She is a daughter of the market town of Wartenberg, but musically Kristina Paulini only recently had her first home game, at the cultural summer concert on Nikolaiberg.
“It has always been a dream to be able to make junk on stage - and people still like it,” says the 28-year-old with a smile.
BY TOSKA VOGEL
Wartenberg - Paulini, born in Landshut in 1993 and raised in Wartenberg, has always been fascinated by music. “My father is a big music fan. We'd listen to records together or watch live shows. I thought it was great how the musicians stand on stage, do their thing and feel free, ”says the young singer, incidentally the daughter of long-time SPD market councilor Michael Paulini.
She started playing the piano at the age of seven and kept this hobby together with music education as a degree at the University of Augsburg. When she switched from elementary school to the musical Camerloher grammar school in Freising, singing came into her life: “I was in the choir at the time, and we had to audition every six months so that singing became a completely normal thing for me. The first time I really sang in front of people was in the university jazz band. The music has just always been there, ”says the 28-year-old about her life.
She is now a member of two bands: a women's group from Augsburg, called “Lilla Blue”, and the duo “Fliegende Haie” with Munich's Jan König, who recently performed in Wartenberg. Paulini could soon imagine what is currently a leisure activity full-time: “At the moment I am working as a campaign manager for the music broadcaster EgoFM. Since the job also has a lot to do with music, I like it a lot and is also compatible with my own music in terms of time. "
The Flying Sharks have been around since 2020. "We met through fellow students, and it was obvious from the start that we could make music together," reports the Augsburg native.
“It was a lot of fun right from the start, and because I mainly come from classical music, it was very new to me.” The duo describes their music as follows on Spotify: “Snappy lyrics, rapped and sung, fly over trap- Drums, clear bass lines and synths. "
As a child, she was a big fan of Gwen Stefani, and thought her lightheartedness and freedom of movement were cool.
But she would also like to "have a coffee" with Radiohead or Jack White from The White Stripes.
"If our music can touch people a tenth of what Radiohead touched me, I would be happy." Why is the band called Fliegende Haie?
"We loved the idea of jumping out of the pool like flying sharks and observing from the outside what is happening to our music and our lyrics."
When asked whether there was a message behind the band photo, in which she was holding her music partner on a kind of leash, she replied: “On the one hand, the pose was created just for fun, on the other hand, we wanted to make a statement against gender roles.
As a woman, I should be allowed to dress as androgynously as I want, and Jan should also be allowed to show his femininity.
The general rule is: worry less about what others think of you, because everyone is mostly concerned with themselves anyway. "