In 1984, Christine quit her day job at Bellvue Hospital to pursue a career in music full-time. Since then she has recorded nine solo original albums, produced six compilations showcasing songs by dozens of her favorite singer/songwriters, and is part of three Four Bitchin' Babes albums. She has published one solo songbook, two group compilations, has won two New York Music Awards, three ASCAP composer awards, a NAIRD Award for Folk Album of the Year and the Kate Wolf Memorial Award, given yearly by the World Folk Music Association.

Her concert career has taken her all over the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Germany, and for two years during her travels she was the folk correspondent for Public Radio International's World Cafe. For the first three months of 1997, she hosted the weekly three-hour radio program, Sunday Breakfast on WFUV-FM in New York City. She has also written for The Washington Post.

Christine grew up in a family of nine chldren and is self-taught on guitar, having learned how to play by watching lessons broadcast on public television when she was 12 years old. If you have supported public TV over the years, she'd like to thank you for making her career possible. Some of Christine's songs have been recorded by artists as diverse as Andrea Marcovicci, Dave Van Ronk, and the Dartmouth Decibelles. In October of 1996 her latest group compilation, the two disc, all-humorous 21 artist Laugh Tracks was released by Shanachie Entertainment, and Shining My Flashlight on the Moon was released in March of 1997. In September of 1998, One Wild Night - In Concert, a live recording of a concert in Bloomington, Illinois, was released on Christine's new christinelavin.com records - and is available through Fifty Fifty Music

Christine's Website: christinelavin.com