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Cristina

Cristina has been played on NTS over 30 times, featured on 31 episodes and was first played on 29 January 2013.

There is more than one artist with this name, including:

1) Cristina Monet Zilkha (née Monet-Palaci, born in New York City on 2 January 1959; died 1 April 2020), known mononymously as Cristina, was an American singer and writer remembered for her new wave recordings made for ZE Records in the late 1970s and early 1980s in New York City. She was born into opulence and wealth, attending Harvard and London's School of Drama, floating freely between flats in London, Paris and New York City. In 1978, while working at a theater critic for the Village Voice, she met her future husband and founder of Ze Records Michael Zelkha. Zelkha was itching to get into the NYC underground punk/disco scenes, so they recorded a single called "Disco Clone," an incisive, if irritating satire of disco culture for which they enlisted the production talents of John Cale and hilariously corny vocal narration by actor Kevin Kline. Thankfully, the music improved by leaps and bounds by the time Cristina was recording her debut full-length Doll in the Box, but "Disco Clone" pretty much established Cristina's modus operandi: sleek, downtown Studio 54 jams with Cristina's haughty, detached, Brechtian vocal style; demonstrating her cool disillusionment with nightclubs full of "bored-looking bankers dancing with beautiful models." She released two albums: Cristina in 1980 (now re-released as Doll in the box) and Sleep It Off in 1984.

2) Cristina is an artist from Romania playing R&B songs.

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Cristina

Cristina has been played on NTS over 30 times, featured on 31 episodes and was first played on 29 January 2013.

There is more than one artist with this name, including:

1) Cristina Monet Zilkha (née Monet-Palaci, born in New York City on 2 January 1959; died 1 April 2020), known mononymously as Cristina, was an American singer and writer remembered for her new wave recordings made for ZE Records in the late 1970s and early 1980s in New York City. She was born into opulence and wealth, attending Harvard and London's School of Drama, floating freely between flats in London, Paris and New York City. In 1978, while working at a theater critic for the Village Voice, she met her future husband and founder of Ze Records Michael Zelkha. Zelkha was itching to get into the NYC underground punk/disco scenes, so they recorded a single called "Disco Clone," an incisive, if irritating satire of disco culture for which they enlisted the production talents of John Cale and hilariously corny vocal narration by actor Kevin Kline. Thankfully, the music improved by leaps and bounds by the time Cristina was recording her debut full-length Doll in the Box, but "Disco Clone" pretty much established Cristina's modus operandi: sleek, downtown Studio 54 jams with Cristina's haughty, detached, Brechtian vocal style; demonstrating her cool disillusionment with nightclubs full of "bored-looking bankers dancing with beautiful models." She released two albums: Cristina in 1980 (now re-released as Doll in the box) and Sleep It Off in 1984.

2) Cristina is an artist from Romania playing R&B songs.

Original source: Last.fm

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Things Fall Apart
Cristina
Island Records1981
Is That All There Is?
Cristina
Island Records, Ze Records1980
You Rented A Space
Cristina
ZE Records2004
You Rented A Space
Cristina
ZE Records2004
The Lie Of Love
Cristina
Mercury1984
Temporarily Yours
Cristina
ZE Records, Island Records1980
Deb Behind Bars (Alternate Version)
Cristina
ZE Records2004
Disco Clone
Cristina
Island Records1981
Ticket To The Tropics
Cristina
Mercury1984
La Poupee Qui Fait Non
Cristina
ZE Records1980