Youth

Youth, 25 year old Krissy Paraskeva, was born and raised in North London. At 16 she won a full scholarship to Italia Conti. A year later Ben Elton picked Krissy to play the leading lady in Tonight’s The Night. At 17 she toured the country, and Ben Elton introduced her to William Orbit. Orbit took her to a studio session with Robbie Williams whose album he was producing. Krissy recorded the backing vocals on Williams’ RudeBox and developed a taste for studio life.
In 2013 Krissy started work on a solo project under the name Youth, making dark, left-field beats with friend Young & Sick (now signed to Banks’ Harvest Records). Youth have been supported by and received critical acclaim from BBC Introducing & Radio 1, XFM, TripleJ (Australia), the 405, Earmilk, Les Inrocks (Paris), and Rankin's Hunger Magazine.

The first Youth release was a record called Low in early 2014.

Youth’s first feature was with a young producer from Sydney called Kilter.

In late 2014 Youth recorded with LuvBug and MNEK; a record which gave them their first taste of commercial radio at London’s Capital Xtra.

Towards the very end of 2014 Youth collaborated on a 3 track EP with Paces, a producer from Australia’s Gold Coast who had remixed Hold Me.

Youth’s debut EP was titled About You and came out in April 2015 on Camouflage Recordings, and featured Turtle, Illaman, Astro Zu and Young & Sick