HANNA KRISTALL
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HANNA KRISTALL
A world between soul, synth and style
Hanna Kristall is an Austrian pop artist with Mexican and Polish roots, who moves between Berlin, New York and Vienna. She is currently working on new music and is expected to release her next song ‘La Mexicana’ in summer 2025.
Hanna’s path began in Los Angeles, where she recorded her debut album with Stacey Lamont Sydnor, producer and drummer for legends like Missy Elliott, Stevie Wonder and Robbie Williams. Her first stage? The infamous Viper Room on Sunset Strip. From there, she went on to directly perform at Vienna’s Donauinselfest, Europe’s largest open-air festival, and showed herself as a deeply emotional, high-energy and authentic live performer.
Strongly inspired by LA’s music scene, she felt like her musical identity had just started to awaken and went on to work with Berlin-based producer Daniel Karelly after seeing him live on stage and feeling an instant sonic connection. They are currently working on new music and are giving each song time and space to develop at its own pace. In her early work, the pop-rock album Lady Mechanic, Hanna Kristall already hints at something deeper beneath the surface: raw, artistic, experimental. Now, her music is evolving into something more magnetic and emotionally mature: electronic sounds and spherical beats surround her warm soul voice and invite us into her world made of dreams, hopes and cinematic tension.
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While continuing her work on music, she will soon launch TRUST & PANIC — a collection of minimalist, high-grade T-Shirts in black and white (soon available online).
Off-stage and behind the scenes Hanna moves through the film world and has worked for international productions with names like Guy Ritchie, Kate Winslet, Stephen Frears, Natalie Portman, John Krasinski,...
To produce her new songs Hanna Kristall has been withdrawing from stages, avoiding timelines and working in silence. While music itself is a wholesome place, the world around it is not. The noise got too loud, and her silence slowly emerged in response to the over-exposing and attention seeking culture. Her reaction is a natural and calm rebellion, an intended distance: not to disappear, but to feel and to become:
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Hanna Kristall is an artist, who doesn’t want to be the center of attention: she wants people around her to look inward and re-connect with themselves. And by cultivating her own pace and space in a hyper-speed culture, she is opening the possibility for others to do the same. She shares and connects but detaches from both the outcome and the outer world. Her language is words, music and fashion - and her goal is to reach people at a certain frequency, be it through music, words or visuals. She wants people to explore their own self and step into their own, unique path… her songs, and anything else she does, should merely serve as reminders.
LA MEXICANA - COMING SOON
u know
a song about your inner voice
“On her debut album Lady Mechanic, Salzburg’s Hanna Kristall reveals herself as an artist who knows exactly what pop is about.”
Michael Ternai, mica
“Hanna Kristall sounds a bit like Madonna – but with a better voice.”
Eberhard Forcher, Ö3
“The young singer from Salzburg recently surprised us with her extraordinary and mature debut record Lady Mechanic, which found acclaim in Austria’s demanding music scene.”
Helmut Schneider,
echo Medienhaus
“Hanna Kristall is an authentic, emotional and powerful Austrian singer with multicultural roots. Her intoxicating drive and dedication to her music are the best ambassadors for Bank Austria’s crowdfunding efforts.”
BANK AUSTRIA (Kulturpreis)
“Openness, cultural diversity, self-confidence, and the courage to change...
I want to encourage people not to hide, to be comfortable making mistakes, and to grow through those experiences.“
Petra Suchanek,
Salzburger Nachrichten
