Laila Salins has spent her life traversing the richly diverse musical worlds of chamber music, opera, Latvian folk music, art-rock and music theater, with appearances throughout the US and Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Latvia, Sweden and Australia . She is active as an interpreter of contemporary music, currently as the vocal soloist of the Ecliptica Ensemble.

"Laila Salins captivated the crowd with her performance"
(The New York Times)

"Exceptional in her singing ability, feeling for style and performing intensity"
(Zurich Times)

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Laila has just released a CD of Latvian ballads and drinking songs, Saskandinot (Toasting) for voice and instrumental ensemble - music with a gypsy flavor, an elemental passion and an existential twist.

"Listening to the collection, Saskandinot, one admires the deeply rhapsodic musical accompaniment and the singer's richness of imagination. The songs fascinate and intrigue."
Dace Aperans (Laiks) (Time - Latvian weekly)

"Laila Salins crosses all the old barriers to open a door to the riches of a culture where deep, ancient and ancestral strains meet the contemporary worlds of folk and popular music, all in a mix that is as true to its roots as it is original, moving and articulate for our latter day."
Eric Salzman (composer; reviewer; author of Twentieth Century Music: An Introduction )

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She created the multi-media work, Insomnia/Insexton, based on the life and poetry of Anne Sexton, for which she set the poetry to music; and is the co-creator of the music theater work, The Incredible Adventures of Champagne Charlie.