Biography

CZARINA ® (styled as C Z A R I N A) is Vero Faye Kitsuné, an award-winning electronic rock musician, producer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, filmmaker, visual artist, and a veteran creative director and designer in the fashion industry. A Filipino-American New Yorker now based in Galicia, Spain, CZARINA is a multi-disciplinary artist that combines transcendental themes with her love for futurist culture, biomechanics, art and ancient history, mythology, folklore, and budo martial arts. CZARINA ’s ethereal yet heavy-hitting cerebral soundscape seamlessly melds electronic with organic sounds, transcending a vast spectrum of genres including dark electro, synthpop, gothic rock, chamber pop, and prog metal. Her music is known for its vast dynamics, atmospheric synths, grand orchestral arrangements, thunderous percussions, powerful and epic vocals and guitar riffs, and poignant, artful lyricism. CZARINA’s unique life story as a multi-hyphenate artist was featured in VOGUE Philippines April 2023 Issue, with the legendary 106-year old indigenous tattoo artist Apo Whang-Od on the cover. Her 2018 debut has landed her in Music Connection’s Hot 100 Independent Artists to watch. Her much-beloved music videos received numerous prestigious international film fest awards, including Music Video of the Year (2021) at New York Film Awards for “Wonderland.” Her critically-acclaimed sophomore record “Arcana” was named Album of the Year by esteemed synthpop authority Synthpop Fanatic.