Jazz Articles about Kristina

Kristina: Offshore Echoes

by Edward Blanco
January 15, 2010

Oakland singer-songwriter Kristina Smith--who prefers to go by her first name--makes a charming debut with the ambitious Offshore Echoes. Drawing on a multicultural background, she channels music from Afro-Cuban, Brazilian and world rhythms to American music for a varied and rich palette of styles. Kristina is part Angolan, German and Native American (Cherokee Indian), giving her an interesting perspective and a lifetime of multicultural experiences from which to blend different cultural elements and rhythms. The repertoire was a personal choice, ...