Maria Callas, Barbra Streisand, Kate Bush, Bryan Adams, Annie Lennox, Michel Legrand, Sarah McLachlan.... to name but a few! From the younger generation of artists, I absolutely love John Mayer, Raul Midón, Keri Noble... more on the way, I am sure!
Born in Soviet Georgia and raised in Moscow, Russia, songwriter and artist Tinatin Japaridze is on her way to reaching the top heights of two careers: as a writer and a musician.
Heralded by Billboard Magazine as one of the "fresh faces to keep an eye out for in 2008," she became a finalist in the worldwide John Lennon Song Contest and her song “Wild” was hailed as a 2007 year-end Billboard Top 10 Critics’ Pick.
She has written in Russian for the leading Russian Newspaper in America, in English for the United Nations (where she is the United Nations Radio Correspondent) and in Georgia she has both written and been written about - including a story about her in Cosmopolitan – for which Cambridge Jones, UK’s top photographer took the portraits.
As a music artist, 24-year-old Tinatin is on the verge of catapulting into mainstream success with a current dance/club hit in the UK, “Thinking of Someone Else”, which debuted at number 13 in UK’s Music Week, and she is now adding final touches to her debut album with a number of the industry's top producers and scribes on both sides of the Atlantic.
Her first single, "We the Peoples," based on the United Nations charter, a bureaucratic post-war document explaining the purpose of the UN, was recently reviewed by Billboard senior correspondent Chuck Taylor, who called it "a penultimate, contemporary anthem honouring the mission of the United Nations, perhaps more relevant than ever, given the flux of worldwide politics… a resonant affirmation that politics actually have potential to unite."
She co-wrote Eurovision Song Contest’s Icelandic Entry for 2009, “Is It True”, with Christopher Neil and Oskar Pall Sveinsson. The song won the national finals by staggering 44% and will be competing with 42 European entries in the international finals to be held in Russia in May ’09.
In addition, apart from her weekly UN radio show on Progressive Radio Network, “United Nations Uncovered”, Tinatin’s self-produced brand new show on Break Thru Radio www.breakthruradio.com “Russkiy in the Mix” features some of the hottest post-USSR hits from the other side of the Iron Curtain, along with interviews and exclusive live performances from the modern-day New Russia’s biggest alternative bands and top dance outfits. Russkiy in the Mix is currently the only English-language source of fresh Russian music on totally American radio, where Tinatin brings her listeners a monthly dose of what’s fresh and “happening” in Moscow, St. Petersburg and beyond…
Described by Christopher Neil—the creative force behind Celine Dion, Mike & the Mechanics and Sheena Easton—as an artist with an "outstanding voice for people who want to make great music," Tinatin stands as a young, charismatic artist with the talent and moxie to forge one of the choice debut albums of the year.
Hugs Tina, it's been a long time since we last wrote to each other. Just wanted to stop on by and say hi. My hubby (PeteBraven, owner of PheonixRadioNet) absolutely adores you. In fact he drools everytime he hears your voice..LOL Hugs n loves to you Kate xxxx
hey Tina! Beautiful voice(well I knew that already) Greetings from Reykjavík Iceland, where the sun never goes down. B.SIG and yours truly Orange Peel Raven 50/50
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Hugs Tina, it's been a long time since we last wrote to each other.
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