Christina Black: biography, creativity, career, personal life

Christina Black linked her life to a musical instrument such as a harp. For the first time as a musician they heard about her in 2010. Now she has several albums on her account. Kristina Black also has a writing talent, published in well-known publications in her country, writes reviews of compositions by popular musicians.

Biography

Christina Black is an amazing girl with a unique talent, she writes beautiful music and published in famous publications in Los Angeles and New York. Christina's date of birth is not indicated in any of the Internet sources, but it is known that a celebrity was born in Pennsylvania, in Pittsburgh. In this village, the family of the future singer and harpist did not live long, later they decided to move to New Orleans. She studied on such musical instruments as a piano and a harp. The girl began to play the piano at the age of four. As for the harp, her mother instilled a love for this instrument to Christine. According to the heroine of the article, her mother wanted to be comforted and entertained daily, but who, if not her daughter, would be better for this purpose than anyone else.

In 2000, the girl moved to New York with her parents. Here she meets baritone ukulele, Michael Leviton becomes her mentor. Christina tries to write poetry and shift them to music. Now the girl lives in Los Angeles, her work is in demand, events from her life, dates of tours, interviews with famous people are published on her own website.

Discography

In 2010, the first and so far only Christina Black album was born. It is called "The Ditty Sessions". The girl recorded it in 2009, in the home studio of the Galactic group. Location of the studio: New Orleans. Later, Troy Andrews' album titled Trombone Shorty, Backatown will be recorded here.

Christina Black is compared with other popular artists. These included singer Nico. The writing style has some similarities with Joni Mitchell. But she is by no means accused of plagiarism.

One of the periods of Christina Black's life is associated with the musician Ben Ellman from the Galactic band. The girl also has experience working with Alex McMurray, in turn, the man is known for the HBO Tremei series. Brian Coogan is another lucky person with whom Christina happened to collaborate; he is a keyboard player from the Maelstrom Trio group. She worked in tandem with Alex Chilton, vocalist from Box Tops and Big Star. The singer’s creative biography also includes the fact of recording the soundtrack for the series, shot in the genre of family drama called “Parents” (to be more precise, this means season 2, episode 13). Date of publication of the series: 01/18/2011.

Alex McMurray, Alex Chilton and Brian Coogan took part in the recording of the mini-album. Unfortunately, for Alex Chilton, this record was the last in his life, since he died on March 17, 2010. Ben Ellman was the sound engineer for this record.

It is noteworthy that the background to the creation of some songs for the album is associated with Hurricane Katrina, which gave the girl inspiration. According to Christina Black, it is likely that the album would not have been released if it had not been for Katrina, which became a tragedy for New Orleans, which claimed the lives of about 2, 000 people in 2005.

Singles

"When I Think of Christmas" (November 21, 2011);
"Summer's Over" (August 2, 2013);
"Alvarado" (2015).

The track "Alvarado" has a sad history of creation. In June 2014, a terrible crime occurred on the street of the same name. The music of Christina Black is riddled with sadness and bitterness, even those who do not have basic knowledge of English can understand and feel the depth of feelings. So permeated with tragedy performer. In combination with the angelic instrument, which is the harp, an amazing creation was created. The dark shade, the same background, does not change the essence of the matter. According to Christina, sad situations are often an incentive to write new compositions. According to the girl, she is not familiar with any of the performers who, just like her, compose noir music and at the same time play the harp. At least throughout Los Angeles, there are definitely no such people, the singer claims.

Kristina Black took part in a grand concert organized by a musician named Kan Wakan. This event took place in December 2014. Also, the American singer Tien, Kadhja Bonet, Nia (Niia) were invited to participate in the concert - musicians performed in the style of jazz and thus opened the show. Christina Black played an important role in this magnificence. The orchestra is literally teamwork, each instrument is a piece of the puzzle, without which there will not be a complete picture.