"Swim (Open Waters)" is a collaboration between NYC-based songwriters Cassandra Kubinski and Lori Martini. Collectively, they have placed 8 songs on the Lifetime hit TV show, "Dance Moms," (including this one) and regularly develop music for pop acts and licensing.


CASSANDRA KUBINSKI (born in Hartford, CT) is a songwriter, singer, actress, producer, and yogi. Her latest release is her 4th album JUST BEING MYSELF, available on iTunes and CD Baby under artist name "Cassandra." The album features pop/jazz trumpeter Chris Botti on the lush, Paris-inspired number “Je T’aime”, and a re-imagined version of Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance.”

Cassandra’s previous albums (Live at Camp Nashville (2010), Hold the Sun (2007), hiding underneath (2005) established her on the singer/songwriter scene in NYC and elsewhere, as she toured the US (Borders Books and Music national “Artist to Watch” 2008) through clubs, coffeehouses, colleges, private homes, benefits, and everywhere she could jump on a piano and sing. Further-flung places like Germany and Jamaica followed, and she found herself opening for the likes of Anna Nalick, Dickie Betts, Big Shot, and Ingram Hill. Her music also receives radio airplay and placement on TV (MTV, Lifetime, Food Network, Bravo, more) and films (Dare (Sundance feature), Red Hook, Life’s Passing Me By), including many songs produced with TRIFECTA, one of her production teams. The songs “Somebody Told Me”, “Halfway to Heaven”, “Save You Tonight” and “Twisted” were all recently featured on the Lifetime TV series “Dance Moms” and the iTunes compilations from the show as well.

Cassandra's acting career also includes film, TV, voicing jingles and voice-overs for brands like Maybelline, Hasbro, Barnes and Noble, and Kohl's, and she now regularly develops songs on commission for artists, brands, and events. She has also written with her first and greatest songwriting inspiration, Billy Joel. “But I’m most excited about being onstage and performing live, in support of the new album,” she smiles. “I’ve been in the studio, which is awesome because it’s a controlled environment of making magic, but nothing is more magical than creating a spark with real people in the audience, an experience you share for a moment that can never be duplicated.”