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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Discografia
19 álbum(ns) • Ordenado por Mais vendidos
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Levitating
Hip-Hop/Rap - Lançado por Xenia Rubinos, Sammus & Olga Bell em 16/01/2018
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No Me Dejes Caer
Xenia Rubinos, Carolina Oliveros
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Anti - Epitaph em 16/05/2022
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Dia Libre en el Yanky
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Anti - Epitaph em 18/07/2022
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Did My Best
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Everlasting records em 10/03/2021
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Black Terry Cat
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Everlasting Records em 03/06/2016
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Sacude
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Everlasting records em 31/08/2021
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Diosa vs Bugeisha
R&B - Lançado por Everlasting Records em 19/11/2019
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Magic Trix
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Everlasting Records em 01/04/2013
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Una Rosa
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Everlasting Records em 15/10/2021
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Working All the Time
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Everlasting records em 17/08/2021
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Dia Libre en el Yanky
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Everlasting Records em 18/07/2022
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Madrugada
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Everlasting Records em 18/04/2022
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Don't Put Me in Red
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Everlasting records em 14/09/2021
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No Me Dejes Caer
Xenia Rubinos, Carolina Oliveros
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Everlasting Records em 16/05/2022
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Should I Stay or Should I Go
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Everlasting Records em 01/05/2019
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Cogelo Suave
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Everlasting records em 11/05/2021
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Who Shot Ya?
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Everlasting records em 26/10/2020
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