Krista Tour Dates and Upcoming Concerts

One of the great anchors of youth is freedom, to live a life without boundaries or borders, without subscribing to provincial boxes of what should and shouldn’t be. It is what the jaded yearn for, what the aged remember with fierce nostalgia. That is not to say that freedom is not a life without friction, but rather it is the opportunity of pursuing one’s convictions without restraints. And this is the foundation for KRISTA, a new, 21-year old singer, songwriter and musician whose artistry is built on the rich, layered dichotomy between struggle and expression. She has a life of experiences that belies her age, and which she draws upon to form her singular identity as a vibrant, emerging artist. What she has felt in her life, you will feel in her music, and like her background, Krista’s music brazenly defies categorization: a combination of soaring vocals, big beats, beautiful melodies, and street-savvy raps. It’s an appropriate sound for Krista, who comes from the mashed-up streets of Brooklyn, New York – Sunset Park, to be exact – where a stroll down the neighborhood streets is a kaleidoscopic merging of colors, cultures and flavors. Krista is herself a mash-up, 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.” Reflecting the diversity of her upbringing, Krista’s music is an amalgamation of sounds. She is as inspired by the boisterous attitudes of early female MCs (Salt-n-Pepa, Queen Latifa), as she is the escapist rock of Evanescence and Linkin Park, or the angelic voice of Sarah McLachlan. Really. One moment her music pulsates with the rhymes and beats of a boastful, savvy, street-reared MC (much like the storytelling of early Tupac), 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 19, when she met her current producer, musical mentor, and music industry veteran, Camus. Realizing that she was more than just a short-term talent, Camus would take Krista under his wing, making her the hallmark signing of his Vel Records, and working for two years to help develop her sound. “My interests, musically, are extremely eclectic, and I feel I can do anything (stylistically),” says Krista. “So we would just go to the studio and experiment, find a chemistry, just try things out until I felt comfortable with myself. It was a real organic process. And his support really gave me the confidence to just go in the studio and show who I was.” Listen to "Taking Back Brooklyn" on Spotify, Pandora, Amazon & iTunes. New music coming 2018!