Cristina Monet Zilkha, known during her recording career as Cristina, was an American singer and writer, best known for her no wave recordings made for ZE Records in the late 1970s and early 1980s in New York City. She was a pioneer in blending the artsiness and attitude of punk with the joyful energy of disco and pop…. which helped pave the way for the massive successes of her contemporaries, like Madonna and Cyndi Lauper, and anticipated the rise of confrontational but danceable alt-pop acts…