Valentina

Music is what I do. I started singing around age fourteen on accident- I just wanted to beat Anna Watson out for the lead role in 'Bye Bye Birdie'... I've been writing songs on the piano since I was a fetus. The two skills naturally came together around three years ago, when I had finally gone through enough 'artist turmoil' to come up with lyrics that adequately captured my 'pain' at the time.

I believe music is an extension of emotion that we can not express any other way- and that there is nothing better than when you hear a specific lyric or chord progression that speaks to you. I want to dedicate my life into supplying this feeling to as many people as possible.

I am currently in the studio, recording my debut album.

*Because of the constant mockery I have had to endure for admiring the miracle of Celine Dion's voice, I have unfortunately buckled under peer pressure and am hesitantly giving the rest of the list to make up for it. I guess it doesnt matter that 12-year-old Valentina learned how to sing by listening to her albums... oh well; Elton John, John Lennon, Ben Folds, Billy Joel, Tenacious D, Styx, Smashing Pumpkins, Sarah McLachlan, Rufus Wainwright, Damien Rice, Coldplay, David Gray, QUEEN, Michael Jackson, Pearl Jam, Pat Benatar, Goo Goo Dolls, Kansas, Journey, U2, Johnny Cash, Danny Elfman, Jon Brion, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Eva Cassidy, Sting, ELVIS, Electric Light Orchestra, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen