Christine Vaindirlis born in London, mainly grew up in South Africa and then moved to Italy to pursue her life dream in music. She commenced her studies at the “Conservatorio di Milano G.Verdi” in Italy where after she was awarded a scholarship by the Region of Lombardy to study opera under the supervision of “Teatro della Scala di Milano”. She was then endowed “The Berklee College of Music Achievement Scholarship”, Boston in 2001 and graduated with a dual B.M. Cum Laude in Contemporary Writing & Production and Performance as a Voice principal. She also served as an ambassador of the college for the World Scholarship Tour Auditions in Boston, and in 2003 her merits were recognized by the Solo and Ensemble Award for Outstanding Musicianship.

Christine has had extensive experience working as a sideman and band leader in the many facets of the music industry over diverse stylistic approaches from classical to Funk, R&B, Jazz/Fusion and World Music. She was the founder and director of the twenty-three piece Boston based band, “SHIKISHA!”, an entertaining production promoting the traditional Music of South Africa. Privileged to perform with artists like Hiromi, Layla Hathaway, Esperanza Spalding, Leni Stern, Bakithi Kumalo, Tony Cedras, Wunmi, Daniel Sadownick and in world renown venues and festivals such as the International Folk Music Festival in Boston, the Miriam Makeba Tribute Concert in New York 2008, the Musicians and Emerging Artists Festival in New York, the Cotton Club in Tokyo, Le Poisson Rouge and the legendary Zinc Bar in New York, the Piccolo Teatro di Milano and Auditorium di San Fedele in Milan Italy and the Epidauros Theatre in Greece just to name a few, Christine now a New York based true world citizen will be releasing her debut album "Dance Mama!", a fusion of Funk, Jazz and South African influenced vocal and horn arrangements featuring an “all-star” band.