Sinatra, Harvey Fierstien, Mahalia Jackson, Scott Walker, Adrian Sherwood, Dr. Alimantado, Lou Reed, Barak Obama, La Lupe, Romy Haag,
The Last Poets, Stevie Wonder, Sister Dorthy Love Coats, Brel, Chet Baker,
Weil, Lenny Bernstien, Donny Hathaway, The Stylistics, Rev. Hezikia Walker,
Kid Congo, Antony, Diamanda Galas, On U Sound, David Tibet, Aretha Franklin, Johnny Manthis, Judy Garland, Billy Holiday, God, Bob Fosse, West Side Story, Miles Davis,
Al Green, Grace Jones, Soul Train, Marvin Gaye, Spike Lee, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, Public Enemy, Frankie Vallie & The 4 Seasons, Johnny Maestro and the Brooklyn Bridge, Grace Jones, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Diego Rivera, Otto Dix, Janet Bandes, Malcom X, Reinaldo Arenas, Nikos kanzantakis, Father Mychal Judge, Marlene Deitrich, Clint Eastwood,
Jerome Robbins, Audrey Hepburn, Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Leonard, Muhamid Ali, Chris Eubanks, Sonny Liston, Jake LaMotta, Rocky Marciano, Amanda Lear,
Tennesse Williams, Carson McCulllers,John Coltrain, Charlie Parker, Kishi Yamamoto, Dr. John, Liatine Price, Kathrine Battle, Rogers and Hart, Billy Martin, Brett Smiley, Derek Jeeter, Jackie Robinson, Harper Lee, Truman Capote, Shirley Brown, Tony Bennett, Denzel Washington, Beethoven, Mahler, Sean Penn, Richard Burton, Holly Woodlawns, Dusty Springfeild, Burt Bachrach, Marc Anthony, Marc Almond, James Brown, Helen Morgan, Fanny Brice, Al Jolson, Otis Redding, Sam Cook, Mavis Staples, Pop Staples, Sarah Vaugh, King Pleasure, Elizabeth Walsh, Bessy Smith, Frank McCourt, Ernest Hemmingway, Giancarlo Gianinni,
' Red ' Jenny Bellestarre,Stevie Wonder, Stevie Wonder, did I say Stevie Wonder yet? Sinatra again..
Frank Zappa in his 1980 interview with Songwriter magazine said of Little Annie:
˜But when I go to a place like Max's Kansas City in New York and see a group like Annie and the Asexuals, I can really enjoy it. I don't know if that band will ever get a record contract and I don't think they care. I watched them for an hour , painful as it was - their show was real personal and dis organized. This girl was wearing winter underwear with a black leather coat on top of that, and she had a paper bag with a bottle of vodka in it, and she was backed up by five guys who had just bought their instruments, apparently. She was screaming about thorazine and being in a mental hospital and it was real ! You don't get that commitment to just spewing your guts out among L.A. groups."
If you get the voice you deserve then smokey contralto Little Annie-aka Annie Anxiety-aka Annie Bandez has earned every blue hued note. Singer, composer, adventuress, chanteuse/lyricist, Reverend, rancatoure, actress, self taught painter, multi-media artist and post modern cabaret queen, Annie armed with a survivors wonder lust that has
followed a jagged torch lit path that has led her to a long, illustrious and eclectic recording career that has defied catagorization, limitation. Her solo LPs and numerous collaborations ( with Wolfgang Press, Crass, the ON-U Sounds stable, Paul Oakenfold, Kid Congo Powers, Current 93, Nurse with Wound, the late Bim Sherman, Coil, Fini Tribe, and Collapsed Lung, Mike Grimes, Larry Tee, Christophe Heeman, Julia Frodahl and Edison Woods, Baby Dee, Eric Hoffmann, Bianca Bob, Christine Donnelly, the late Bill Rice, playwrites Jim Nue and Charles Allcroft, actor/writter/director Keith McDermott, LARSEN and many fine others) span the spectrum from reggae & hip hop to torch and the avant garde.
She has written 3 volumes of prose, appeared in numerous plays, theater pieces, and films, and continues to tour extensively with pianist and co-composer Paul Wallfisch Of BOTANICA. She is currently residing in her beloved muse and hometown of New York, after a thirteen year residency in England, where she is adding to her extensive body of work. In 2006 she released ˜Songs from The Coalmine Canary' produced by Antony (of Antony and The Johnsons) and Joe Buedenholzer (Backworld) on Durtro/Jnana Records which includes her song 'Strange Love' which feature by LEVIS in their new 'Dangerous Liasons' campaign and which won the bronze award at Cannes in 2007 for best use of music in a commercial.
Paul Wallfisch and Annie's new cd of interpretations/re-works versions of classic and not so classic songs titled 'When Good Things Happen To Bad Pianos' is out now. After 5 European tours in the last 18 months, they are taking a break to record their new album of original material GENDERFULL to be released fall 2009.
Annie has had the recent pleasure of collaborating on projects with two of her
favorite artists. The first being 3 tracks recorded this past summer in Torino with the Italian avant lush landscape genius band LARSEN, which also features cello Goddess JULIA KENT on their new cd “La Fever Lit” which will be released by Important Records on November 2008,
for more information go to ?
www.larsen.to.it?
www.myspace.com/larsentoit
She also duets with the very wonderful MARC ALMOND on Charles Aznavour's 'Yesterday When I Was Young' on Marc's new 2 disc DVD /CD 'BLUEGATE FEILDS which was filmed this past spring at Wiltons Music Hall during their week of shows in Paul and her performed as part of Marc's evening of Sins, Songs, Torch and Romance, which also features CELINE, BABY DEE, MARTIN WATKINS, NEAL X, JOHN CONTRERAS & CARL HOLT.
For more info go to
http://www. marcalmond. co. uk/
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Annie has started a new series of paintings based on her two muses, New York and Mexico cities, and continues her God & Science and Sacred Heart series of peices. She is also resuming work on her autobiography which will be part 1 & 2 combined. There will be a '2nd Legally Jammin' the beats project she does w/ Khan Oral & Christian Jendreiko at some point. Paul and her will resume their tour of the world in bite sized pieces in spring 2009.
PS
Though this sight is maintained by the gorgeous Maude Swift, I open and read all correspondence personally. As were away more often then not I'm afraid my ability to respond personally is sketchy at best... if you have yet to recieve a reply please do no take my silence as lack of respect or appreciation. Know you are a blessing & I get much joy from your correspondence.
You gotta know I got love for ya....Annie
To download 'Songs From the Coalmine Canary from ITunes, click here:
To download 'When Good Things Happen to Bad Pianos' from Itunes, click here:
PSS We are in search of a booking agent for North America. Good suggestions/ contacts much appreciated.
Please message with any live photos you have of Annie or be an Absyntheeist and post them there for others to enjoy! Go to: http://groups.myspace.com/absyntheeism
Dear Annie, we are so proud that you we're with us. Thank you for the astonishing show! It's been amazing days we have spent together! A big hug from the entire FADE IN Team.
HEARTBREAKING...SUCH A KIND SPIRIT...AND GIFTED ARTIST
