Christina Nicola "Chrissy" Costanza is an American singer, songwriter and musician. She is best known as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the rock band, Against The Current. She is also a YouTube personality. Her self-titled YouTube channel, where she posts vlogs and beauty tutorials, currently has over 810,000 subscribers. This channel is currently inactive.
Costanza was introduced to Dan Gow and Will Ferri through a mutual friend in 2011, joining their band. Against The Current soon started to write original songs, whose lyrics were mostly written by Costanza. They also started to post covers of popular songs on YouTube. Against The Current released their first single "Thinking" in 2012. It was not until they released "Thinking" that the band started to gain a sizable amount of subscribers on YouTube. Against The Current released two more singles, "Guessing" and "Closer, Faster". They also released numerous covers of pop songs during this period. Meanwhile, Costanza made a self-titled YouTube channel and started posting beauty videos. During the summer of 2013, Against the Current went on tour with Alex Goot.
2014-2015
Against the Current released their first EP, Infinity in 2014. On June 6, Costanza made an appearance in Access Hollywood. In the fourth quarter of 2014, Against The Current released an acoustic version of the Infinity EP and they embarked on their first tour in the UK. They started 2015 by going on The Outsiders Tour with The Ready Set.. Against The Current debuted "Gravity" and "Talk" from their second EP. Through December 1–8, Against The Current headlined their first tour in the UK. In February 2015, Against The Current released their second EP, Gravity. Following the release of the Gravity EP, Against The Current co-headlined a tour with Set It Off. At the end of April 2015, Against The Current had signed a record deal with Fueled by Ramen. In May, Against The Current released an acoustic version of the Gravity EP. At the end of August, they embarked on their first world tour, the "Gravity World Tour". In October, Against The Current released "Outsiders" as their first single since signing with Fueled by Ramen.
2016
Against The Current released their debut albumIn Our Bones on May 20, 2016. In May, following the release of their debut album, Chrissy performed live with Alex Goot on his tour on several occasions. In June, Against The Current traveled to the UK to perform on Radio 1's Rock All Dayer. While they were in the UK, Against The Current was asked to play a last minute set at the Download Festival. Kerrang!, a UK-based magazine devoted to rock music, says that the band are "writing their future", and described Chrissy as "Their Fearless Frontwoman". At the end of June, Rock Sound announced that Chrissy would receive her own column in their monthly magazine to talk about Against The Current's debut album, writing her own lyrics for the band, touring, and giving advice on how aspiring bands can be successful. On June 24, Against The Current played their first show on Vans Warped Tour 2016.
2017- Current
Against the Current recorded the song "Legends Never Die" for the video gameLeague of Legends, as a tie-in for the 2017 League of Legends World Championship. Against the Current released their second studio album, Past Lives in 2018. Against The Current returned to Reading and Leeds Festival in August after which the band made their first appearances at Lollapalooza 2019 and Pentaport Rock Festival. Costanza collaborated with Cailin Russo on the song "Phoenix" for the 2019 League of Legends World Championship, which she then performed at the finals in Paris, France and again on New Years Eve at Bilibili New Years Eve Concert in Beijing, China. Costanza performed the songs "Each Goal" and "Hero too" as the character Kyoka Jiro in the anime series My Hero Academia.
