SPOTLIGHT
The last time Kristine W. and I talked, I asked her what a dream album for her would be and she said, “I’ve always wanted to do a jazz album but want to find the best musicians and material possible.” Fast forward four years and dreams do come true for the dance club darling who is only outranked by Madonna and Beyoncé in the span of 1990-2010 for having 15 number one hits on the Billboard Dance/ Club Play Songs chart. She also holds the world record for the most consecutive number one Club Hits by accomplishing nine in a row. The Rage Monthly spent an enjoyable amount of time talking about what she has titled as Straight Up With a Twist. “It’s kind of weird,” Kristine begins by saying, “It was such a long and arduous project. It’s weird that it’s here. I keep staring at the CD…just staring at it. It was so much work and took so long, it’s just like ‘wow’ you know?” Kristine, in addition to doing jazz-flavored renditions of several of her hit songs, added new songs that she penned to this
two-CD set collection. All the new material is top-notch yet one song called “Dream On” has special significance for the singer, songwriter and musician Kristine W. “It was one of those songs that I first started when I first came to Las Vegas. I was eighteen and far from home and all alone. I would go and write songs at University of Nevada Las Vegas. They had a piano there up in the rehearsal rooms. I was taking music classes, so that’s where I went. I would just write songs. I started that song and never finished it until this album. It was just weird…you know? My daughter Elizabeth is also laughing at the end. She has the most amazing laugh. It’s crazy. It’s very melodic, almost like she’s singing. I had to record it, so I tickled her in the studio. My kids… they sleep on the couch in the recording studio, they pretty much have lived in and out of recording studios. So, we just got her laugh on tape and it just fit so perfect at the end. With the flute player Eric Tewait as well, it was just one of those magical moments that you just capture.”
ALL JAZZED UP IN STRAIGHT UP WITH A TWIST by bill biss
A RAGE MONTHLY EXCLUSIVE
Kristine Photography by Idris and Tony 48 RAGE monthly | OCTOBER 2010
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