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Kristine Elezaj

American singer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ4946314 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kristine Elezaj, also known as Kebe, is an American singer. She rose to prominence when Nick Ashford invited her to perform with him and his wife Valerie better known as Motown artists Ashford and Simpson at their hip New York City venue Sugar Bar. Kristine released her first single "Let You Know" a year ago followed by "Souvenirs".

Early life

Kristine Elezaj is of Albanian descent. Her parents moved to the United States from Ulcinj, Montenegro.

Rally car driver

Elezaj has participated in various automotive rallies across the United States and has served as recurring guest host on the Sirius Radio Maxim Channel show RPM. In June 2009, she made her fourth appearance in the Bullrun Live Rally. She also competed in the 2008 Fireball Run Adventurally series driving a BMW, an event associated with the Race to Recover America's Missing Children campaign, where she met guitarist James Burton. Over her rally appearances, she has driven alongside participants including Mario Andretti, Carl Lewis, Paris Hilton, and Hayden Christensen.

Music career

Kristine released her first single "Let You Know" along with a music video late 2009. In early 2010, Kristine then released "Souvenirs" with its music video which was credited as having dance moves like the young Britney Spears.

Editorial summary

“Kristine Elezaj” enters the record as american singer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kristine, Elezaj and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2008, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1985-07-06. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kristine, Elezaj and American.
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Why this record matters

“Kristine Elezaj” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kristine, Elezaj and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4946314. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2009, 2008 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kristine Elezaj” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.