AbaNDa SHAKE
Biography

The music project AbaNDa SHAKE is an international team that consists of authors, performers, creative, music producers Natali Dali & Dimitris Krist from Ukraine and William D. Hodges, project exclusive representative, executive producer from the USA who joined the team in 2008.

Dimitris Krist is an experienced professional musician, ...arranger, composer, and a multi-instrumentalist. He also responsible for the project's finished sound-production - recording, editing, progging, mixing, and mastering.

Natali Dali composes melodies and writes lyrics as well as contributing to sound editing, arranging, and final production.

Dimitris finished music school and graduated from music college in Nikolayev, Ukraine. For several years he worked as a musician in the army orchestra and in a state philharmonic live band, traveling throughout the former USSR at that time. Later, he taught music arrangement at the college level and is currently a consultant for the largest music instrument retailers throughout Ukraine.

Natali finished music school, art school, and art college in Nikolayev, graduating from state university in Odessa as a specialist of English philology with honours. She has worked as an interpreter & translator for large corporations and gave English lectures to adults. However, her passion for writing music began as a young teenager and continues at this time.

Natali and Dimitris have collaborated as songwriters (writing and producing) at their audio studio “DINAMIX” for about 7 years before starting on the project "AbaNDa SHAKE". They have produced many works of various styles and genres – primarily songs for different musicians and projects as well as instrumental tracks and commercials. As a successful team, they have written melodies, lyrics, arrangements, recorded, edited, mixed and mastered. Thus, they have collaborated in many of Ukrainian popular music acts, as well as being credited with many more musical accomplishishments.

Of course, simultaneously, they have composed their own songs as well. After Nat & Dim recorded their first song in English - "Shake" – they invented the name for their new project - AbaNDa SHAKE – creating their artistic pseudonyms – Natali Dali & Dimitris Krist – that corresponded to the international character of their music that they themselves call “global intel pop” – music that is easily understood by anyone throughout the world.

The first songs “Shake”, “Cat” and “Shake RMX” and the videoclips for these songs conquered the air of Ukrainian territory. “Shake RMX” and “Cat” for 4 months maintained the highest ratings in the chart of “Europa FM” radio and reached the number one and number four positions respectively, the videoclips were in constant rotation on the national music television channels for 3 months and reached the number one position on “M1” and “TET”, and also entered the charts on the “Maks TV” channel in the United States. The songs are regularly played on radios and podcasts worldwide – “Golden Town” Sweden; “Rodon FM” Greece; “Radio Quartz” Belgium; “Radio Moskva” Russia; “Radio Eska” Poland; “Radio M1” Lithuania; “RadioFusion” Spain; “Radio One” United Kingdom; “Radio Utopie” Germany; and many others in: Netherlands, Norway, France, Italy, etc. AbaNDa SHAKE music is often used commercially for fashion and entertainment shows, such as the “Ukrainian Fashion Week”.

AbaNDa SHAKE has recorded their album of 10 songs and 4 remixes, currently awaiting release. They are mastering the video production – expanding their technical facilities and now possess a film production studio - "DINAVID". The videos for “Cat” and “Shake (RMX)” were self-produced, including production and post-production. The videos maintain air dominance throughout many Ukrainian TV channels and are also in hot rotation on “Maks TV” in the USA.