Kristina Maria Chalhoub (born May 14, 1989 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian pop singer-songwriter. As a second-grader, eight-year-old Kristina joined her school's choir writing her first song in third grade. She says she would write poems in class and then later set them to music. During her fifth and sixth grade years, she spent time in local studios recording demos. She participated in school talent shows in her native Ottawa. At 11, she enrolled in dance classes and took formal lessons, at the Canadian Conservatory of Music in Ottawa.