Christina Goh is a French singer, songwriter and poet.
Biography
The daughter of an Ivorian father and a mother from Martinique, Christina Goh was born in 1977 in Paris, France. She spent her life in Côte d'Ivoire and went to university in France but finally chose a musical career at the age of 23. Her first album was recorded in 2003, however, it is only in 2009, that the single "Réputation de peine" (Reputation of sorrow), released and sold in Martinique, was played on French-speaking radios of Japan, Greece, Andorra, Brazil and Quebec.
Christina Goh, named "La perle noire de l'afro-blues" (Afro-blues black pearl), puts together African, Caribbean and blues styles, but she remains at the same time faithful to French song texts.
In 2008, she created the Christina Goh Concept, which is an atypical trio: djembe, guitar, voice or piano, guitar, voice. The djembe is always the rhythmic point of the presentation. Its fusion with the electric guitar, whose blues accents translate the poetic characteristic of the concept, is atypical. In 2010, the musical album Christina Goh Concept was recorded in French West Indies and sold by the label ICE Consulting in Martinique. The ten-titled album on Plaza Mayor Company Ltd label made the world discover the concept on the web.
Christina Goh wrote two collections of poems. Le concept en poèmes (The concept in poems), her second collection, is what she named "a new experiment",Goh, Christina. "Le concept en poèmes" France. May 2010. p. 9. where she explains in poems, the ten universes of the ten songs of the album Christina Goh Concept.
In 2010, she was in concert in Avignon Festival Off, named "the greatest theater of the world" in France, invited by the Laurette Theater.
Awards 2015 : 14th Independent Music Awards Nominee - Eclectic EP category
Discography Tranquille (album) 2003 Métissée chocolat (single) 2007 Eveil (EP) 2008 3 Emotions (EP) 2009 Christina Goh Concept (album) 2010 N'oublie pas (single) 2012 Fusion (album) 2012 Invisible EP (EP) 2014 14 Melodies (Live at Le Petit Faucheux France) (album CD/DVD) 2015
Bibliography Le chant des coeurs () 2009 Le concept en poèmes ( ) 2010 Fort, utile et beau ( ) 2011 Du noir et blanc à la couleur ( ) 2013 14 Mélodies en confidences poétiques () 2015
See also
Music of France
References
External links Christina Goh official website Christina Goh official Myspace