Undoubtedly Christine Santelli has an strong heartbreaking powerful voice that will make shake a stony person She has also been honoured with Downbeat Magazine Awards as the ‘Blues Artist Of The Year’ Santelli is a woman with a natural abitlity for composing music and lyrics she tastefully and cleverly combines in different musical styles such as soul, country or rock all spiced with deep southern blues knowledge She was born in Manhattan but soon she moved to Clifton Park, NY near Albany Her parents encouraged her to learn piano when she only was seven years old and a year later she also began to learn guitar When she was twelve years old, one day her guitar teacher played a Bessie Smith’s record and since that day Christine knew what she wanted to play for the rest of her life BLUES Listening to her recording work your will gradually discover her evolution that, like good wines, gradually matures along her records in different musical ranges, vocal instrumental technique, composition level, etc 24 Hours is a solid well built cd and the following two recorded live albums Live in Paris and Moscow Live show all the power and strenght she has when she is on stage in front of a hungry audience of good rock ‘n’ roll music Christine is a very professional artist with a lot of presence and she immediately connects with any audience with the ability that only great artists have Finally in her last piece of work Season Of A Child she has come back to the recording studios to do a record that till now represents her greatest musical maturity So this is a very solid cd where Christine gives the best of herself on a powerful exhausting performing together with her usual backing band plus her best friend and one of the most admired New York blues musicians, Popa Chubby on guitar Popa’s playing is the perfect support to let Christine Santelli shine as the flaming star she is