arinakuchmina exists somewhere between sound collages. Each layer is a fragment, a memory, a thought, a feeling that doesn’t want to stay silent.

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Shaped by life between St. Petersburg, Helsinki and Amsterdam, she navigates herself through orchestras and her own world of cross-genre music. Trained in classical viola and jazz vocals, her songs move between pop, soul, classical music culture and experimental textures, drawn by intuition rather than rules.

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Inspired by Sam Cooke, Donny Hathaway, Dinah Washington, Amy Winehouse, Peter Doherty and the wild English 2000s, her music carries the rawness of honesty and a quiet bohemian spirit.