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Elizaveta

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Location: Santa Monica, CA

Websites:

• http://elizaveta.net/
• http://myspace.com/breakfastwithchopin

Bio: ELIZAVETA

Elizaveta (Elizaveta Igorevna Khripounova), whose father was a well-known Soviet diplomat in the times of the Cold War, was born in New York, where her ... (more) parents were stationed at the United Nations, and grew up in Moscow, Russia, playing piano but refusing to learn how to figure-skate. She left home in her teens, to roam the world and follow her musical dreams. In the process, Elizaveta has traveled across Europe, learned Italian and French, graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in opera performance and learned how to drive a stick-shift and ride a motorcycle.

Elly's music is a quirky and magical brew of musical styles, which, in addition to jazzy pop and rock, even features opera as a new ingredient. She worships at the altar of Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder and Elton John, still listens to Queen, and has written over a hundred of songs. The petite and deceivingly fragile pianist, and now guitarist, doesn't like diamonds, has a thing for motorcycles, and you can easily find her pairing up an opera dress with a pair of Converse kicks, while reading Eastern philosophy and queuing up her favorite Japanese anime on Netflix (which would probably be by Hayao Miyazaki).

Her previous releases include Breakfast with Chopin, which was a songwriting tribute to her favorite classical composers, such as Beethoven, Chopin and Tchaikovsky. It was followed up by Like Water, the title track of which was featured in the Sony Pictures film The House Bunny.

Elizaveta currently lives in LA, but dreams of moving to New York City, scoring a Japanese anime and buying a used Harley Davidson Sportster. In the meantime, she writes a lot of poetry and is recording a new album. For more information, visit http://www.elizaveta.net.
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