Her name is Aita Romanova. She is 20 years old and hails from Russia. Aita is a junior second semester, and is majoring in JMC, and minoring in INF and is considering a second minor in fine arts.
When Aita thinks of her childhood she would usually hear Boney M. Her mum would listen to them and now it’s even more popular, because of the retro music’s reemergence in the spotlight. “I do remember myself trying to listen to my mum’s Beatles CD of the white album. I didn’t get anything out of it. I got confused by the song “why don’t we do it on the road”. I was too young to comprehend it.” Some of the pop songs that are in her head are from then are mostly Russian pop songs, but nothing specific Aita admits.
Aita started out with the beatles. Then she transitioned in to a weird part of the music world, when her brother started listening to some more alternative stuff. One of her favorite bands in 7th grade was Korol i shut. “They are a Russian band, and are like a folk, punk, rock band. They would use really interesting lyrics which consisted mostly of horror stories, fairy tales and folk tales.”
After this she went through some music stages, the first being System of a Down and the second being Linkin Park. Since then she has been listening to harder music. She can’t really recall the names of the bands, but Maximum the hormone are still on Aita’s toplist of her most favorite bands ever. “I have it as a goal to go to their live concert before I die. “
Aita started playing her first musical instrument at the age of 6. She went to a musical school to play the viola. She played the viola for 3 years. At the same time Aita was going to dance classes. And the two activities started to create time conflicts for her. In the end she chose the dance classes, because the teacher wasn’t picking on her so much there. But Aita shares that she got her first music lessons and learned how to read musical notes there.
“Then during high school we just got that random idea, when everybody was super excited about playing in a rock band. My friends were like: “I’m going to play the guitar and you’re going to play the drums” and I was like: “Ok”. “
From there she went to another music school and found a music teacher who would give her private lessons that would not be included in the school schedule, so the lessons would be after classes. “That’s how I got my rhythm in the beginning. I played jazzy kind of stuff. I played super simple things. I even performed”
The teacher had a children’s jazz band and Aita would perform with them. They had a lot of celebrations and the band played patriotic music. Later on Aita started playing with her close friends and there was a summer school that she went to, where some random local guys started teaching the kids how to play instruments and how to form a band. There she started learning to play the bass guitar. Aita got so into it that she asked her parents to buy her first bass guitar, which she still has now. Their band played at many different concerts, some open air festivals and some anime conventions.
A year ago Aita started a band with her university friend where she actually played bass in a band for the first time.
With her friend Dana they wanted to play some songs that required a ukulele. So when Aita was working in the states she bought herself a ukulele.
Aita’s favorite band is Maximum the hormone and her favorite song is Mr boogie tambourine. “They play the funk, they play the punk. It exemplifies why I like the band so much.” Aita loved to play this song with her band when she was in high school.
“I think a lot of different songs define me as a person throughout my life. My primary goal with music is to have fun with it and that’s why I like the music that I like.”
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