Anjani
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Anjani Thomas |
| Born | (1959年07月10日) July 10, 1959 (age 65) Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, U.S. |
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| Instrument | Piano |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Labels | Columbia |
| Website | anjani-music |
Anjani Thomas (born July 10, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist, best known for her work with singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, as well as Carl Anderson, Frank Gambale, and Stanley Clarke. She became a solo artist in 2000.
Life
[edit ]Anjani was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, where she trained in guitar, piano and voice. She attended Berklee College of Music for a year then moved to New York City to a pursue a music career. She performed in jazz clubs before meeting producer John Lissauer, who hired her to provide backup vocals on Leonard Cohen's influential song "Hallelujah" from Various Positions . Anjani went on to tour with Cohen in 1985, as his keyboardist and backup vocalist, and worked with Cohen for many years after, lending her talents to I'm Your Man , The Future , Dear Heather and Old Ideas .[1]
Anjani launched a solo career with Anjani in 2000 followed by The Sacred Names in 2001 – an ode to the Aramaic, Greek and Hebrew names of God.[2] In 2006, Cohen contributed lyrics and production talents to Anjani's music and arrangements for Blue Alert on Columbia Records. The song "Blue Alert" was used in a 2007 Old Navy TV spot.[3]
In 2011, Anjani began working on a follow-up to Blue Alert , which continued the collaboration with Leonard Cohen on three new songs. The new record, I Came to Love , was released in download-only form in July 2014.[4]
Discography
[edit ]- Anjani (Little Fountain Music, 2000)
- The Sacred Names (Little Fountain Music, 2001)
- Blue Alert (Columbia, 2006)
- I Came to Love (2014)
References
[edit ]- ^ "Anjani Biography". Archived from the original on February 21, 2014. Retrieved February 16, 2010.
- ^ Burger, Jeff (April 1, 2014). Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters. Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-61374-758-2.
- ^ ALAN LIGHT (May 21, 2006). "In Anjani Thomas, Leonard Cohen Finds a New Voice". The New York Times.
- ^ "Anjani | Musings".
External links
[edit ]- Official site
- "Trusting the Force: Into the Heart of Blue Alert" interview at Music Box, April 2007
- "The Story of C" at Leonard Cohen's site
- 1959 births
- Living people
- Musicians from Honolulu
- Writers from Honolulu
- 20th-century American women singers
- 20th-century American singers
- 20th-century American pianists
- American women singer-songwriters
- American women jazz singers
- American jazz singers
- American jazz pianists
- American women pianists
- 20th-century American singer-songwriters
- 21st-century American women musicians
- Singer-songwriters from Hawaii