Artist: Close-Up Christine And The Queens Are Readying To Dominate Terminal 5
Christine And The Queens is french pop galore that is readying to dominate U.S. music charts. Christine measures sweet-techno sounds with elements of thoughtful lyrics and other genres like, Hip Hop and soul. Her vocally smooth thrashing into you ears’ sonic waves are what is making this artist someone to watch, and one to conquer America’s pop scene.
This pop- export has one of the most intriguing and relatable origins you will find. While studying French Literature in London, Héloïse Letissier felt a growing sense of lost. Like most youth in college, for however routine life and studies become, something inside us begs for “more”. Letissier found her “more” in a drag bar called Madame Jojo’s in London. The drag queens became her friends, family, and fierce teachers in learning how to be yourself. It was their influence that inspired her, after graduation and returning home to France, to lock herself in her room and learn how to make music that embodied and expressed her spirit. That musical spirit she calls Christine, and, in homage, to drag queens that elevated her confidence, she goes fully by: Christine And The Queens.
Fast-forwards a couple of years and Christine And The Queens is fascinating the world picking up the front cover of Time and giving wonderful interviews to Rolling Stone and New York Times. This blossoming artist has heavily incorporated body movement into both her performance and music style. For Christine, music connects to the spirit, and manifests that connection through physicality. Her artful, interpretive dances are as important to capturing the essence of her music as her voice and lyrics. To quote her New York Times interview,
“When you dance, you own everything you have. You are really in your own body. You do it with your muscles and your bones and your weight and your height — it’s how to love yourself by moving.”
–Heloïse Letissier (Christine And The Queens)
It is no surprise that movement plays a huge role in Christine’s performance style as one of her biggest influence is Michael Jackson. Though she may not moonwalk, they share the same ideology of the body being used for soulful expression, which is what makes her magical to watch. Moreover, it makes her admirable. As Rolling Stone pointed out, Christine’s goal is to remind music lovers that music is an art form. Creative/ spiritual expression is its heartbeat, and for that is should be a unique different experience for every person that enjoys it and every artist that chooses to become a maker of it. While some may call this idea radical and innovative, it is actually simple and a truth that has always been apparent.
To many listeners and critics, Christine And The Queens defies genres and standards of music because she is a blatant reminder that music, in itself, is defying. Music and how it holds a person’s spirit should never be defined or confined. Hence, whether she uses a subtle Trip Hop beat, No Harm Done, or a quiet electronica, Tilted, she never fails to allow the audience to interpret her while she solely focuses on interpreting herself and how music will represent her. For More Information On Christine And The Queens Click Here. Moreover, GO SEE HER SHOW AT TERMINAL 5 On October 10!
