Cristina Martinez

Cristina Martinez is an American musician, singer and guitarist. She first of all played as guitarist in Pussy Galore before being the singer and guitarist of Boss Hog.

In the civilian, it is called Cristina Spencer since its marriage with Jon Spencer, guitarist principal of Boss Hog.

Biography

Beginnings and the period Pussy Galore

Cristina Martinez, of Hispanic origin by his/her father, passed his childhood to Washington, alive in his/her grandmother.

Impassioned teenager of music and more particularly of Punk, it traverses all the concert halls of the capital and drag in the underground medium. At the time of a concert of Jesus and Mary Chain with Washington in 1985, it meets by chance Jon Spencer come also to attend to him this concert.

About this meeting, she will say later: " I had come to ask to the members of the group (Jesus and Mary Chain) if I could take photographs of them during the concert. I trailed backstage and I then saw funny of guy who turned and turned on a bicycle. My first thought was " what a looser! ". I re-examined it after the concert and one started to speak. I then saw that behind this hairy head hid a brilliant and significant spirit. The following week, Jon moved in at home and we are always together today. "

Jon Spencer sang and played then of the guitar within Pussy Galore. With the other members of the group, they had concluded from there that to remain with Washington would not lead them to nothing, they thus decided to go to New York and took along with them Cristina.

At that time, Cristina was not intended to take part in Pussy Galore. It had been registered with the courses of summer to the Université of New York but it stopped quickly to become the third guitarist of Pussy Galore, whereas it could not hardly play about it.

The personality of Cristina was not long in creating serious tensions within Pussy Galore, mainly with Julie Cafritz, second guitarist of the group. Cristina will tell qu'" they fought to have the attention of Jon. Julie compared to the group and with the music, me for sentimental reasons. "

Cristina then decided to leave Pussy Galore and to join a new group The Honeymoon Killers. Some time after, Pussy Galore separated, for obscure financial reasons, and Jon Spencer went to play in several groups without finding truly its place.

Boss Hog

The idea thus came naturally to Cristina and Jon to assemble a group joining together them. But from the beginning, he was thought like a Side-project, while at the same time they did not have a principal group strictly speaking.

Cristina and Jon learned whereas a group having to occur the following week with mythical CBGB' S had been just countermanded. In one week, they contacted musicians to supplement the line-up group and found the name: Hog boss.

The concert, assembled in the urgency, occurred surprisingly well, and it was the beginning of a epiphenomene in the underground medium, due as much to the music and that with the fact that Cristina, for its very first concert as a singer, had decided to occur entirely naked.

She will republish this performance at the time of the other concerts of Boss Hog and will also pose naked for the small pocket of the first Extended play of the group, Drinkin', Lechin' & Lyin' , in 1989.

The career of Boss Hog and Cristina will be definitively launched with the first album of the group, in 1990, with however an evolution more mainstream: indeed, if Cristina is always naked on the small pocket of Cold Hands , it poses there sitted, its pubis hidden by its leg folded up and its chest hidden by its hair. In the same way, it will not make any more a whole concert completely naked.

Cristina is only reproduced on all the small pockets of the recordings of Boss Hog, sometimes naked completely, sometimes naked but hidden, sometimes equipped with underclothing, but always very sensual.

For the continuation of the career of Cristina within Boss Hog, to see the article devoted to with this group.

Cristina and Spencer married and a child was born from their union. They became a couple headlight of the American underground, the critics speaking some times about them like Kurt Cobain and about a brown Courtney Love. It is true that it divides much with this mythical couple: music, the attitude, sex appeal, a certain exhibitionnism.

Bonds

Pussy Galore
The Honeymoon Killers
Boss Hog
Jon Spencer

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