Sonja Kristina Linwood
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| Birth name | Sonja Kristina Linwood |
| Born | April 14, 1949 |
| Origin | Brentwood, Essex, England |
| Genre(s) | acid folk, progressive rock |
| Occupation(s) | singer-songwriter |
| Years active | 1960s - present |
| Associated acts | Curved Air, Mask |
| Website | http://www.sonjakristina.com/ |
Sonja Kristina Linwood (born 14 April 1949, in Brentwood, Essex) is an English musician, usually known as Sonja Kristina, and most famous as vocalist for Curved Air.
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[edit] Career
She helped run and performed at the Troubadour Folk Club in the late 1960s. She also performed in the stage musical Hair and sang with the Strawbs.
Curved Air had a changing line-up over its nine albums (1970 - 1976 and 1990), and Sonja was the only member to take part in every line-up.
After Curved Air she returned to Hair for a second spell. Since then she has performed solo, including her involvement with the acid folk movement in London in the early 1990s, culminating in her critically acclaimed Songs from the Acid Folk in 1991, and recently in multi-media duo MASK, along with Marvin Ayres.
In 2008 she is taking part in a series of Curved Air reunion concerts.
[edit] Albums with Curved Air
- Airconditioning (1970)
- Second Album (1971)
- Phantasmagoria (1972)
- Air Cut (1973)
- Live (1975)
- Midnight Wire (1975)
- Airborne (1976)
- Lovechild (recorded 1973, released 1990)
- Live At The BBC (1995)
- Alive, 1990 (2000)
- Masters From The Vaults
[edit] Albums as Sonja Kristina
- Sonja Kristina (1980)
- Songs From The Acid Folk (1991) (with TY-LOR and friends)
- Harmonics Of Love (1995)
- Cri De Coeur (2003)
- Heavy Petal CD + DVD by MASK ft Sonja Kristina (2005)
[edit] Other Recordings
- Vampires Stole My Lunch Money Mick Farren (1978) - Sonja Kristina and The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde provided backing vocals on this album.[1]
- Sheep In Wolves' Clothing[1] Motorheadbangers fan club tribute CD (2008) - Sonja contributed an acoustic version of Motörhead's "I Don't Believe A Word."
