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Jazz • Soul • Classical Fusion
BIO
Kristina Aglinz is a Los Angeles-based vocalist, songwriter, bandleader, composer, producer, arranger and classical concert pianist whose musical world brings together jazz, soul, funk, pop, classical music and orchestral crossover.
Raised in Samara in a family immersed in music, Aglinz began studying piano at age five. Her mother was a piano teacher, while her father was a jazz trombonist who spent roughly 35 years performing with a big band. Recordings he brought home from international tours introduced her to American jazz, soul and funk at an early age. Among the most formative was Al Jarreau’s Breakin’ Away, whose melodies, phrasing and vocal improvisations became part of her early musical education.
Alongside those influences, Aglinz pursued rigorous classical training, ultimately earning a master’s degree in piano performance. Rather than treating classical music and jazz as separate disciplines, she developed both simultaneously, building a career as a professional pianist while establishing herself as a jazz vocalist, songwriter and bandleader. She went on to perform in jazz clubs and concert halls and with big bands and symphony orchestras as both a vocalist and pianist.
An early visit to Los Angeles for the World Championships of Performing Arts became a pivotal point in her career. Aglinz received the Overall Grand Champion title and a Gold Medal in Jazz Vocal, recognition that reflected the breadth of a musical identity already spanning multiple traditions.
Years later, music brought Aglinz back to Los Angeles, where she continued developing new collaborations and her own artistic direction. Among those collaborations was a creative relationship with the late Grammy-winning arranger and producer Jorge Calandrelli, who worked with Aglinz on arrangements of her original songs. Over time, she began revisiting that material from the perspective of the musician and person she had become, reshaping earlier compositions rather than simply preserving them as originally conceived.
In 2026, Aglinz entered a new chapter of her career with “Heaven Is Shining Bright,” her first original single and the opening release from her forthcoming debut album, planned for early 2027. The project brings together the musical languages that have shaped her life while introducing her work as an original recording artist.
Written by Aglinz with lyrics by Anatoly Berlin, “Heaven Is Shining Bright” reflects a spiritual perspective centered on love, hope and beauty as sources of strength. The song establishes a thematic foundation for the larger body of work she is now creating: music informed by decades of experience but approached from her present artistic perspective.
For Aglinz, the connective thread across classical repertoire, jazz improvisation, contemporary songwriting and original production has always been communication.
“If you ask me what my native language is, I can’t say any language except music,” she says. “This language allows me to communicate with people very easily.”
With “Heaven Is Shining Bright,” that language now opens the next phase of her career — an original body of recorded work tracing a musical journey from her classical beginnings in Samara through jazz, orchestral performance and Los Angeles, toward an album shaped by the many traditions that have defined her life in music.
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