Afina

Afina was born in The Republic of Moldova and she’s been making music since childhood. She made a substantial career for herself in her country, even performing throughout Europe and gaining awards and recognition for her many appearances and talents, such as her stint in X-Factor in Romania during 2014 and 2015. She even had the kind of pull it takes to organize a huge charity event for an orphanage in her home country.


Eventually, with dreams of expanding and perhaps even taking over the world, afina immigrated to the United States at age 19 with a head full of dreams and $1200 in her pockets. Once in the U.S. she had to learn everything about this new country from scratch, with all the usual Eastern-European immigrant challenges and woes that entails and then some.


Of course, things don’t always turn out as you want them to, and Afina was feeling stuck, all alone in a strange country having achieved very little in the way of her goals, and that’s exactly where and when this powerful new song was born. You take all of that frustration, all of that difficulty and you grind it in the mortar of an unbreakable spirit with a clear goal, and what you get is some of the most refined Soul music you’ve ever heard with a little emotional support from her parents, and a little bit of determination, Afina began turning things around by keeping her head clear and her eyes on the goal.