Keren Ann

This week , whilst flicking through Q magazine, i came across an artist that was new to me, Keren Ann. I am always on the look out for interesting girl singers.....it seems to be my music of choice at the moment, am i getting old? Has my interest in loud, shouty music disappeared? Lets hope not!!!!




Anyway.......quick Keren Ann biog:

Keren Ann (born Keren Ann Zeidel in Caesarea, Israel on March 10, 1974) is a recording artist/singer/songwriter/producer based largely in Paris, New York and Israel. She plays guitar, piano and clarinet, engineers and writes choir and musical arrangements. She is descended from Russian Jews on her father's side and is Javanese and Dutch on her mother's. She lived in Israel and in the Netherlands until the age of 11, when her family moved to France. She retains her Dutch and Israeli citizenship.
In 2000 she began her solo career with La biographie de Luka Philipsen — produced by Lionel Gaillardin and Benjamin Biolay, who also co-produced its follow-up, La disparition (in return, she helped write his debut album, Rose Kennedy). The pair also wrote several songs for Henri Salvador's best-selling, prize-winning 2000 comeback album, Chambre avec vue, including the hit "Jardin d'Hiver".
Her third album Not Going Anywhere was released worldwide 2003, but her American breakthrough came with its follow-up, Nolita (2004). Recorded in Paris and New York — it is named for Nolita, her neighborhood in lower Manhattan — it is sung half in French and half in English.
Lady & Bird is a collaboration with Baroi Johannson, of the Icelandic group Bang Gang.
"The Isis Project" is a concept album that she wrote with Guy Chambers and was sung by Sophie Hunter.
Keren Ann's fifth solo album, the eponymous Keren Ann, has been released April 23rd, 2007 in Europe and May 8th, 2007 in the United States. ~ Wikipedia



"Lay Your Head Down", taken from the album "Keren Ann"


If you haven't heard of Keren Ann before i would seriously recommend you give her music a try, if you have, then i commend you on your good taste. Please visit the Keren Ann website.