Xenia Rubinos

Incorporating wide-ranging influences including but not limited to R&B, jazz, and hip-hop, Xenia Rubinos' eclectic style is guided by expressive vocal performances inspired in part by the likes of Nina Simone and Billie Holiday. Her debut album, 2013's Magic Trix, delivered an inventive indie rock patchwork of jazz, hip-hop, funk, Caribbean rhythms, and electronics. She continued to test boundaries on equally colorful, sociopolitically informed releases such as 2021's Una Rosa. Raised in Hartford, Connecticut in a household with Puerto Rican and Cuban heritage, Rubinos sings ...