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Lindsey Kate Cristofani is a study in contradictions: German
philosophy and Los Angeles glamour; serious poetry and serious
booty-shaking; young body and an old soul. She goes equally for
French New Wave cinema as for crowd-pleasers like Moulin Rouge: "I
make music for the children of the revolution," she says.
Born in Baltimore, MD and raised in stuffy, privileged Los Gatos,
CA by two classical musicians, Lindsey Kate grew up immersed in music.
"I had two models of musicians in my two parents, " she says. "One
gave it up under pressure from her parents, terrified of the uncertain
existence of a musician. The other devoted his whole life to the
music he loved, earning little money and a whole lot of grace."
Still, being raised in a snobby, middle class town had its dangers:
"I was so hyper, not to mention accident-prone, I was bouncing off
everything and everyone. They wanted to medicate me and subdue me.
But where they didn’t succeed my peers did--being a cool girl in high
school almost destroyed my soul. I had to devote myself to becoming a
nerd to recover." Become a nerd she did, developing a predilection
for philosophers like Nietzsche and Aristotle, reading through great
literature, learning French, writing short stories, painting, and all
the while working towards her BA in Comparative Literature at the
University of California, Berkeley.Still, not many nerds possess ravishing looks, dynamic fashion
sense, and the ability to rock a stage all night long. And according
to Lindsey Kate, her rock n’ roll destiny was decided on one
particularly epic Las Vegas weekend: "Like Alice, I nibbled on the
right side of the mushroom, grew larger and stood in front of that
great golden lion in front of the MGM grand, and he gave me my orders:
go overground." An unlikely mixture of brains and booze, sex and
symphonies, poetry and pomp, Lindsey Kate describes her life as
"equally divided between great sex and great texts.At one point Lindsey Kate thought of naming her project
"Cristofani," given that her collaborators have always been Anthony
and Louis Cristofani, her husband and brother-in-law. Often asked
what it’s like to be in a committed relationship in the rock world,
Lindsey responds: "Well, it’s nothing new. I’ve been committed my
whole life. Committed to horses, committed to music, committed to
revolution...and I’ll probably wind up committed to an institution."
It’s clear from her music and stage show that she’s committed to
gorgeous pop melodies, poetry, and stage fearlessness . The result is
surprising to most everyone. "People hear my sing-a-long lovefests
and are surprised to find the lyrics aren’t cliched and untrained.
Others read my lyrics and are surprised that they’re not set to dark,
minor-chord laden, intricate music. I like to go pop and profound at
the same time." "My problem with most music is that writers think
they can get away with awkward rhythms by singing through them or over
them, but the rhythm is as much in the word as in the bass and drums.
That’s why rappers such as Eminem and Tupac are more musical to me
than these singer-songwriters who went to Berklee and forgot to study
poetry, too. I’m only interested in people who take words seriously,
don’t toss off easy rhymes and easy feelings: Leonard Cohen, Bono,
Sophie B. Hawkins, Joni Mitchell, Tom Waits. But I’m just as
interested in Salman Rushdie or Charles Bukowski."That’s not to imply Lindsey Kate Cristofani likes to sit still on
a stage and croon along somberly to her poetry. Energetic,
confrontational, improvisational (she often makes up lyrics in the
middle of her songs, about audience members or the city), Lindsey Kate
is not the kind of singer-songwriter whose stage songs don’t live up
to the album. "Sure, the hit single makes the money, but the LIVE
SONG makes the magic in people’s lives, including mine. If the day
after the concert their routine doesn’t change a bit, I failed."
Given how difficult it is to define Lindsey Kate, it might be
best to suggest that "Lindsey Kate Cristofani" is what the next
generation will say when asked to name their influences. Because her
type hasn’t quite been invented yet.
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