I talk too much. I drink too much. I hate small talk. I love thunderstorms. I love my family. My mother is my idol; my father is my hero. Rachmoninoff is the reason I started playing piano. The day I heard Portishead I started singing. The day I heard Radiohead I wrote my first song. I picked up a guitar out of boredom one day. I've never trusted a man that didn't drink. I'm always late. My apartment smells of rich mahogany, I have many leatherbound books. I will probably delete your stupid fucking banner, band photo, slutty picture or whatever bullshit you try to to post on my page. This is for my music, not yours. I don't put shit on your page, leave mine the fuck alone.
Orlando Weekly
5/17/2007
By Jason Ferguson and Bao Le-Huu
"Christina Wagner Through a semi-regular series of arresting performances in town, Wagner has gradually amassed more of a draw than in her hometown of Jacksonville. Pairing a whiskeyed sensibility with a smoky voice that echoes some of the female jazz greats, this songbird pushes her acoustic act far beyond coffeehouse banality and into Spanish and country music territory. Look for her to prove once again that she owns the singer/songwriter category. (9 p.m. at Vintage)"
5/24/2007
By Bao Lee-Huu
"In this year’s bad column is talented Jacksonville chanteuse Christina Wagner, not because her performance was flawed but because this was by far the worst setting for her yet. It wasn’t the logistics of Vintage as a venue but rather the gathering of unbelievably inconsiderate bar people whose elevated talking volume only managed to trumpet their patently low IQ. Props to her for actually saying, “Shut the fuck up.” Despite such indignities, not to mention sharing the bill with the kind of bed-wetters that have been tarnishing acoustic music for as long as rubber sheets have been around, it was obvious there was a heightened degree of support for and interest in her by the number of serious listeners who showed up just before she went on."
Best of Orlando 2007
7/19/2007
Best migrant worker
Christina Wagner ?www.myspace.com/christinawagner
"Christina Wagner’s combination of soft-spoken humility, infinite friendliness and unabashed, vocal disdain for assholes is what makes her an intriguing personality. What’s more notable is that, as an acoustic musician, she produces completely unique and genuinely heartfelt music in a milieu usually reserved for the predictable. Though she lives in Jacksonville, she plays here enough that we pretend she’s ours."
Ink 19 Music Magazine
3/7/2007
by Jen Cray
"As one half of dreamy indie-pop duo Azure Ray, Maria Taylor caught the attention of everyone from the average coffee shop worker to Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst. Now on the road supporting her second solo effort (Lynn Teeter Flower), the pretty and petite songwriter has a built-in audience who came out in strong numbers for a mid-week show at The Social. Not even viral infections and flu season could stop Taylor and her band from delivering the goods to the Orlando hopefuls.
Walking into the venue halfway through Jacksonville vocalist Christina Wagner's opening set was surreal. How often have you walked into a bar and found the whole place silent and watching, with rapt attention, an unknown musician playing an acoustic guitar and singing softly? I had to whisper to the bartender to order my Amstel Light, and even that felt like an interruption. Wagner had a luscious voice that complemented her dreamy pop cover of Nancy Sinatra's "Bang Bang," but when she attempted to reach Mariah Carey notes on her final tune, her pretty vocal chords sounded strained. No one seemed to mind though, and when she was thanking the crowd and packing away her guitar the audience was asking for more and then flooding her with compliments when she exited the stage."
EU Magazine
2/15/07
By Jon Bosworth
"Christina Wagner is a very attractive woman. When you first meet her, it's her wit, style, and radiant smile that draw you in, but once you've heard her sing, you're hers forever. Christina and I used to work together at Rock & Roll Pizza and she was great at concocting strange and bizarre drinks after hours for the rest of the staff and myself, but I never learned to fully appreciate her songwriting ability until she performed at the Conmoto Trench Festival last year.
The Burrito Gallery stage was floundering between "experimental" bands that were less music-oriented and more absurdist in nature. People were leaving as fast as they arrived and it seemed as though the weirdos at the beginning were going to scare off any potential patrons to the BG stage for most of the day. Then Christina Wagner swept in, followed by an enormous family. That gave me a sense of relief, but then when she played, everything with the festival was suddenly alright.
Her voice is strong and smooth, not like the passive aggressive acoustic performers that usually crawl up on that lonely stool with an acoustic guitar and a mic. Whereas many female singer/songwriters rely on a voice that breaks intentionally, like Edie Brickell, or do the whole hippie-chick thing, Christina if easy-going and funny as she adjusts her microphone, and then instantly her music wraps around you and her sultry voice is earnest and deeply intoned.
From the faint hint of her Spanish heritage in the way she strums her guitar to the rock edge to her insightful choruses, Christina is easily one of the best solo performers in the region, which is why she plays frequently in Orlando and Tampa, as well as Jacksonville. I called her up to ask her a few questions about being Christina Wagner."
