Xenia Rubinos

Xenia Rubinos
Xenia Rubinos performing at The Haunt in Ithaca, NY, 2017
Background information
Birth name Xenia Rubinos
Born (1985-07-24) July 24, 1985
Origin Brooklyn, New York,
United States
Genres Funk-rock, R&B, Jazz, Latin
Occupation(s) Songwriter, record producer
Years active 2013–present
Labels ANTI-
Associated acts Sammus, Marco Buccelli, Olga Bell
Website www.xeniarubinos.com

Xenia Rubinos (born July 24, 1985), is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

Background and early life

Xenia Rubinos was born in Hartford, CT to a Puerto Rican mother and a Cuban father.[1] She studied Jazz composition at the Berklee College of Music.[2] She spent most of her 20s acting as the primary care giver for her father as he dealt with a degenerative illness, which inspired her song Black Stars.[3]

Music

Her early music influences include composers like Prokofiev and Ravel,[4] as Xenia’s father was a huge classical and opera fan.[3] Salsa and Rumba music from Fania Records was also popular in her house growing up.[4] Later she became enthralled with hip-hop and R&B and Miles Davis, which led her to study jazz at the Berklee College of Music.

She is inspired by her Latinx heritage and Santeria practices.[5] She is also inspired by the Black Lives Matters movement [3] but does not see her music as protest music, which is too narrow of view. The topics of her songs include her experience as a woman of color which should start a conversation and not restrict how people view her music.[1]

Xenia’s music is not easily categorized as she crosses many genres in both her lyrics and her sound, making categorization of her music difficult.[6][7][1][5]

Discography

  • 2013 - Magic Trix (EP, self-released)
  • 2016 - Black Terry Cat (NuBlack Music Group)

References

  1. 1 2 3 Snapes, Laura (October 24, 2016). "Xenia Rubinos: 'I'm saying things about being a brown girl in America'". The Guardian.
  2. ↑ "Articulate: Xenia Rubinos". PBS.
  3. 1 2 3 "In 'Black Stars,' Xenia Rubinos Memorializes Many Lives In One". NPR. July 3, 2016.
  4. 1 2 Raygoza, Isabela (May 31, 2016). "Unboxed: Genre-Hopping with Xenia Rubinos". The Village Voice.
  5. 1 2 Martin, Rachel (April 23, 2013). "Xenia Rubinos: Adventures in Syncopation". NPR.
  6. ↑ Grier, Chaka (July 13, 2016). "Album Review Black Terry Cat". Now Toronto.
  7. ↑ Snapes, Laura (May 24, 2013). "Magic Trix Review". Pitchfork.
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