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Ms Aran made her performace debut at age 5 in her native Mexico city. In 1991 she was accepted to the National School of Music in Mexico City where she studied classical piano, composition and voice for the following 5 years.  In 1994 she also enrolled in the Jazz Studies Program at the Superior School of Music where she formed her first Jazz Quartet: Art Deco.   In 1996, she joined forces with other jazz singers in Mexico to form the vocal octet, "Cuicanitl", with whom she opened for blues legend B.B. King as well as for jazz great George Benson during his Mexico City concert in 1997. They released an independent album,"Solo Voices" to critical acclaim in 1999.

In 1999, Sandra received a scholarship from Berklee College of Music in Boston and a scholarship from the National Endowment for the Arts in Mexico to study at Berklee and periodically return to Mexico City to teach voice and improvisation. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in vocal performance in 2001. That same year, she founded the Sandra Aran Jazz Quartet in Boston performing extensively throughout the Boston area.

In 2008 Sandra relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area where she promptly resumed her performance schedule at venues such as the Ritz Carlton Half Moon Bay, The Hedley Club Jazz Lounge and the Bach Dynamite and Dancing Society. In 2010 her Jazz quartet was selected to perform under the auspices of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra in their prestigious Adventures in Music Program.  Within this program, Sandra and her ensemble spread the word of Jazz through didactic concerts at every public elementary school in the San Francisco School District.

Sandra has recorded 4 independent albums, including “Introducing Sandra Aran” (2005) with drum phenomenon Antonio Sanchez (Pat Metheny), trumpet legend Claudio Roditi and the New England String Quartet.

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