BIOGRAPHY
Christina Goh
The daughter of an Ivorian father and a mother from Martinique, Christina was born in Paris, France.
However, she spent her life in a west African country, Ivory Coast.
After graduating in psychology and journalism in a French university and a private graduate school,
she went back to Ivory Coast to embrace a musical career.
However, it will be from Martinique, her mother’s land, where she settles in 2004,
which welcomes her during the war in Ivory Coast, that she becomes known internationally with her EP Eveil, in 2008.
The main title, Reputation de peine (Reputation of sorrow), will allow her to appear on francophone radios in
Brazil, Greece, Japan, Canada and the United States.
The impact of the texts of this singer, a poetess who has published Le chant des coeurs (Songs From the Hearts),
will thrill the Francophile English Speaking World who will call her “The French Star of Tomorrow”.
The words of her songs reflect a rich experience enhanced by her Creole blues.
Christina Goh is asserting herself as a live concert singer with a concept which is her specificity:
a trio (guitar, djembe, voice).
Her show enhances the use of the djembe, basic rhythmical instrument of her compositions which are very modern though.
In 2009, a mini-tour in Paris, at the Laurette Theatre, which federates small stages in France and Marseille,
allows a metropolitan public to discover the “Afro-Blues Black Pearl”.
She is selected the same year by one of the major artist agency in the Caribbean.
In 2010, Christina Goh produces an album, Christina Goh Concept, on independent I.C.E, in Martinique.
It values the djembe as a basic rhythmic instrument out of its traditional context.
The same year she publishes a book of poetry that illustrates the album, ten chapters that detail the poetic universe of each of the CD titles.
All is said when you know that this showgirl, notwithstanding her academic and social level,
was once a street singer, for her own pleasure.
However, she spent her life in a west African country, Ivory Coast.
After graduating in psychology and journalism in a French university and a private graduate school,
she went back to Ivory Coast to embrace a musical career.
However, it will be from Martinique, her mother’s land, where she settles in 2004,
which welcomes her during the war in Ivory Coast, that she becomes known internationally with her EP Eveil, in 2008.
The main title, Reputation de peine (Reputation of sorrow), will allow her to appear on francophone radios in
Brazil, Greece, Japan, Canada and the United States.
The impact of the texts of this singer, a poetess who has published Le chant des coeurs (Songs From the Hearts),
will thrill the Francophile English Speaking World who will call her “The French Star of Tomorrow”.
The words of her songs reflect a rich experience enhanced by her Creole blues.
Christina Goh is asserting herself as a live concert singer with a concept which is her specificity:
a trio (guitar, djembe, voice).
Her show enhances the use of the djembe, basic rhythmical instrument of her compositions which are very modern though.
In 2009, a mini-tour in Paris, at the Laurette Theatre, which federates small stages in France and Marseille,
allows a metropolitan public to discover the “Afro-Blues Black Pearl”.
She is selected the same year by one of the major artist agency in the Caribbean.
In 2010, Christina Goh produces an album, Christina Goh Concept, on independent I.C.E, in Martinique.
It values the djembe as a basic rhythmic instrument out of its traditional context.
The same year she publishes a book of poetry that illustrates the album, ten chapters that detail the poetic universe of each of the CD titles.
All is said when you know that this showgirl, notwithstanding her academic and social level,
was once a street singer, for her own pleasure.
Discography
ALBUMS
2010: Christina Goh Concept
2003: Tranquille
EP/SINGLE
2009: 3 Emotions
2008: Eveil
2007: Metissee Chocolat