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- WINNER INLAND EMPIRE MUSIC AWARDS 2005 - BEST OUT OF COUNTY
- WINNER ORANGE COUNTY MUSIC AWARDS 2005 - BEST FEMALE VOCALIST
- NOMINEE ORANGE COUNTY MUSIC AWARDS 2005 - BEST SONG
- "She's At Home on Any Stage" - O.C. Register Dec 2004
- All Access Magazine "Jet Speed Records Showcase - Plush at the Key Club"
- Vanessa Zarate took home the Best Female performer award, and I hear she's on the verge of signing a record deal...then Vanessa Zarate hushed the house with a gorgeous soaring opera, a nice change-up to the evening.
----- OC Metro May 2005
- Vanessa Zarate, who was all slim and disgustingly sexy in some leather-type spangly pants, sang some fool kind of opera thing in a soprano truer and more pure than any I've heard, and I've heard Kiri Te Kanawa and Cecilia Bartoli.
----- OC Weekly
- Soprano Vanessa Zarate silenced the crowd with a well delivered aria.
----- OC Register