Keren Ann


Keren Ann Zeidel, known professionally as Keren Ann, is a French and Dutch singer, songwriter, composer, producer, and engineer based largely in Paris, Tel Aviv, and New York City. She plays guitar, piano, and clarinet. She also engineers and writes choir and musical arrangements.
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Early life

Keren Ann Zeidel was born in Caesarea, Israel, to a Russian-Jewish father and a Dutch-Javanese mother. She lived in Israel and in the Netherlands until the age of 11, when her family moved to Paris.
Ann's mother converted to Judaism and as a result she considers herself "absolutely Jewish".

Career

Keren Ann has released eight solo albums: La Biographie de Luka Philipsen, La Disparition, Not Going Anywhere, Nolita, Keren Ann, 101, You're Gonna Get Love and Bleue. Many of her songs have been covers of other artists, including Henri Salvador, Jane Birkin, Francoise Hardy, Rosa Passos, Jacky Terasson, Emmanuelle Seigner, Benjamin Biolay and Anna Calvi. Her music has been featured in TV series including Grey's Anatomy, Six Feet Under and Big Love, and in movies including Love Me No More. Her song "Beautiful Day" has been the sound of the "Skyteam" campaign, and in 2008 her song "Lay Your Head Down" was the synch for the international H&M Spring commercial.
Keren Ann and Icelandic musician Barði Jóhannsson formed the musical duo "Lady & Bird"; the two released a self-titled studio album in 2003, as well as a live recording of their performance with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra in 2009. The two co-wrote the 2011 opera Red Waters; it was produced by the Opéra de Rouen and directed by, and performed in four opera houses around France.
Keren Ann co-wrote Henri Salvador's 2000 album Chambre Avec Vue, and wrote the lyrics for Sophie Hunter's 2005 debut album Isis Project, to music written by Guy Chambers. In 2008, Keren Ann composed, with Tibo Javoy, the entire sound design for the European TV channel Arte. She co-wrote and co-produced, with Doriand, Emmanuelle Seigner's 2010 album Dingue.
She contributed to the soundtrack of the French film Thelma, Louise et Chantal, directed by, including cover versions of French songs from the 1960s. She also contributed six songs to the Israeli film Yossi, directed by Eytan Fox, as well as appearing onscreen as herself, performing a music concert.
After 7 October 2023, she claimed that "babies had their throat cut" during the attack and ask support from French artists for French Jewish artists and Israel.

Personal life

Although she has lived and recorded mostly in France and the US, Keren Ann retains her Dutch and Israeli citizenship. She is fluent in English, Hebrew, and French.
She married a Jewish man. She stated: "Being in tune with one's origins is important". In July 2012, Keren Ann gave birth to her first child, Nico.

Discography

Collaborations and scores

Chambre Avec Vue with Henri Salvador at Source-Virgin France Lady and Bird, with Bardi Johannsson at Labels Isis Project with Guy Chambers and Sophie Hunter at Sleeper Music UK ARTE New Sound with Tibo JavoyLa Ballade of Lady & Bird with Icelandic Symphonic Orchestra at EMIDingue for Emmanuelle Seigner with Doriand at Sony Music FranceThelma, Louise et Chantal original scoreRed Waters, opera, with Bardi Johannsson

TV soundtracks

Grey's Anatomy
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