I'm Krisztina Ustinov. I first began playing music with a zither band in a small Hungarian village called Tállya, when I was so little I had to stand on a stool just to reach the table. Music, and a few kind friends along the way, have held my hand ever since.

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My songwriting journey began years later, when I supported Dr Katalin Szili, then Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament, during her political campaign. I felt the campaign needed more spirit and energy, so we wrote a campaign song together. Dr Szili was wonderfully supportive, she even sang it herself.

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Life then became full. A career across continents, a new country, a family. The melodies stayed in my mind but had no space to grow. And then, when life finally settled enough, the music came back, quietly at first, and then all at once.

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These fourteen songs span the last twelve years of my life. Each one carries its own story. A heartbeat found against all odds. A freezing English summer afternoon and a man with a map in his pocket. A morning spent crying in the car, singing words to myself I didn't believe yet. A song born in the adrenaline of a room full of people changing something together.

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Every lyric, every melody, every feeling is mine, written from life, from love, from the things that tried to break me and didn't. But AI helped me bring them to life: translating the arrangements I heard in my head into something real, opening creative doors I never had the chance to access alone. I am deeply grateful for that partnership.

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AI is an absolute enabler. Not a threat. A door.

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These songs are also becoming a book.

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Fourteen chapters. Fourteen songs. Each story written to be read while the music plays, with a QR code in every chapter linking straight to the track. A scored lyric essay collection, the kind of book that doesn't quite exist yet.

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If you'd like to follow that journey, you can sign up on the home page. You'll be among the first to know.

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With gratitude to the people who knowingly or unknowingly inspired, encouraged, and kept believing in me, at certain moments, and throughout: Attila Boros, Gabor Kolbe, Melinda Figura, Marosi Zoltán Pierrot, Ron Werber, Ferenc Baja, Dr Katalin Szili, Dopeman Pityinger László, Pityinger Péter, Gloria Garcia, Jeremy Connell-Waite.

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I hope these songs find you at the right moment. And if any of them resonate, I'd love to hear why.

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