Sonja Kristina joined Curved Air in January 1970 after a successful stint in the stage musical ‘Hair’.

In the sixties, influenced by Sandy Denny and Buffy St.Marie, she had played in folk clubs. With Curved Air she was voted ‘Best Female Vocalist’ in Sounds music paper in 1971 when she was also regarded as something of a sex symbol although this aspect was more fully developed after the mid-1970s.

Whilst Curved Air achieved some success, including a Top 5 single with ‘Back Street Luv’, they had several line-up changes and in 1976 succumbed to musical differences and differing musical trends with the onset of punk.

After releasing her first solo album in 1980, with her then band Escape, Sonja spent much of that decade raising a young family. By 1988 she was gigging again and is generally regarded as a pioneer at that time of “acid folk” when she hooked up with Ty-Lor and Friends and in 1991 released ‘Songs From The Acid Folk’.