Sonja Kristina Story

[chilledminx]

I loved Curved Air in the 70's, especially loved Sonja's voice. Wonderful to see they have regrouped and are reviving some of their old songs. Sonja you are looking good girl :)

[335fusion]

Curved Air topped the bill at my Fresher's Ball (4/10/71). Sonja and the rest of the band were first class. A great evening which I still remember after countless other great evenings which have faded from memory !

[noddyspuncture]

Sonja Kristina is a Legend...!

[Rednosty1]

Saw Curved Air in Derby in the mid 70's FANTASTIC (Never heard of them before so just turned up at a gig (Those we're the days) Sonja has lived in my memory ever since and I wish I had followed them a lot more. To this day I still rave on about Curved Air and Sonja.

[nastimtinatvar96026]

lhihihihi



[japinvt]

song you have done spoke for selves but honey you look great keep it up

[zooteraudio]

Hi Total respect, I have most of your albums , Back street love should be revamped and released in all kinds of format so everyone can get to hear the cool folk rock that was great for me. I have only just come across this site and found it very interlesting.RESPECT.

[zooteraudio]

Hi Total respect, I have most of your albums , Back street love should be revamped and released in all kinds of format so everyone can get to hear the cool folk rock that was great for me. I have only just come across

[SteffanLlwyd]

Kristina,

Thanks for that gig you did with Curved Air in Aberystwyth about 1974. Loved it...

[guyosborn]

@SteffanLlwyd Thought it was after they released Midnight Wire - so must have been 1975 - I was there too - in the Great Hall (if that is what it was called on the top of the hill campus) as usual only disgusting Newcastle Brown Ale to drink - but Curved Air were superb

[SteffanLlwyd]

@guyosborn Oh wow, that's great to get a mesage from someone who was there too. I'm trying to remember who was the support band.  My wife and I were on 'Blue Nun', by the way. Booze in Aberystwyth was awful. Other bands seen then at UCWA Osibisa, Barclay James Harvesy (bomb scare) Desmond Dekker, Queen (bad sound / walked-out!), Sutherland Bros and Quivver, Thin Lizzie, Gasworks, Kersal Flyers, Geordie, Black Oak Arkansas, Man, Alkatraz, Band Called 'O', Brewers Droop, Randy Pie. Ahhhh....

[guyosborn]

@SteffanLlwyd You left before Rory Gallagher, Led Zeppelin, George Melley? I can't remember the support band either...I do remember Sonja Kristina had a hole in her stockings/tights though. I may have been there after you - 74-78 (or was it 75 - 79? - like the 60s, if you can remember, then you weren't there!) - saw Slade too - had never been a fan of theirs but thought their live performance was fabulous - they gave it absolutely everything

[SteffanLlwyd]

@guyosborn '74-77. Slade played in '74...could't go cos you had to have sold £10 in raffle tickets to qualify. Saw Melley in Canterbury later, plus Cado Belle (the best live sound engineering I ever heard). Did you see the Jonathan Kelly band in the King's Hall, Aberystwyth? .... solo first half and fantastic second half with the full band I remembered Man and Iceberg played in the King's Hall too, not the Great Hall. Not forgetting Roger Chapman's Streetwalkers in Theatre y Werin

[kohnhed75]

There are millions of people out there that think they deserve their story be told...or people that believe that someone else's story should be told. Who cares? Curved Air had a place in English rock history. Maybe a small part but good enough to sell over 15 different albums. As far a jsilence418 goes...if you find no importance to the band or Sonja, what are you doing checking out these videos? A closet fan? Sonja wouldn't fall in love with you? You've probably not made much of yourself.

[haggisscouse]

I've loved her voice since I bought the Curved Air albums in the 70s. I saw them perform at the Philharmonic Hall in Liverpoool, an incredible gig! The surround sound in Vivaldi near made your head explode!

[robstar67]

was so madly in love her

from a distance off course

ended up marrying

the winner of a debbie harry lookalike contest

in the late 70,s

[chibiqueenie]

I can't believe Stewart Copeland got divorced of her, she is very beautiful!!!!!!!!!!

[wullmull]

that shut him up

[RenshiottParrfmFyrre]

Sonja Kristina pretty voice.

