Shows
Upcoming
- Jun 29
- YouBloom Festival
- Dublin, Ireland
- Aug 3
- Le Grand Fromage
- Atlantic City, NJ
Past
- Jun 19
- R Bar
- New York, NY
- Jun 6
- Midway Cafe
- Boston, MA
- May 23
- Brighton Bar
- Long Branch, NJ
- May 11
- The Studio @ Webster Hall
- New York, NY
- May 10
- The Saint
- Asbury Park, NJ
- Apr 26
- Ebenezer's Coffeeshop (Downstairs Stage)
- Washington, DC
- Apr 11
- M1-5
- New York City, NY
- Mar 16
- Up or On the Rocks
- Hartford, CT
- Mar 12
- Talking About TV
- Flushing, NY
- Jan 26
- The Hideout
- Toronto, ON
- Dec 8
- All Asia Bar
- Cambridge, MA
- Nov 18
- The RUSH Concert: Sandy Relief Benefit
- Sunnyside Queens, NY
- Oct 26
- The Backstage @ Championship Bar
- Trenton, NJ
- Oct 12
- Left Field
- New York City, NY
- Sep 20
- The Saint
- Asbury Park, NJ
- Aug 27
- Dublin Castle
- Camden, London, UK
- Aug 9
- The Estate
- Boston, MA
- Aug 3
- Le Grand Fromage (upstairs)
- Atlantic City, NJ
- Jul 22
- The Saint
- Asbury Park, NJ
- Jul 20
- Bar East
- New York City, NY
- Jul 13
- The Red Star (Upstairs)
- Brooklyn, NY
- May 24
- M1-5
- New York City, NY
- Apr 27
- Lina Frey
- New York City, NY
- Apr 26
- Chico's House of Jazz
- Asbury Park, NJ
- Mar 22
- The Bitter End
- New York City, NY
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Biography
With a life steeped in music and performance, Kiirstin Marilyn isn't just at home on the stage - she was born to it.
After a childhood focused on theater - culminating with a B.A. in musical theater and an extended role in a nationally touring Broadway revival of Cabaret-Kiirstin entered the world of live, original music by joining Hoboken-based progressive rock band Ground To Machine. In 2007, with Kiirstin as their lead, GTM won the Break Contest which earned a place on the Bamboozle stage, and played the Saints & Sinners festival headlined by Glassjaw.
Inspired by the band's success and looking to grow as an artist, Kiirstin left Ground To Machine to form Verity In Stereo - a genre-bending jazz/rock quintet that achieved much local success. Verity In Stereo repeatedly headlined Asbury Park's legendary Stone Pony, opened for Cobra Starship and 3OH!3 for the finale of MTV's Too Fast For Love Tour, enjoyed regular air play on college, internet, and commercial radio (including a spotlight feature by 95.9 WRAT's Maria Mar), were nominated for the 2011 Best Avant-Garde Asbury Music Award (Kiirstin was also nominated for Best Female Vocalist), and named RAW:NYC's Band of the Year for 2011.
True to her inimitable, boundless ambition, Kiirstin closed a year of great achievement by enlisting the producing talents of Brian Deneeve (From Autumn To Ashes, current touring guitarist for The Wanted) and Todd Weinstock (Glassjaw; Men, Women, and Children) for her solo project, an intensely personal venture that nonetheless defies the notion of genre boundaries. Mixing big-band orchestration, hip-hop percussion, R&B melodies, and vocals that soar from Jazz Age crooning to heartbreaking intimacy and everything between, Kiirstin has crafted a sound as eclectic and remarkable as the woman herself - deeply grounded in musical history yet endlessly inventive, Kiirstin Marilyn promises to be like nothing you've ever heard before and won't ever forget.
Kiirstin currently resides in New York City, where she debuted her solo EP at The Bitter End in March 2012. She recently won her second RAW:NYC Musician of the Year title and has been touring regionally in the US as well as internationally with shows in London, UK and Toronto, CA. Keep up with news, shows, and music at KiirstinMarilyn.com or facebook.com/KiirstinMarilyn.
Press
"I really like her stuff. Her voice is unique, different and refreshing."
Tom Parker, The Wanted
"She is amazing!"
Jay McGuiness, The Wanted
"...Kiirstin [has a] beautiful voice... Enjoying the tunes..."
Johnny Minardi, A&R Fueled By Ramen
"She is really amazing. I like her sound alot. Great Tunes. Really good stuff."
Dave Briggs, The Cab
"Betty Page + Betty Boop + Marilyn Monroe = Kiirstin Marilyn"
MyndjackRadio.com
"she definitely and defiantly took it to the next level. This is a transitional project that assures the public will have no choice but to indulge in her melodies and harmonic voice as it flows through this maze of emotional lyrics and heart gripping highs and lows…"
LifeAsWeKnowItZine.com
"...Kiirstin Marilyn can sure belt a tune."
HelmetBunny.com
"Kiirstin has an unearthly sound, in the most non-insulting way I can imagine. Her sound and style are about to change the course of music. It’s rhythmically expressive and experimental with musical structures that fuse the styles from way back when and present day sounds into gloomy, moody, atmospheric experiences. And after all of that, it somehow becomes enveloped in a package of contemporary hip beats that take her songwriting and lyrics to fascinating art altitudes. Let’s just say she is distinctive and addicting. Not that this matters by any means, but she also has the look. A lovely young woman with exceptional style who can sing? What else could you ask for? I thoroughly enjoy her music to its entirety. Every song is strikingly dissimilar from the last, and each feels like an experiment gone incredibly right. It’s refreshing to hear a genre-breaking artist, for she has a little bit of everything. Two of my favorite tracks are “Radioactive” and “For Peace.” However, do not let those two tracks distract you from all of her other great music. Music lovers of any and all genres do yourself a favor and check her out, for you will not regret it."
Maria Mar, Jersey Rock / The Aquarian Weekly / 95.9 The Wrat
Contact
Artist Contact | Kiirstin Marilyn - KiirstinMarilyn@gmail.com
Business Contact | Chad Coronato - chad@chadcoronato.com