Marcela Bovio

Marcela Alejandra Bovio García (born October 17, 1979) is a Mexican singer, violinist and songwriter who is currently a member of the Dutch symphonic metal bands Stream of Passion (since 2005) and MaYaN (since 2017).

In 1995, she joined Hydra, a Mexican metal band, singing and playing violin. In 1999 they released an EP called "Bosquejo". After leaving them, Bovio co-founded the Mexican experimental rock band Elfonía in 2001, which was active until 2006. In 2003, she responded to a "casting call" by Dutch musician Arjen Anthony Lucassen for relatively unknown singers, who chose her to play the character of Wife in the Ayreon album The Human Equation. In 2005, he also picked her for his new project, the progressive metal band Stream of Passion. The band released their debut album Embrace the Storm the same year, with Bovio acting as sole lyricist. Lucassen left the band to continue on its own in 2007; this resulted in Bovio acting as band leader and one of the main songwriters (including for composition) on subsequent albums. Stream of Passion initially disbanded in December 2016, but reformed in October 2022.

In September 2016, Bovio independently released her first solo album, Unprecedented, a classical album consisting of original songs she wrote; it was followed by Through Your Eyes in 2018. She joined MaYaN as a full-time member in 2017, after regular collaborations with the band since 2013. She regularly acts as backing vocalist for other bands, notably Epica and The Gentle Storm, and was also one of the founding members of VUUR in 2016.

Bovio started music around the age of five alongside her sister Diana; she sang, played recorder and western concert flute, and studied music theory. At age 17, she formed a cover band with her friends in which she was bass guitarist, but the band later decided that she would perform better as lead vocalist; around that time, she started classical singing lessons and violin, and became interested in rock and heavy metal.

Early in their careers, Bovio and her then-boyfriend Alejandro Millán were members of a band called Hydra.

After leaving Hydra, Bovio and Millán formed the experimental/progressive rock band Elfonía in 2001, originally as a duo. They subsequently extended into a quintet for their self-titled debut album in 2003.

Two years later they released their second studio album, This Sonic Landscape, which they described as a fusion of many music genres, including progressive rock, jazz, ambient music, and gothic rock. The band eventually split up in December 2006.

In 2003, Bovio responded to a "casting call" by Dutch musician Arjen Anthony Lucassen for relatively unknown singers to be featured on one of his albums. Lucassen then chose her to play the character of Wife in his Ayreon album The Human Equation, released in 2004, which became Lucassen's best-selling album at the time.