associated_acts years_active birth_place label background instrument genre article_title name occupation
lammas 1995 -- ireland traile belle records , babel label . solo_singer singer contemporary jazz/folk . christine tobin
 christine tobin singer , songwriter , composer
christine tobin

christine tobin is an irish born vocalist and composer from dublin who has been part of the london jazz and improvising scene since the second half of the 1980s .
she has been influenced by a diverse range of singers and writers including betty carter , bessie smith , leonard cohen , olivier messiaen , miles davis and poets wb yeats , paul muldoon and eva salzman .
she has established a reputation as a unique presence on the jazz scene with original songs , style and interpretative or original lyrics .
