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Cristina is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Peggy Lee, The Beatles and Paolo Zavallone. Those roots explain a lot about how Cristina arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Kid Creole & The Coconuts, Grace Jones, Strawberry Switchblade, Au Pairs and Garçons, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into That! Feels Good!, Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, Lady Gaga and Lana Del Rey, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 15 connections around Cristina, reaching back through Peggy Lee and forward to That! Feels Good!. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Cristina Monet Zilkha, known during her recording career simply as Cristina, was an American singer and writer, best known for her no wave recordings made for ZE Records in the late 1970s and early 1980s in New York City. Matthew Perpetua wrote that she "was a pioneer in blending the artsiness and attitude of punk with the joyful energy of disco and pop.... [which] helped pave the way for the massive successes of her contemporaries, like Madonna and Cyndi Lauper, and anticipated the rise of confrontational but danceable alt-pop acts..." While Andrew Unterberger said her Disco Clone recording was "campy, self-aware, and infectious."
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Cristina connections
Cristina grew out of Peggy Lee, The Beatles and Paolo Zavallone, shares an orbit with Kid Creole & The Coconuts, Grace Jones, Strawberry Switchblade and Au Pairs, went on to shape That! Feels Good!, Madonna, Cyndi Lauper and Lady Gaga. 15 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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