Always true to the concept of contemporary fusion, Kristin Center is one of the first trained concert pianists to connect two clashing musical genres."What better way to rejuvenate classical music than to actually reintroduce it in a new light... in a most unexpected sound. Classical music and popular music are currently completely placed on two different sides of the spectrum. My goal is to make the audience see that these two genres don't need to be enemies, when, in fact, they could be having a symbiotic relationship." heh. if done properly... 
Kristin began writing at a very young age and always found herself placing lyrics with complicated melodies and harmonies. "I loved and studied piano, just like many kids, but I didn't grow up around musicians (even though they strongly supported music), I grew up around real people that found enjoyment in simplicity and passion in any style. I checked out African spiritual tapes from the library when I was a teen, but I also listened to Aguilera, Rachmaninoff, Jose Merce and Metallica. None of these genres seemed any less of art to me because I never heard them any differently or in comparison to one another. There was a simple chord structure that could have been used and was used in all three of these forms of music, it was just embellished and elaborated upon differently. The roots are and were always the same."

"I'd like to think that my music is raw, open and real. I speak from the heart every time I sit at a piano, every time I sing at a microphone, and every time I speak to an audience. This is my definition of an artist-entertainer. If I can't make every person in the room feel that and believe that, I have failed."



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