About Kalina

Kalina is a girl who has been through enough drama in her short life to fill an odyssey. She has been physically intimidated, bullied, and frankly emotionally abused. She writes songs to not only process her own thoughts around her experiences, but to break the silence about them. With her dark, eerie lyrics she showcases resiliency in making it known that she will not bow to pressure, stress, or coercion, and neither should you.

Writing songs since she was 13, she officially debuted her original music at 14 through the release of various singles on Bandcamp that were later compiled into her first EP titled “Dangerous Waters”.  Her latest EP release at 22, “Eye for an Eye,” received radio play on CFAB radio, and a nomination in BiteSize Film Festival in the Best Music Video category for the starting track “Love Myself”. The EP awarded her acceptance into the “Writer to Writer” New York Songwriting Retreat in 2022 hosted by Platinum Award Winning Songwriter Andrea Stolpe, where she got to work with artists from all around the world before being invited to work directly with Stolpe as a mentee. She then applied, and was selected, to work with Founder of YouTube channel “Inside the Score” and Cinematic Music Producer Oscar Osicki to cinematically produce one of her songs written under the mentorship of Stolpe. The resulting Single ‘Glass Bottle’ released August 16, 2024.