Marina: Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend
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With her rising arpeggios and like-it-is lyricisms, this 22 year-old is on the top of every major A&R’s list right now. Hayley Joyes discovers Marina is a sterling example of how all female solo artists should behave - with grace, honesty and guts.
Hailing from somewhere in between Greece and Wales, Marina, of Marina And The Diamonds, currently lives in north London with her keyboard and lots of musty, old clothes. “To pay the rent I sell vintage clothes online,” she admits with a laugh. The gravel voiced singer has done all manor of grotty jobs to make ends meet, including serving canapés to the elite. “I used to say ‘This is fat free and makes you lose weight’ - not really it’s foie gras you idiot!” A energetic character, Marina relied on her Greek roots to create her precious name. “It means diamond – but it sounds a bit like a porn star name,” she giggles.
The Grecian singer found her voice as a young girl. “Actually, my grandma had an amazing voice,” she says. To work on her musical career, Marina moved from Greece and went to college in Chiswick, but it wasn’t to last long. “I didn’t enjoy it, it didn’t suit my voice and I was made to sing Disco Inferno,” she sighs with another laugh. Determined to do her own thing, she then went on to study at Middlesex University. A year or so ago, she dropped out and was mentored by an A&R from 679 Records; since then Marina has been working the London club circuits and playing sell out shows.
A self confessed Dolly Parton and Patti Smith fan she is predicted to have a pop smash with the speedy keys and wobbly singing of Seventeen. Another amazing track is the bitter-sweet song Hermit The Frog, which is full of dramatic vocals, snappy chords and lyrics like ‘My heart just burst like a glass balloon.’ From listening to ‘Rina’s music you get a very good sense of exactly who you are dealing with. Girls, Girls, Girls is a fantastically funny tune about the state of femininity and women who, in Marina’s words, ‘Look like girls, but think like guys.’ “The tune is taking the p*ss out of magazines, that are like on one page ‘Oh my God she’s so thin she’s going to die,’ and then the next page it’s ‘She’s got a roll on her stomach,’” Marina exclaims. “I just feel it’s about time that someone actually talks about it.” Just like Marina and her music, it’s a 24 carat statement, the likes of which we’re looking forward to hearing a lot more of.
MySpace.com/marinaandthediamonds
RWD Magazine
With her rising arpeggios and like-it-is lyricisms, this 22 year-old is on the top of every major A&R’s list right now. Hayley Joyes discovers Marina is a sterling example of how all female solo artists should behave - with grace, honesty and guts.
Hailing from somewhere in between Greece and Wales, Marina, of Marina And The Diamonds, currently lives in north London with her keyboard and lots of musty, old clothes. “To pay the rent I sell vintage clothes online,” she admits with a laugh. The gravel voiced singer has done all manor of grotty jobs to make ends meet, including serving canapés to the elite. “I used to say ‘This is fat free and makes you lose weight’ - not really it’s foie gras you idiot!” A energetic character, Marina relied on her Greek roots to create her precious name. “It means diamond – but it sounds a bit like a porn star name,” she giggles.
The Grecian singer found her voice as a young girl. “Actually, my grandma had an amazing voice,” she says. To work on her musical career, Marina moved from Greece and went to college in Chiswick, but it wasn’t to last long. “I didn’t enjoy it, it didn’t suit my voice and I was made to sing Disco Inferno,” she sighs with another laugh. Determined to do her own thing, she then went on to study at Middlesex University. A year or so ago, she dropped out and was mentored by an A&R from 679 Records; since then Marina has been working the London club circuits and playing sell out shows.
A self confessed Dolly Parton and Patti Smith fan she is predicted to have a pop smash with the speedy keys and wobbly singing of Seventeen. Another amazing track is the bitter-sweet song Hermit The Frog, which is full of dramatic vocals, snappy chords and lyrics like ‘My heart just burst like a glass balloon.’ From listening to ‘Rina’s music you get a very good sense of exactly who you are dealing with. Girls, Girls, Girls is a fantastically funny tune about the state of femininity and women who, in Marina’s words, ‘Look like girls, but think like guys.’ “The tune is taking the p*ss out of magazines, that are like on one page ‘Oh my God she’s so thin she’s going to die,’ and then the next page it’s ‘She’s got a roll on her stomach,’” Marina exclaims. “I just feel it’s about time that someone actually talks about it.” Just like Marina and her music, it’s a 24 carat statement, the likes of which we’re looking forward to hearing a lot more of.
MySpace.com/marinaandthediamonds
RWD Magazine
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