Kristine Sa
AnimeFEST! 2002 in conjunction with Nemesis Records is excited to bring you one of the hottest rising stars on the Asian American charts.
Kristine will be opening our concert on Saturday August 31st and have press interviews, panels and autograph session all throughout the convention.
Biography
Birthday: June 6, 1982
Hit Song: Beautiful
A young singer/songwriter with a sultry voice of gold, Kristine was born in 1982 and immigrated to Toronto, Canada from Vietnam at the age of 6. Watching her older sister rise to fame as a singer in the Vietnamese music industry, she harbored dreams of her own career in entertainment, but kept them to herself. Secretly writing songs and recording them in her basement, she hid her growing talent for years. In 1998 at the age of 16, Kristine took the first shot at her dream and joined an all girl group. Mismanaged and unorganized the group quickly fell apart, but not before her voice left an impression on a friend who referred Kristine to a start up label in New York City. Looking for an artist to record, Nemesis Records founder Minh Pham convinced Kristine to record for his new label after having read poetry from her internet homepage and listening to the songs that Kristine had been secretly recording over the years.
For two years Kristine flew back and forth between Toronto and New York on the weekends to record with Nemesis while going to school full time. During that time, some of her completed songs were released as promotional mp3s and Kristine amassed a following the world over. When "I Never Knew" was finally released in February of 2002, sales exploded and CDs were sold to fans all over the US and as far away as Taiwan, Australia and The UK. Recently, radio has caught on and XM satellite radio as well as college radio have started to play Kristine's emotional songs. As more people discover her music, Kristine's dreams are slowly becoming reality.