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Name:
Krista
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Style:
Pop
Joined:
Oct 17, 2005
Latest Activity:
4 weeks ago
Subscribers:
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Krista comes from the mashed-up streets of Brooklyn, New York - Sunset Park, to be exact - where a stroll down the neighborhood streets is a kaleidoscopic merging of colors, cultures and flavors. Krista is herself a mash-up, the product of a Puerto Rican father and Italian mother, and growing up in a neighborhood rigidly defined by cultural identity, she both embraced and was alienated by her mixed-race heritage. "My neighborhood, growing up, was very hard," Krista explains, "but all the bullshit around me was what I knew I didnt want to be. I used it as a springboard to try and do everything right."
Like her mashed-up upbringing, Kristas music is an amalgamation of sounds. She is as inspired by the boisterous attitudes of early female MCs (Salt-n-Pepa, Queen Latifa), as she is the escapist rock of Evanescence and Linkin Park, or the angelic voices of singers like Celine Dion or Sarah McLachlan. Really. One moment her music pulsates with the rhymes and beats of a boastful, savvy, street-reared MC (much like the storytelling of early Tupac), and the next her voice soars with melodious lyrics of alienation and suffering - often on the same song. She mixes live instruments with bedroom beats, and incorporates the sass and fire of her heritage into everything she does.
Hometown:
Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Country:
United States
Occupation:
Singer/Songwriter
Companies:
VEL / RCA
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(1067)
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