CHRISTINE COLLISTER

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A performer who has stood the hard test of 20 years on the circuit, Christine offers a unique blend of soul, blues, pop, jazz, country and folk, and today she remains as powerful, subtle and effortless as ever. Her latest CD, Love, is the beautiful and amazing result of a special project with Rega Research Ltd, a British hi-fi manufacturer of high standing.

Christine's live performances have always been wonderfully magical experiences; here in this new special collaboration with Rega, her voice is captured whole and unadulterated, as close to those live performances as she’s ever been recorded – a real joy!

"So much soul you think she’d been signed by Motown." - Q

Her seven previous solo albums have seen her convincingly interpret Smoky Robinson, Nick Drake, Robert Wyatt, Tom Waits, Paul Simon, U2 and Lal Waterson, amongst many others, whilst with every year her own self penned or co-written compositions have developed a distinctive quality - one which connects on a very personal level.

"Christine Collister can sing the birds down off the trees and send them back with a tiny flick of her vocal chords." - Mojo.

Christine Collister grew up on the Isle of Man. Her professional recording career began in the mid 1980s but she first came to national attention singing the 1987 theme for the BBC Television series The Life and Loves Of A She Devil. Following a fruitful association with The Richard Thompson Band, Christine enjoyed a period of critical and commercial success in a seven year partnership with Clive Gregson. She also toured and recorded with the female super group Daphne's Flight.

"A voice personally delivered by God." - The Times.

Over the course of her career Christine has become a familiar name on the UK live scene and at all major festivals from Glastonbury to Winnipeg to Cambridge. With a gravity defying voice, assured and impressive live performances and great personal charm she is a phenomenal live act.

"One of the world's finest." - Q.
"Christine Collister has a killer voice. As full as Dusty Springfield or as blue as Alison Moyet." - Folk Roots.

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