Christine Vaindirlis born in London, mainly grew up in South Africa and then moved to Italy to pursue her life dream in music which began around the age of five. She commenced her studies at the “Conservatorio di Milano G.Verdi” in Italy where after she was awarded a scholarship by the Region of Lombardy to study opera under the supervision of professionals from the famous “Teatro della Scala di Milano”. She was then endowed “The Berklee College of Music Achievement Scholarship”, Boston in 2001 and graduated with a dual B.M. Cum Laude in Contemporary Writing & Production and Performance as a Voice principal. She also served as an ambassador of the college for the World Scholarship Tour Auditions in Boston. In 2003 she was awarded the Solo and Ensemble Award for Outstanding Musicianship by the prestigious institution.
Christine has had extensive experience working as a sideman and band leader in the many facets of the music industry over diverse stylistic approaches from Funk, Pop, R&B, Jazz/Fusion to World Music. She has had the privilege of working with a vast array of vocalists and musicians among which Telarc Recording Artist Hiromi, Layla Hathaway, Esperanza Spalding, Leni Stern, Bakithi Kumalo, Tony Cedras, Wunmi, Tower of Power Ensemble, Morris Goldberg, Daniel Sadownick, Gilad Ronen and Andre Juarez, performing in world renown venues and festivals such as the International Folk Music Festival in Boston, the Miriam Makeba Tribute Concert in New York 2008, Cape Town International Jazz Festival in South AFrica, the Musicians and Emerging Artists Festival in New York, the Cotton Club in Tokyo, Le Poisson Rouge and the legendary Zinc Bar in New York, the Piccolo Teatro di Milano and Auditorium di San Fedele in Milan Italy and the Epidauros Theatre in Greece just to name a few. She was also the founder of a twenty-three piece Boston based band, “SHIKISHA!”, a production promoting the traditional Music of South Africa.
In 2008, Christine's single "What about You" under deepaGrooves hit the House Music Charts. It and was later remixed by Clive Mckenzie, Keith Blackstone and Brian Burnside in the US, and Charles Webster in the UK to be released later on this year.
Christine, a true citizen of the world now currently resides in New York City will be releasing her new album "Dance Mama!", a fusion of Funk, Jazz and South African influenced vocal and horn arrangements featuring an “All-star” band of supporting artists like Hiromi Uehara (Telarc Recording Artist), Bakithi Kumalo, Tony Cedras, Morris Goldberg and Daniel Sadownick just to name a few, under Ubuntu World Music.
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