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Alina Simone is tagged as: singer-songwriter, female vocalists, indie, folk, acoustic

Alina Simone was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine and came to the United State as the daughter of political refugees after her father refused recruitment by the KGB and was blacklisted for ‘refusal to cooperate.’ Raised in the suburbs of Massachusetts, Alina moved to Austin, Texas after graduating from art school in Boston. It was there that she first started singing in public, in the doorway of an abandoned bar on Sixth Street. Simone quickly became known for her sparse instrumentation and raw and powerful delivery. After the release of her first EP, ‘Prettier in the Dark’ (2005), and her debut album, ‘Placelessness’ (2007, 54º 40’ or Fight!), Simone earned both national airplay and critical acclaim.
Simone’s 2008 release, ‘Everyone is Crying Out to Me, Beware,’ covered the music of Russian cult icon, Yanka Dyagileva, a Siberian punk-folk singer who drowned under mysterious circumstances in 1991. Simone was first introduced to Yanka’s music in 2001, when a couple of Russian street performers she met hanging out in Brighton Beach made her a mix tape. Her interest in Yanka dovetailed with a growing obsession with Siberia, where she has spent an extensive part of each year living and working since 2001. Sung entirely in Russian, ‘Everyone is Crying Out to ...
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Top 10 Alina Simone Songs
Beautiful Machine
Gunshots
Glitterati
Siberia
From Great Knowledge
Day Glow Avenue
My Sadness Is Luminous
Half My Kingdom
You Fade Away
In the House of Baba Yaga
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Top 10 Alina Simone Albums
Prettier In the Dark EP
Placelessness
Everyone Is Crying Out to Me, Beware
Raw Demos (2002 -2008)
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