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Her first love was Russian and Classical Dances . After exploring the world of Opera (where she felt a little restricted as a « Soprano Colorature »),she created a Russian Dances & Songs Company of Ballets along with her today..s companion and also performed Russian & Gypsies songs. From all these years of World Tours, she has kept a powerful vocal technique and a great corporal expression on stage.
She settles in the USA and keeps on touring in High schools, Universities, Jails and Veterans Home and finally chooses Texas. Nina goes on tour across the USA where she became one with the landscapes and people she met. She appears in some Charity Concerts for the FARM AID, already concerned by Globalisation...
The Tour brings her to New Orleans where she finds a new passion : BLUES..
Finally not so far from the Gypsy songs where you can also express pain, love and joy..Nina understands that very quickly.. she dives into her memory and gets loose with her voice like a Janis Joplin to whom she is often compared...
She meets DAN AKROYD, also great Blues lover, who push her to go further on into that music of Soul and Heart.
NINA sings more and more, BETTE MIDLER, CHUCK BERRY or ERIC BURDON among others ask her to play as a supporting act as they appreciate the true « Rock Energy » and her feeling on stage.
NINA learns a lot with those monsters, and feeling ready, she goes back to France to create her own Band.
The MIDNIGHT WOLF BAND was born and composed of musicians corresponding to her : generous, spontaneous and truthful.. her wolves ! ! Like the Silver Bullet Band of Bob Seger, NINA shares and communicates her energy and her last CD « NINA LIVE .. and ALIVE IN PARIS » is the living proof. (distribution by CRISTAL RECORDS & XIII bis)
Her new collaboration with Neal Black and Lucky Peterson in her new album « From Huntsville to Jordan » prove that Nina is not tired to travel in the World of Blues and Texas Rock.
In this more mature CD Nina express herself on subject such as Executions in Huntsville, mistreatment of our planet or wars......
NINA VAN HORN is a singer definitely watching the world she lives in, she likes also to compose her songs et to tell us stories of simple people met one day in Louisiana or somewhere else...
She likes her Blues with moments more Jazz or Rock but always with the same joy to share it with her « wolves » and the public in a very communicative way !
Her voice reminds Janis Joplin or Bette Middler, her energy on stage a little of Tina Turner but her sincerity and enthusiasm wherever she goes are obvious :
To share her pleasure with her public !
Great pictures from BLUESPIXEL in Verviers at the SPIRIT OF 66 - March 2008 and Bierbeek Blues Festival Belgium - april 2008
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NINA ALSO RUN HER OWN RADIO SHOW NAMED /
LISTEN ON W3BLUESRADIO.FR
Wednesday/mercredi : 9.00pm/21h French Time
Thursday/jeudi : 3.00am & 11.00am
Friday/vendredi : 3.00pm/15h
Sunday/dimanche : 3.00 pm/15h
Her radio show every 15 days on the net is about the FEMALE BLUES SINGERS. Nina tells their amazing stories during one hour show. "I really discover those first female blues singers : their were talking about diseases, alcoholism , lesbianism or making fun of themself and watching the hard world in which they were born". Nina is preparing a cd on those women like, Rosetta Tharpe, Memphis Minnie, Alberta Hunter.... and chose to do some acoustics versions of their more significative songs and to pay them the great tribute they diserve.
She is also writing a book on their incredeible life and stuggle ! .
1st Anniversary of W3Bluesradio at One Way
Pictures from Alain Chassaing
DISCOGRAPHY /
NEW CD/DVD "From Huntsville to Jordan" 2006
Cristal Records/Harmonia Mundi
CD "Live at Chesterfield Cafe Paris" 2004
Cristal Records/XIIIbis
DVD "Live at the House of Live" Paris, 2004
Cristal Records/XIIIbis
CD "The Planet" 1998,
Papa Music, Spain
CD "The Planet" 1998,
Wolf Productions France