I like very much Curved Air.

[KristinaLovesJustin]

@RenshiottParrfmFyrre LOOOOOOOOOOOL....my mom calls Sonja and my name is Kristina :') pretty cool

[Fr3derick]

So wonderful!!! Thanks for the share.

Grandma Mary

[rubberdu]

Sonja makes me sleepy :)

[DiggermanNo1]

Sonja it doesn't matter which folkin club it was...!

[annasumner]

WOW!! I adore her! Thanks!!!

[borgduck]

Annie Haslam next?

[josefresko]

Don't think she was married to Stewart Copeland. He was drummer in Curved Air at one time and I believe they lived together and were an item at the time. I recall seeing them at the Roundhouse, probably in 1976, watching Greenslade (whose bassist, Tony Reeves, was also in Curved Air) and they certainly looked like a couple.

[waggythedj]

Yes she was Copeland married Curved Air vocalist Sonja Kristina in 1982. They divorced in the early 1990s. Copeland lives in Los Angeles with his second wife, Fiona Dent.

[tootstanner]

Wonderful to see Curved Air back, in my opinion they were a vastly underated band!! Had a few of their albums in the 70's, the best being "Air Cut" and "Phantasmagoria" Love this band, Sonja Kristina still beautiful as ever, a big welcome back !!!!!!!!

[scotchrumour]

Wasn't she married to Stewart Copeland for a while, in the 1980s?

[annasumner]

@scotchrumour @josefresko Copeland was romantically involved with Curved Air vocalist Sonja Kristina beginning in 1974, and they were married from 1982 to 1991. Copeland adopted Kristina's son Sven from a prior relationship, and they had two more sons together, Jordan and Scott.

[steve0306]

Phil Kohn - Ace geezer, great bass player ...

[freddieathome]

She,s a great girl,met her when gigging as a back up band some 35 years back,may she go on forever.

[ziod]

She & Curved Air helped get me through high school ha ha

[maxrobinson]

kohnhed ? Are you Phil Kohn, fantastic bass player ? Great to see you here on YouTube.

[kohnhed]

This is a wonderful woman...she looks fantastic, she is focused and wildly informative. I played bass in that band for a couple years and I can tell you that this is one classy chick. Rambling mess? You're an idiot. This woman has lived 3 lifetimes full of music and adventure....and you, jordiballs (what a clever name), what the hell have you done in life besides come up with a stupid user id that probably explains what you have in your mouth on the weekends and maybe on the weekdays as well.

[notToast]

@kohnhed jordiballs is a much better username than kohnhed, so don't sweat it partyboy.

[kohnhed75]

@notToast Boy you got me nottoast. And how did you know that partyboy is my real nickname? How did you come up with such a clever user I.D.? Way better than mine. Idiots like you should stay off comment pages that people enjoy.

[jsilence418]

@kohnhed Yeah thats great, but apart from being married to Stewart Copeland, does she deserve a "story" not likely .methinks you have an exaggerated sense of self importance curved air ? uh sure.

[sturoc0]

@kohnhed Ahhh, So you came into playing bass with Curved Air thru Daryl Way ?

[crazedwitch2]

Totally agree. Take a look at this interview on YT: Elkie Brooks interview - June 2007

For an idea of how mesmerizing coherent, articulate and youthful a 1970's rock chick can look like today.!! Then find the YT vid of Vinegar Joe - Honky Woman.

[gareththefireman]

She should breed again and have children with Keith Emerson. Wonderful, seventies, talented, groovy prog rock children with weird names and clothing. Yeah.

[bluesbrother37]

A true original singer and beauty.

[tarbuck1]

and if emerson isn't interested - then I wouldn't mind having a bash - as long as she can keep her trap shut for afew minutes!

[jkoff76]

God!! She's still a stunning.... love the Esshex accent.

[URNotMyFellowDJ]

Yup! Lead Singer with CURVED AIR>

Recognised her name right away.

I saw Curved Air live back in the 1970's. Gosh, she looks young, no wrinkles, like me. But when was this interview recorded?

Phew! Time really does stand still?

[scriltist]

This was a recent interview; the band has been touring again this year.

[rugshort]

Brentwood. The Railway pub? SC was a local Ursuline conven gal?