Ani Kyd


Ani Kyd is a Canadian, Vancouver-based musician, actor, and life coach.

Career

Kyd has worked with musicians including Meegan Bradfield, Lisa Wagner, Gene Hoglan, and Byron Stroud. She has played guitar for THOR as well as having Jello Biafra produce and perform back up vocals for her debut album, Evil Needs Candy Too, which was released on Alternative Tentacles in 2005. From 2005 to 2007 she sang in the two lead singer metal/rock band Approach The Throne, with Chris "Val" Valagao as the other singer. Throughout Kyd's professional career she has sung back up vocals for Paul Hyde, Sandy Scofield, Strapping Young Lad, and the Devin Townsend Band. She has also been on various compilations including Trooper tribute and a Green Party album featuring Bruce Cockburn and Bill Henderson, Joe Keithley, and Bif Naked.
She was nominated for favourite local female in the Georgia Straight Music Awards 2000. She acted alongside Jello Biafra in the movie The Widower. She has played shows with Our Lady Peace, Bif Naked, Paul Hyde, Strapping Young Lad, DOA, the Melvins, and Jello Biafra, and performed approximately 500 live shows from 1986 to 2010 including November 29, 2003, at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, British Columbia, with THOR and D.O.A. and on May 1, 2004, at BC Place, Vancouver for. Kyd has been a member of over 12 bands from 1986 to 2010. She has done four major Canadian and US tours, including a 40-city tour playing guitar for Thor.
Ani Kyd was turned into a cartoon character in the Futurama/Simpsons comic - issue #2 of 2, 2002, "Infinitely Secret Crossover Crisis" page 2.

Music videos

Discography

Albums

Evil Needs Candy Too
  1. Rejoyce
  2. Creepy Feeling
  3. Taste My Lips
  4. My 1st Kill
  5. Fingerpainting
  6. Six Californian Dollars
  7. 13
  8. Left Holding the Bag
  9. Erase
  10. Left Right Left
  11. So Far
  12. Lost
  13. Stranger Things
  14. Silver Cage
  15. Hardway Home
  16. The Involuntary Admittance of Jack Ryd. By Michael Kyd
Ani Kyd Blues Experience
  1. 2 Guns
  2. Alone is for me
  3. Reckless Soul
  4. Run and Hyde
  5. Dirty Blues
  6. Miss V
  7. Simply You
  8. Waste of Time
  9. Why do you love me
  10. One step behind

    Compilations

Grrrls with Guitars Compilation Volume 1 Grrrls with Guitars Records also featuring Kinnie Starr, Sandy Scofield
  • "The Sun In My Eyes"
Shot Spots on Visionary Records. A Trooper tribute album also featuring DOA, Real McKenzies, SNFU
  • "Boy With A Beat"
The Green Revolution also featuring Jello Biafra, Randy Bachman, Bruce Cockburn, Bif Naked, and Joe Keithley