“Amanecer,” a seven-song album released by Burlington-area singer-songwriter Marcie Hernandez in late November, is a stunning debut by a seriously promising artist that delivers a captivating blend of Latin rhythms and instrumentation with spellbinding indie folk sensibilities.

Hernandez, a Puerto Rican artist who grew up in Rochester, N.Y., has worked for years in the Burlington area as a board-certified music therapist. Using music as a tool to help and heal others in her professional life, she has also delved into her own songwriting and performing, spending more than 4 years working on the songs that would become her first album.