Christina Moser, success with Krisma
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Christine Moser She comes from a Swiss family but was born and raised in Milan. He met Maurizio Arcieri at a young age and was already a well-known face of pop music in the 1960s, singer of New Dada and later a soloist. In 1976 they founded i krisma, originally called Chrisma, from the union of the first letters of the names of the participating artists Christina and Maurizio. They became famous for their electronic experiments and are still among them today Pioneers of the Italian New Wave. The duo presents their first single, loveproduced by Niko Papathanassiou, 1976 at the festival bar. In 1977 they released the album Chinese restaurant and in 1980 they officially changed their name. In the same year they published cathode mom, which marked the turning point of electropop. Over the years they have collaborated with important artists such as Battiato, Subsonica, Vangelis and Hans Zimmer. In total will publish ten albums in the studio, from new wave to synth-pop to more techno-electronics. From the 90’s the Krisma also started to act frequently on television and founded their own station called Krisma TV. The last evenings together in public date back to 2006, since then they have not appeared again. The duo ended musical activity with the death of archerswho passed away in 2015 at the age of 72.
Christina Moser, her words
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Because of their gritty looks, Krisma were often considered a punk duo, but the two singers always made it a point to state that they had nothing to do with punk. Moser told the Mirror of the Press: “My husband was called a Nazi because he wore black. The freelancer threw Molotov cocktails at us during a concert, Maurizio almost cut his finger with a razor blade on stage and then put his bloody hand in the face of these guys who were standing under the stage”.