Anastasia wears quiet a few hats, like the songwriter’s hat with a few feathers, and the singer hat just red, the teacher hat – a burette type, environmentalist hat made of recycled paper and many more. She is never bored of the varied life she is living. Her biggest dream of all is to succeed in the music business, to write great songs that people will say: “I discovered an amazing song yesterday, listen to this” about, sell an outrageous number of CD’s, so people in the music business will drop her name all over saying: “That Anastasia girl topped all indie sales, and she did it all by herself!” and leave people many memory songs. “I’d love for people to listen to one of my songs and say “This was our wedding song”, or “This is my summer of ‘99 song”, if that ever happens, that’ll be a dream come true” says Anastasia about her fantasy of success.
When Anastasia came from Russia in September of 1998, her life changed dramatically. Leaving life long friends at 12 years of age was heartbreaking, at the same time teaching Anastasia a great lesson about friendships, and gifting her with one of her newest songs called “Living in the Memory”:
“There’s one thing that we’ve realized.
It’s never like it used to be,
Tears run down the face,
But it’s never like the good old days.”
“This song is about understanding the reality of time, and that although I always imagine going back and reconciling with my friends, it won’t be as I see it in my mind – it won’t be a dream like I imagine it to be.”
Anastasia started writing songs in grade 8 – ultimately bored in history class; ideas started developing themselves into poems, which later became songs. “I had no idea how to put music to songs, although I knew how to play classical piano, which is reading sheet music, and not improvisational at all. I found out about a songwriting contest with a very close deadline, so under pressure I sat at my piano and came up with some music which weren’t even chords, but just notes that sounded good together, sang the words that I’ve written to it, and I was on my way!” Now Anastasia’s songs have developed to have very fascinating chord changes and mostly love themed lyrics.
Everything worked out for Anastasia positively so far, fitting like a puzzle – learning piano which became a part of Anastasia’s adventure, boredom in class leading to songwriting, vocal discovery after coming to Canada and Anastasia is still not finished discovering all the musical avenues she is going to live through (orchestration, film scoring, music production and much more.)
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We're looking to get our first single "Trust Me On This One" played on as many radio stations and everywhere as possible.
If you host a show, run a station, whatever - and want a copy of it - or if you know somebody that does - pass the good word along. Send us a message with an e-mail address that we can send it to and we'll fire off a HIGH QUALITY mp3 of it to you. Sound good? Sounds good. Hear from you soon!
I love Aero dark chocolate bars!! They are better for you than milk chocolate bars! I have one every day! Have a great evening, Anastasia !
Peter
PS: The SEN now play Buffalo for the Eastern hockey conference championship. GO SENS GO !!!! I am a hockey fan.
We are chateauneuf. You are Anastasia Filippova . Hooray for names.
We put a 4th and FINAL song (stupid myspace only allowing 4 songs)... and we've got a 5th one that'll remain a "surprise" until the 5 song EP is recorded. Surprises are fun.
Wanna go listen and let us know what you think? The new one is called "trust me on this one" and it's the first thing that plays when you go to our profile.
Hey! We posted another silly little song - was wondering what you thought? Be a friend and let us know :) The song is called "rain down a little love" and it's the first song that plays when you go to our profile. Honesty is a virtue ;)
thank you thank you! i am doing well, ROMA IS GOING TO COME VISIT ME IN CHINA IN 2 WEEKS!! i'm very excited about that. otherwise just school, i get back to canada in july. what about you? i'm loving the music i'm glad to see you've come so far! i definetly want to start my piano lessons back up when i get to ottawa. one love for music and all arts. update me on how you are doing! i miss seeing your smiley face around (esp in data management class)
