Welcome to the New York Times Popcasts, your steady time machine malfunction or music

music criticism.

I'm your host, John Caramacca.

Indeed, what is a girl to do?

Here we are about a year globally into the coronavirus pandemic.

We continue to lose people at a alarming, unsettling, frustrating clip, including many musicians,

many people who've made important contributions to popular music, jazz, and so on.

Last year you may remember we did an episode celebrating three people celebrating the work of

Joe Diffie, Nisham Wooden, and DJ Black & Mild.

Then wanting to do a follow-up episode, maybe two follow-up episodes.

So this week we are going to look back at the lives of Christina.

We're going to look back at Fred the gods on and we're going to look back at Adam Schlesinger from Fountain's Awakening.

Each of them very, very distinctive in their respective fields.

So we're going to go along this week.

We've got Kirby Riley calling in to talk about Christina.

We've got a friend of the pop cast, Ben Siserio, to talk about Adam Schlesinger,

and Sean Sattaro is going to join us to talk about Fred the gods on.

You're listening to Christina.

Christina was art house post disco, no wave adjacent,

Arab East Diva in the early 1980s.

Christina passed away in March.

She had been ill for some time with a number of autoimmune disorders,

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