Amaia Montero Saldías is a singer/songwriter from Basque Country, Spain, who has sung in a variety of languages, including Basque, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, French and English among others. She was the original vocalist of the Basque-Spanish pop-band La Oreja de Van Gogh between 1996 and 2007. Before fronting LOVG, she attended UPV/EHU studying Chemistry, where she met the rest of the members of La Oreja de Van Gogh. When the band became famous, she switched studies to Psychology at the UNED, but she later stopped studying. Her personality has been described as sociable, fun, and very accessible; and although Montero has played for crowds of over 120,000 she claims to be very shy.