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Born in New Jersey, and moving to South Florida with her retiring parents at the age of 13, Kristin Margaret Cappiello is a mystifying and unique singer. She is in control of an elusive quality that makes everyone want to know more. The eighth out of nine children of Irish and Italian parents who habitually woke the family up to Broadway show tunes, vintage opera, and 60's folk music.It was no surprise that Kristin grew a love for song. As a catholic school girl she was an avid participant of her church choir, relentlessly sharing her favorite songs such as Let There Be Peace on Earth, and competing in state wide solo vocal competitions, always returning with a hand full of superior metals. She started writing song in her teens when her mother bought her an acoustic guitar for Christmas with hopes to hear her daughter sing Joan Biaz, John Denver and Paul Simon covers. Totally self-taught, her style grew over time, allowing her to share with her mother, and many others, Diamonds and Rust as well as her own originals. She was introduced to Joni Mitchell when a friend of the family heard her sing and immediately took Kristin to the mall and bought her Mitchells classic Blue. An obsession to Michael Stipe led Kristin to 10,000 Maniacs and it wasnt long before she was wailing out Dust Bowl, Conversations and a slew of originals in local Coffee houses and open mikes. After high school, in and out of the garage band scene, she frivolously pursued her music, having dipped her toes in the dark waters of music-business only to turn down a record contract for credible reason. The bar and restaurant gigs wore her down and eventually a once passionate thing became a clouded and distorted life style and soon enough music and songwriting was only made alone in a small place she referred to as her music room. With the exception of benefit concerts and demo recordings with other local talents, Kristin was on a six year hiatus, shying away from reforming her music until 2005. While making an intrepid inventory of herself, she became aware that singing/songwriting is what she was supposed to do. This was a gift that would be a shame to be exhausted. With the help of inspirational friends such as Courtney Yates and Dennis Kain, Kristin now has a solo project in the works as well as her side project collaboration Consider the Violet, which she regularly gigs locally with her cellist, violinist comrade Courtney. Kristin is in a much brighter place now, after dusting off the guitar collections and unfinished notebooks, she is back in touch with her spiritual outlet, and hopes to inspire other relinquished artists to do the same |
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