ABOUT

When XTINE was 11 years old, she went to get ice cream with her family at the beach.

The name of the ice cream place was "Utter Delight."

When they walked there, a person was dressed in a cow suit, dancing to a boom box that was currently playing "Titanium" by David Guetta, featuring Sia.
XTINE was not very involved in music at the time, but hearing that song sparked a passion of interest and inspiration.

She then kept discovering more on Sia and her music on her tablet at the beach house, and became a fan of Sia, who inspired her to start making songs.

At age 11, XTINE struggled in public school, as she was bullied, and she struggled with her learning differences. She moved to a private school where they were adaptive and accommodating to her learning needs.
When she was given a school laptop, the second she got home from the school day, she started exploring the music software Garageband - a built-in app on her laptop.
She played around with loop presets, put together an arrangement, and got excited that she made her first little tune.

By the age of 12, she was songwriting, taking voice lessons, learning how to produce, and record vocals.
XTINE reached out to Sia on Twitter, asking what she thought of some of her first songs!

Sia engaged with her, and was supportive of her, and Sia even went to the extent of recording a video of herself dancing along to one of XTINE's songs, and at the end of the video said "Don't stop singing!"
From getting so much kind support and words of encouragement from the artist that inspired her even more, made her even more eager, motivated, and passionate with making more and more music.

At age 14 and 15, she faced her first battle with mental health, and depression. Her very first battle. When XTINE couldn't find the words to describe her emotions and the depth, she turned to the piano - which COULD express exactly what she was feeling and processing, and used it as an outlet to express her pain.

 

Music became something more to her. It was more than just music. The songs she would create from that point on, were expression and portrayed her battles and emotions, and her songs were therapy to her.

She put up a song on Youtube at the age of 15 called "Beautiful Has No Cost" and the song was about beauty, happiness and silver linings that comes after pain. She wanted to portay the message that no matter what you go through, to not give up because there is so much more on the other side, that awaits. With that song, she reached thousands of hearts, and hundreds of people told her how that song helped them personally during a hard time.
It then became her life-long mission to help hearts and try to make any amount of positive impact on people's lives.
She spent tens of thousands of hours throughout the years, and her progress and results showed!
Throughout her years at middle and highschool school, her music teacher Tim was constantly helping her and encouraging her growth with music.
XTINE got so many opportunities at school to perform, work and learn with, and by the age of 18, she released her first serious official album called "REVEAL," in the genre pop. She released 2 more albums the next 2 years.

At the age of 23, XTINE wanted to go on a 6-month "Stage 2" music journey with the intentions to gain experience in other genres, to be able to have her own style with a combination of different genres. She remembered her music teacher Tim showed her Bjork's music video of her song "The Gate," which took XTINE's breath away, from the unknown genre, other-worldly concept, and the complexity of the mixture of time signatures.
XTINE then started to dig deeper into Bjork, studying and analyzing her music, which lead her to be deeply inspired and constantly in awe of her music.

XTINE started experimenting with avant-garde, jazz style singing, and electronic production.
6 months later, XTINE released her first multi-genre experimental album called "Experiment. No. 1"
She is non-stop working hard to take her career to the next level, and wants to inspire anyone she can, and touch people's hearts.