Singer, pianist, composer and dancer, Petrina represents an unicum in the Italian panorama, synthetizing in a visionary style her oblique and sensual songwriting with the experimentations of pop-rock, electronics, avant-guarde and jazz. Appreciated by David Byrne, who has often published her songs in his radio playlists of favorites, she has recorded now her forth album as a songwriter (''Be Blind''- AlaBianca/Warner). She has recomposed a piece by John Cage, and the score is now published worldwide by Edition Peters (NY) – the official editor of John Cage - with the double name Cage/Petrina. She has recorded an album with Paolo Fresu and some of the most famous Italian jazz players for l'Espresso/La Repubblica and she has recently sung as a main character with Nicholas Isherwood in a contemporary opera produced by Teatro La Fenice in Venice. She has recorded in the United States and in Europe albums of unpublished works by Morton Feldman (OgreOgress) and Sylvano Bussotti (Stradivarius). She has played with John Parish, Elliott Sharp, Jherek Bischoff, Mike Sarin, Nicholas Isherwood, Paolo Fresu, Mario Brunello, Sylvano Bussotti, performing in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, London, Berlin, Koln, Madrid, Strasbourg, Tokio and Osaka. www.deborapetrina.com