Simona Buja

(Last update: 03/12/2020) She was keyboardist, composer and the first female vocalist of the Italian band Darkwave, Industrial, Neo-Classical, EBM, Synth-pop and Italo-Disco called Kirlian Camera. Her membership in the band was between 1980 and 1988, with some departures from the band within that period. She participated in the works: * Demo called Dawn in 1980 [vocal in tracks News (Embryo), Myths and For A Different Moment. All tracks of Demo album was released in Kirlian Camera compilation called Uno in 2002] * Mini Album called Kirlian Camera in 1981 (vocal, keyboard) * Album "It Doesn't Matter, Now" in 1983 (vocals on a live in 1982 and vocal arrangements on the tracks Communicate and Edges) * Single called Edges in 1984 (vocal, different version of 1983 "It Doesn't Matter, Now" album * Single called Blue Room (vocal, back-vocal, songwriting) * Single called Call Me (second voice/back-vocal) * Single called Ocean (vocal, back-vocal) * Single called Helden Platz (vocal). * In 1985 she recorded a track called Silence that was not released by Kirlian Camera. This track was released in 1991 by the band East Wall, led by former Kirlian Camera member Fabrizio Chiari. The vocal was credited as Lorenza Larini in place of Simona Buja. When this album was relaunched 3 times in a row in 2017, it was credited with her own name on the vocals of the track "Silence". * Another unrelesead work with her vocals was the track called Memories Of A House, released on the compilation The Ice Curtain, in 1998. * Due to the fact that the band Kirlian Camera is still under contract with Italian Records, she had the singles Passing Masks and Still Close released on her own name in 1981. Detail: on the cover of this single is written: "Simona Buja from Kirlian Camera". She left the band for no reason disclosed in 1987, before the album Eclipse and shortly after the release of the single called Helden Platz. As Simona Buja left Kirlian Camera shortly after the release of the single Helden Platz in 1987, she was replaced by singer Antonella Dasseno for some live and TV performances. She sang in playback, but the voice was still Simona Buja's. After that, unfortunately there is no news about Simona Buja. On September 3, 2019, on the website El Garaje De Frank, Angelo Bergamini, founder of Kirlian Camera, said she was a champion incomparable in creating obstacles, referring to the difficulty in recording the second Eclipse album with all the changes in its formation (members).