Xenia Rubinos
Incorporating wide-ranging influences including but not limited to R&B, jazz, and hip-hop, Xenia Rubinos' eclectic style is guided by expressive vocal performances inspired in part by the likes of Nina Simone and Billie Holiday. Her debut album, 2013's Magic Trix, delivered an inventive indie rock patchwork of jazz, hip-hop, funk, Caribbean rhythms, and electronics. She continued to test boundaries on equally colorful, sociopolitically informed releases such as 2021's Una Rosa.
Raised in Hartford, Connecticut in a household with Puerto Rican and Cuban heritage, Rubinos sings in both English and Spanish. While her parents weren't musicians, they were music fans who encouraged her not only to sing but to start on the piano at the age of four. By eight, she was using a karaoke machine to record songs and make mixtapes. A scholarship to the Berklee College of Music resulted in formal voice study, but after an instructor compared an assigned horn arrangement she had written to Charles Mingus, she studied up on his recordings and was inspired to shift her focus to composition.
Following graduation and a move to Brooklyn, Rubinos sang and played keyboards on her debut album, which included performances by drummer (and former Berklee classmate) Marco Buccelli and bassist Adam Minkoff. The resulting Magic Trix was self-released in 2012. Ba Da Bing Records gave it an official label release a year later, and Rubinos went on to tour the U.S. and Europe as both as a headliner and in support of acts including Battles, Deerhoof, and CocoRosie. Produced again by Buccelli, and with Rubinos playing bass on some tracks in addition to keys, her equally ambitious follow-up, Black Terry Cat, arrived on Anti- in 2016.
While working on material for her third album, Rubinos recorded a Spanish-language cover of the Clash's "Should I Stay or Should I Go" for the 2018 documentary I'm Leaving Now (Ya Me Voy). It was released as a single by Anti- in 2019. The album, Una Rosa, followed on the label in 2021. Recorded again with Buccelli, it expanded electronic, rumba, and Spanish-language components while reflecting a more spontaneous approach to recording.
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Discografía
19 álbum(es) • Ordenado por Mejores ventas
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Levitating
Hip-Hop/Rap - Editado por Xenia Rubinos, Sammus & Olga Bell el 16 ene. 2018
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No Me Dejes Caer
Xenia Rubinos, Carolina Oliveros
Alternativa & Indie - Editado por Anti - Epitaph el 16 may. 2022
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Dia Libre en el Yanky
Alternativa & Indie - Editado por Anti - Epitaph el 18 jul. 2022
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Did My Best
Alternativa & Indie - Editado por Everlasting records el 10 mar. 2021
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Black Terry Cat
Alternativa & Indie - Editado por Everlasting Records el 3 jun. 2016
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Sacude
Alternativa & Indie - Editado por Everlasting records el 31 ago. 2021
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Diosa vs Bugeisha
R&B - Editado por Everlasting Records el 19 nov. 2019
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Magic Trix
Alternativa & Indie - Editado por Everlasting Records el 1 abr. 2013
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Una Rosa
Alternativa & Indie - Editado por Everlasting Records el 15 oct. 2021
Pitchfork: Best New Music16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Working All the Time
Alternativa & Indie - Editado por Everlasting records el 17 ago. 2021
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Dia Libre en el Yanky
Alternativa & Indie - Editado por Everlasting Records el 18 jul. 2022
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Madrugada
Alternativa & Indie - Editado por Everlasting Records el 18 abr. 2022
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Don't Put Me in Red
Alternativa & Indie - Editado por Everlasting records el 14 sept. 2021
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No Me Dejes Caer
Xenia Rubinos, Carolina Oliveros
Alternativa & Indie - Editado por Everlasting Records el 16 may. 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Should I Stay or Should I Go
Alternativa & Indie - Editado por Everlasting Records el 1 may. 2019
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Cogelo Suave
Alternativa & Indie - Editado por Everlasting records el 11 may. 2021
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Who Shot Ya?
Alternativa & Indie - Editado por Everlasting records el 26 oct. 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo