Cristina Orbe

IF YOU WANNA SEND A COMMENT MY WAY COOL. JUST DON'T THANK ME FOR THE ADD, I WILL DELETE IT UNLESS IT'S SOMEHOW CUTE. I HATE THAT FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON (ITS ME, NOT YOU) AND DON'T MAKE IT A BIG ADVERTISEMENT FOR YOURSELF. I DON'T WATCH TV AND I HATE ADS(STILL ME) ITS ALL LOVE. I JUST WANNA KEEP IT REAL WITHOUT HURTING ANYONES FEELINGS.Born in New York City, Cristina's parents moved to Scranton, Pennsylvania when she was 9 months old. They lived an area called Clarks Green and her and her sisters went to Our Lady of Peace catholic school. It was a fair mix of traumatizing and a good education. This part of Pennsylvania was bound to offer challenges since most of the people who lived in Clarks Green were paying out the yanger to live with only white people. Enter black/brown/yellow kids and let the games begin. Racism was sometimes overt, other times covert ......Cristina and her sisters were quickly shown the way the world worked and in the midst Cristina decided to withdraw from making friends and instead indulged in a dream world she enjoyed since very young. She played basketball and did the St Gregories Youth Group but for the most part kept to herself. This continued with the onset of puberty and moves to New Jersey and Georgia.She maintained a C/B average in school till she had a stark awakening junior year of High School that she didn't want to live with her parents forever. For the rest of her time in school she got straight A's and got accepted to college in NJ. In college she made her first friends and had a blast. Her grades were rocky but she contained latent untapped genius that she used to play pranks on fellow students and head a school Rape Crisis Hotline. She became a rave head for the love of the music and underground culture. After a freakish interaction with a professor she had a realization that her school was giving her a bad education so she transfered to a school in NYC. There she got a taste of liberated thought and was appreciated by her professors for her ideas. She tasted something that would forever adjust her palette.AHHHh but where is the music you ask.....well its coming. In her last semester, Cristina had a flash of inspiration that she should move to Seattle and go to massage school. In the year 2000 she did just that. She made rules for her Seattle experience. No TV. Live Alone. Teach Self to Play Guitar. Soon Cristina found a creative outlet for her life that surpassed any expression she had till that point. She could sing. Write songs. Write poetry. And touch the hearts of those who listened. She could explain the psycho-social phenomena she interpreted daily in a vulnerable and universal context. She could touch hundreds of people at a time and not just one per hour on the Massage table. Quickly her life vision readjusted itself and she willfully joined the 1 million plus singer/songwriters in the world. She joined up with Dan Moore to create Forgotten SOL. She has had a fairly dense couple of creative years. In that time, she has penned 30+ performance pieces and done some studio work. In 2003 she recorded 3 albums, "SWAY", "Contradiction" and "The Forgotten SOL EP" and has plans in 2007 to record another solo album. She occasionally appears at the Seattle Slam Poetry Competitions and hosted an OPEN MIC at the Seamonster Lounge on Mondays for 2 years. Currently her pieces are super damn personal and less political and that isn't because of reocrd label pressure. Some times there is ebb and other times flow.This band bio is subject to change at any moment.
Here is a Video with Me and Common Market at Bumbershoot: