{{short description|French singer, songwriter and poet (born 1977)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Christina Goh | image = Christina_Goh_Gros_Morne_podium_Martinique.JPG | caption = Goh in [[Gros-Morne, Martinique]] | image_size = | alias = The Afro-Blues Black Pearl | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1977|07|14|df=y}} | birth_place = [[12th arrondissement of Paris]], [[Paris]], France | instrument = Voice | genre = [[Jazz]]<br />[[World music]]<br />[[Chanson#Modern chanson|Chanson]] | occupation = Singer, songwriter, poet | website = [http://www.christinagoh.com/ christinagoh.com] }}
'''Christina Goh''' is a French singer, songwriter and poet.
==Biography==
The daughter of an Ivorian father and a mother from [[Martinique]], Christina Goh was born in 1977 in Paris, France. She spent her life in [[Côte d'Ivoire]] and went to university in France but finally chose a musical career at the age of 23. Her first album was recorded in 2003, however, it is only in 2009, that the single "Réputation de peine" (Reputation of sorrow), released and sold in Martinique, was played on [[French-speaking]] radios of Japan, Greece, Andorra, Brazil and Quebec.<ref>{{cite web|title=Francophonie Diffusion-Radio comments|url=http://www.francodiff.org/en/2-radios-talk/5-comments-and-planned-airplay/4210/6298/?s_alpha=G&page=3|location=Paris|date=2009|work=Francophonie Diffusion|access-date=3 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303172513/http://www.francodiff.org/en/2-radios-talk/5-comments-and-planned-airplay/4210/6298/?s_alpha=G&page=3|archive-date=3 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Christina Goh, named "La perle noire de l'afro-blues" (Afro-blues black pearl), puts together African, [[Caribbean]] and [[blues]] styles, but she remains at the same time faithful to French song texts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://embracenu.wordpress.com/2010/12/18/christina-goh-is-%E2%80%9Cthe-afro-blues-black-pearl%E2%80%9D/|title=Christina Goh is "the afro-blues black pearl"|work=Embrace You|date=18 December 2010|access-date=14 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101223060419/http://embracenu.wordpress.com/2010/12/18/christina-goh-is-%E2%80%9Cthe-afro-blues-black-pearl%E2%80%9D/|archive-date=23 December 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In 2008, she created the Christina Goh Concept, which is an atypical [[trio (music)|trio]]: [[djembe]], guitar, voice or piano, guitar, voice. The djembe is always the rhythmic point of the presentation. Its fusion with the electric guitar, whose blues accents translate the poetic characteristic of the concept, is atypical. In 2010, the musical album Christina Goh Concept was recorded in [[French West Indies]] and sold by the label ICE Consulting in Martinique.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.francodiff.org/en/4-artists/14-artists-entries/4210-christina-goh/?s_alpha=G|title=Francophonie diffusion – Christina Goh|work=Francophonie Diffusion|location=France|date=2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030755/http://www.francodiff.org/en/4-artists/14-artists-entries/4210-christina-goh/?s_alpha=G|archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref> The ten-titled album on Plaza Mayor Company Ltd label made the world discover the concept on the web.
Christina Goh wrote two collections of poems. Le concept en poèmes (The concept in poems), her second collection, is what she named "a new experiment",<ref>Goh, Christina. "Le concept en poèmes" France. May 2010. p. 9.</ref> where she explains in poems, the ten universes of the ten songs of the album Christina Goh Concept.
In 2010, she was in concert in [[Avignon]] Festival Off, named "the greatest theater of the world" in France, invited by the Laurette Theater.<ref>{{cite web|title=Programme Avignon Festival Off: Laurette Théâtre| url=http://www.avignonleoff.com/programmation/2010/public/C/christina_goh_concept_4988/lieu/laurette_theatre_ex-funambule-_450/|publisher=AF&C| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111216165843/http://www.avignonleoff.com/programmation/2010/public/C/christina_goh_concept_4988/lieu/laurette_theatre_ex-funambule-_450/|date=2010|location=France| archive-date=16 December 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== Awards == * 2015 : 14th Independent Music Awards Nominee - Eclectic EP category<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independentmusicawards.com/ima/2015/14th-annual-independent-music-awards-nominees-announced/|title=The 14th Annual Independent Music Awards Nominees Announced!|date=26 March 2015}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=September 2017|sure=y|reason=The page does not list nominees}}
==Discography== * ''Tranquille'' (album) 2003 * ''Métissée chocolat'' (single) 2007 * ''Eveil'' (EP) 2008 * ''3 Emotions'' (EP) 2009 * ''Christina Goh Concept'' (album) 2010 * ''N'oublie pas'' (single) 2012 * ''Fusion'' (album) 2012 * ''Invisible EP'' (EP) 2014 * ''14 Melodies (Live at Le Petit Faucheux France)'' (album CD/DVD) 2015
==Bibliography== * ''Le chant des coeurs'' ({{ISBN|978-2-7466-0747-7}}) 2009 * ''Le concept en poèmes'' ({{ISBN|978-2-9536-5530-8}} ) 2010 * ''Fort, utile et beau'' ({{ISBN|978-2-8106-2195-8}} ) 2011 * ''Du noir et blanc à la couleur'' ({{ISBN|978-2-322-03038-5}} ) 2013 * ''14 Mélodies en confidences poétiques'' ({{ISBN|978-2-322-01987-8}}) 2015
==See also== {{portal|Poetry}} * [[Music of France]]
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.christinagoh.net Christina Goh official website] *[http://www.myspace.com/christinagoh Christina Goh official Myspace]
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