vocalist. I went there twice, the first time was a studio audition and the second one with all the band members. I think I was selected because I’m what Morten was looking for the band, and also since the first moment we connected all the members from Sirenia and me."[1]
Her first album with the band is The 13th Floor, which was released on January 23, 2009. She is also the female vocalist on Sirenia's fifth album The Enigma of Life, released on January 21, 2011. Although Henriette Bordvik performed vocals on both An Elixir for Existence and the EP Sirenian Shores, the release of the Enigma of Life makes Ailyn the first female vocalist to record two full-length albums with Sirenia.

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