Alina Simone
Alina Simone (as Alina Vilenkin born 13. October 1974 in Kharkiv , Ukrainian SSR ) is an American singer and author.
Life
Alina Vilenkin emigrated with her parents from the Soviet Union because her parents were politically persecuted there. She grew up in Massachusetts , where she studied photography at an art school. To facilitate her assimilation as an immigrant, she adopted her mother's maiden name in 1999. After that she lived in Austin , Texas , where she started as a street musician, playing her own songs with the guitar. Her first LP Placelessness came out in 2007. In 2008 she moved to New York City . Her second LP, Everyone is Crying Out to Me, Beware brought songs adapted from her by the Russian singer Yanka Dyagileva, who died in 1991 . In 2011 another LP, Make Your Own Danger , came out with their own songs.
In 2011 she published a collection of autobiographical essays entitled You Must Go And Win . Her first novel Note to Self to be was published in 2013.
Simone works for PRI's The World , writes for Slate , and occasionally publishes on a blog for the New York Times and is also printed there. She taught creative writing at Yale University .
She lives in Brooklyn with the philosopher Joshua Knobe and a daughter .
Music and lyrics
- Placelessness . Acme, me. : 54 ° 40 'or Fight !, 2007
- Everyone is crying out to me, beware . Acme, me. : 54 ° 40 'or Fight !, 2008
- Make your own danger . Pentar Records, 2011
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You must go and win . New York: Faber and Faber, 2011
- I wanted unicorns: Roman . From the American by Vanadis Buhr. Munich: Graf, 2015
- Note to Self to be . New York: Faber 2013
- Madonnaland: and other detours into fame and fandom . Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016
Web links
- Literature by and about Alina Simone in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Literature by and about Alina Simone in the catalog of the German National Library
- Alina Simone in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Alina Simone , website
- Алина Симон , at Peoples.ru
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alina Simone: Want a New You? Change Your Name , in: New York Times , December 26, 2011
- ^ Name change see: Alina Simone: Revisiting the Russian Name I Changed , New York Times Magazine , August 20, 2010
- ↑ Alina Simone , at Slate
- ↑ Alina Simone , at The Opinionator. New York Times
- ↑ Alina Simone: How Mom got hacked , in: International New York Times , January 3, 2015, p. 6 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Simone, Alina |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vilenkin, Alina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American singer and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kharkiv , Ukrainian SSR |