Krista


There are multiple artists that have recorded under the name Krista: 1. Krista is a one-off collaboration between Vex Ruffin and James Pants. They released the single Space Tom Test in 2013. 2. Krista is Brooklyn born singer, songwriter and musician. Her music is a combination of big beats, melodies, soaring vocals and street-savvy raps. It's an appropriate sound for Krista, who comes from the mashed-up streets of Sunset Park, Krista is herself 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 didn't want to be. I used it as a springboard to try and do everything right. Like her mashed-up upbringing, Krista's music is an amalgamation of sounds. She is as inspired by street-reared rappers, like Tupac and Biggie, as she is the escapist rock of Evanescence and Linkin Park, or the angelic voices of singers like Celine Dion or Sarah McLachlan[2]. Really. One moment her music pulsates with the rhymes and beats of a boastful, savvy, street-reared MC, 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. Krista's break came at the age of 16, when she met her curr...

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