Kristina Si

Kristina Elkhanovna Sarkisyan (born March 9, 1991, Tula, now Russia), better known as Kristina Si, is a Russian singer. She became most widely known after signing a contract with the Black Star record label in 2013, with which she ended her collaboration in 2018. Kristina was born into a family of circus performers. Until the age of 6, she moved from city to city with her parents, lived in a traveling circus, owned by her parents. At the age of 6, Sargsyan began studying at a music school. For three years she played the piano, after which she switched to pop-jazz vocals. She moved to live in Moscow in 2008 and entered the Institute of Contemporary Art at the department of pop-jazz singing. In 2010, she met the composer Pavel Murashov, who later became the author of her first composition called "I'm Flying Away". In the summer of 2011, Kristina Sargsyan released a new single, as well as a video for the song "I Begin to Forget". The collaboration between Black Star and Kristina Si began in 2011 with the recording of a joint track by the singer and label artist -Music Hayk. In early 2013, she released the single "Winter". In March of the same year, she became an artist of the label and the only girl at that time on Black Star. The first work on the label Black Star Inc. became the single "Well, well, yes." The editors of the portal Rap.ru placed in tenth place in the list of "50 Best Songs of 2013" and the video for this song in fifth place in the list of "Clips of the Year. Russian version" In June 2015, she was on the jury of A-One 's "Just Dance" dance competition. In November 2016, the singer was banned from entering Ukraine for three years. According to TASS with reference to the press service of the State Border Service of Ukraine, this is due to her speech in the Crimea, which took place in the summer of that year. On November 28, 2016, Kristina Si released her debut album titled Light in the Dark. The album included 15 songs, including collaborations with Black Star label artist Scrooge and rapper Dima No One. 2017 was a very eventful and difficult year for the singer, in March, as part of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Moscow, another show took place, one of the stars of which was Kristina Si, in the summer of the same year, Kristina Si became a member of the star jury of the casting "Hit on TV for love" on the channel "S.T.S. Love". Thanks to a large number of fans among teenagers, Kristina won in the category "Favorite Singer" in the children's award from the TV channel "STS" - "High Five" In November 2017, Kristina Si gave an exclusive interview for Fashion People, where she talked about working with Black Star and about the ideal man, and Kristina also got on the cover of the magazine. At the end of 2017, Kristina was in the top 100 most popular rap artists according to the MTV Russia channel and took 15th place, the video for the song "You Won't Hurt" was in the top 50 best clips of the year according to TV channel " Music of the First " and took 25th place and according to the media, Kristina is one of the most sought-after and expensive artists of the Black Star production center. In March 2018, Black Star Inc. announced the termination of the contract with Kris, they announced this on their Instagram page . The rights to the pseudonym remained with the label, while the singer herself said that she did not intend to leave the stage and would continue her career. In April 2018, she launches his own clothing line.