Cristina Monet-Palaci, known professionally as Cristina, is a singer and writer, best known for her No Wave recordings made for ZE Records around 1980 in New York. A Harvard drop-out, and the daughter of a French psychoanalyst and an American illustrator-novelist-playwright, she was working as a writer for The Village Voice when she met Michael Zilkha, who later became her husband. A wealthy heir to England's Mothercare retail empire, Zilkha was just starting ZE Records with Michel Esteban. Zilkha persuaded her to record a song called "Disco Clone", an eccentric pastiche dance record written by Ronald Melrose, a classmate of hers at Harvard. The original recording, released as ZE001, was produced by John Cale and was the first to be issued on the ZE label. A later version featured the uncredited Kevin Kline trying to seduce the breathy Cristina. "Disco Clone" was a cult success and encouraged ZE to release a full-length album in 1980, which was produced by August Darnell. The album was later reissued as Doll in the Box. Cristina also issued, on a 12" single, a poker-faced cover of Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is?" 

January 2nd, 1959 in   /  Died:   Apr 1st, 2020 - aged 61, corona virus