Jezabel Careaga, entrepreneur, business owner, wood worker, designer and community leader, was born and grew up in the small town of Palpalá, in the province of Jujuy, NW Argentina. She has a BS in Tourism & Hotel Management with focus on international languages and an Executive Business Program. 

After an intensive training and a very formative work experience in an 800-room hotel in Miami, she moved to Philadelphia to start her own business, Jezabel’s Café, which opened its doors in June 2010.

In December 2018 she relocated the business to West Philadelphia where it has been operating ever since, and expanding to include cooking classes, private and special events, a boutique for the kitchen and her latest venture, Jezabel’s Atelier where furniture designed and made by Jezabel is displayed.

Los Tekis (“boys” in Quichua, an indigenous language family spoken by the Quechua peoples, primarily living in the Andean highlands), is a Jujuy folklore group. Composed of vocalist Sebastián López with Juanjo Pestoni on percussion, Mauro Coletti on winds, Walter Sader on guitar, and Pucho Ponce on bass, Los Tekis focuses on the music originating in the Argentine Northwest and Bolivia, such as carnavalitos, bailecitos, huaynos and taquiraris, using native instruments such as sikus, zampoñas, quenas and charangos. They made their debut at the 1991 Cafayate Serenade Festival, although they had played together for many years. Their debut album,“Los Tekis,” was released in 1995. Since then, they have amassed an international following, traveling across the Americas each year, and in 2015, they were awarded their first Latin Grammy Award.

On June 23, 2018, their latest release, the CD + DVD “El Carnaval de Los Tekis,” was released after being recorded at the 2018 Jujuy carnival. The DVD includes a short documentary about the group and their work.

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In this mouth watering culinary themed episode of Happy Hour on the Fringe, Marketing Manager Raina Searles speaks with Bartender Resa Mueller and Chef Jezabel Careaga who will each be leading interactive culinary experiences during the 2020 Audi FEASTIVAL Virtual Dinner Series: No Pants, No Problem with Resa Mueller and Carnaval Jujeño with Jezebel Careaga. Listen to our guests discuss the origins of these events, their own backgrounds, their organizations response to the Covid Pandemic, and more!