Music like Xenia Rubinos

Xenia Rubinos (born July 24, 1985) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

Xenia Rubinos was born in Hartford, CT in 1985 to a Puerto Rican mother and a Cuban father. She studied jazz composition at the Berklee College of Music. She spent most of her 20s acting as the primary caregiver for her father as he dealt with a degenerative illness, which inspired her song "Black Stars." She has lived in Brooklyn since 2006.

Her album Black Terry Cat was released to critical acclaim and was named the 11th best album of 2016 by NPR.

Rubinos' early music influences include composers like Prokofiev and Ravel, as her father was a fan of classical music and opera. Salsa, rumba and merengue, including releases by Fania Records, were popular in her house while growing up. Later, she became enthralled with hip-hop, R&B and Miles Davis in particular, which led her to study jazz at the Berklee College of Music.