LISTONIA was born in 1985 in the former Soviet Union country of Estonia. In the summer of 2008 she combined her real name Lisa, with the name of her home country Estonia and the psuedonym LISTONIA was born.
Growing up in Europe in a family full of musicians while studying & playing classical piano since the age of 6, helped to mold the talented artist we see today. Her first recordings were made in her teens, but even before then she had been writing her first vocal songs and ‘freestyling’ rap rhymes along with her television and radio.
Artistically Listonia brings a totally new and different approach to songwriting, considering her multi-cultural background from her Siberian, German and Russian roots and deep influences by hip hop and reggae, the Singer/Songwriter fearlessly explores new realms with her music.
Armed with an energetic personality and bubbling raw talent, Listonia has always pursued her love for Dancehall Reggae music. Through dance, she played a major role in introducing dancehall culture and stylings to Europe in Estonia, Finland and surrounding countries, even becoming a choreographer and hosting numerous workshops.
These efforts and more led her to being crowned “Estonian Dancehall Queen” in 2006. Shortly after that she began traveling in Europe, Canada and the Caribbean where she represented Europe in the highly touted ‘International Dancehall Queen Competition’ in Jamaica.
All this led to modeling experiences as the demand rose for Listonia. She has been booked for numerous photo shoots in Europe and the United States including but not limited to runway shows for ‘NYC Urban Fashion Week’ 2008 and ‘Caribbean Fashion Rocks’ 2008 & 2009.
After an extended stay in Jamaica absorbing the culture, LISTONIA then moved to NYC to record her first album and pursue her original love of making music. Co-writing credits include various reggae artist like ‘Barbee’ and ‘Mr.Lexx’. LISTONIA has also collaborated and worked with Hip Hop veteran Jeru The Damaja, Bruck Up, Kush, Nate Mars, Bananaz Bros, Soundboy Music along with others.
Her first single "Call Me Back" featuring Mr.Lexx (a.k.a. Lexxus) has steadily gained notoriety worldwide and of course locally in the NYC urban scene. Listonia's tunes are consistently generating more airplay as the word spreads of the multi-talented songbird’s prowess.
Constantly in the studio, and hard at work on making her first musical project a major one, LISTONIA is headed towards stardom, stay tuned.
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