MISHA: a German singer-songwriter currently living in Moscow, attempts to fuse jazz and poetry, emotions and sophistication, and molds various styles and techniques into something new, something unusual – something one could call "expat jazz". Originally from Germany, Misha now lives in Moscow where she works as a singer and songwriter and teaches improvisation and vocal technique. She works with some of Moscow's jazz greats like Sergej Manoukian, the Vladimir Nesterenko Trio, the Jakov Okun Trio (Jakov Okun piano, Anton Revnjuk bass, Aleksandr Drums, Ewgenij Boretz and others. She also performs with various formations in Russia, Eastern Europe and Germany. Her first album "With a bit of your love" was released in May 2004 at Rodenstein Records, her second album "Early Train" appeared in August 2006 at Hofa, followed by her third album „Quadratur des Kreises"(Squaring the Circle) in 2008. Her new album „Christmas Jazz – Vom Leuchten der Sterne" ("Christmas Jazz – as the stars shine") has been released just in time for Christmas 2008. In her third CD, Misha joins German-language Christian literature with a fusion of excellent jazz and popular music. The topic: Believing in a good God in a broken, sick world. Her songs, that are based on biblical Psalms, accounts from the New Testament and her own experiences are very personal and include issues such as doubt and failure. Yet, she successfully projects joy and hope as basic motives in the music with the help of harmonized vocal parts. She is accompanied by Jakov Okun (piano), Anton Revnjuk (bass), Aleksandr Mashyn (drums) and for the first time, Vladimir Nesterenko (flute). An honest CD, that goes under the skin…