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Meet Xenia Rubinos. A New York-based vocalist, composer, and performing artist from Hartford, CT and Artist-in-Residence for 2024-2025 of Rooted + Relational!
Xenia is the daughter of a Puerto Rican mother and a Cuban father. Her voice serves as a living archive of the body, with The New Yorker calling her work “vocally generous, rhythmically fierce music that slips through the net of any known genre.” She has released three critically acclaimed albums, toured internationally, and performed at NPR's Tiny Desk Concert, while also teaching at Berklee College of Music’s NYC campus.
Rubinos’s project, Circulo de Voces, reimagines the choir as a public service and community resource that gives voice to memory and new futures. Through research, talleres, and performances, she explores collective voicing practices in the Boricua community, centering the historically excluded voices of Puerto Rican women, queer and non-binary individuals, and Afro-Boricuas. The Circulos will be recorded as audio and written archives to inform her upcoming album and performance.
Founded in 1973 by a coalition of students, faculty, and activists, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) is the largest university-based research institute, library, and archive dedicated to the Puerto Rican experience in the United States. Learn more at centropr.hunter.cuny.edu
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Meet Xenia Rubinos. A New York-based vocalist, composer, and performing artist from Hartford, CT and Artist-in-Residence for 2024-2025 of Rooted + Relational!
Xenia is the daughter of a Puerto Rican mother and a Cuban father. Her voice serves as a living archive of the body, with The New Yorker calling her work “vocally generous, rhythmically fierce music that slips through the net of any known genre.” She has released three critically acclaimed albums, toured internationally, and performed at NPR's Tiny Desk Concert, while also teaching at Berklee College of Music’s NYC campus.
Rubinos’s project, Circulo de Voces, reimagines the choir as a public service and community resource that gives voice to memory and new futures. Through research, talleres, and performances, she explores collective voicing practices in the Boricua community, centering the historically excluded voices of Puerto Rican women, queer and non-binary individuals, and Afro-Boricuas. The Circulos will be recorded as audio and written archives to inform her upcoming album and performance.
Founded in 1973 by a coalition of students, faculty, and activists, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) is the largest university-based research institute, library, and archive dedicated to the Puerto Rican experience in the United States. Learn more at centropr.hunter.cuny.edu
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