Keren Ann

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Keren Ann (born Keren Ann Zeidel in Caesarea, Israel, on March 10, 1974) is a recording artist/singer/songwriter/producer based largely in Paris, New York and Israel. She plays guitar, piano and clarinet and engineers and writes choir and musical arrangements. She is descended from Russian Jews on her father's side and is Javanese and Dutch on her mother's. She lived in Israel and in the Netherlands until the age of 11, when her family moved to France. She retains her Dutch and Israeli citizenship.

In 2000 she began her solo career with La Biographie de Luka Philipsen — written with and produced by Benjamin Biolay, who also co-wrote and produced its follow-up, La Disparation (in return, she helped write his debut album, Rose Kennedy). The pair also wrote several songs for Henri Salvador's best-selling, prize-winning 2000 comeback album, Chambre avec Vue, including the hit "Jardin d'Hiver".

Her third album Not Going Anywhere was released worldwide 2003, but her American breakthrough came with its follow-up, Nolita (2004). Recorded in Paris and New York — it is named for Nolita, her neighborhood in lower Manhattan — it is sung half in French and half in English.

Lady & Bird is a collaboration with Barði Jóhannson, of the Icelandic group Bang Gang.

"The Isis Project" is a concept album that she wrote with Guy Chambers and was sung by Sophie Hunter.

Keren Ann's fifth solo album, the eponymous Keren Ann, will be released April 23rd, 2007 in Europe, and May 8, 2007 in the United States.

[edit] Trivia

Her song "L'Onde Amere" was featured on a 1st season episode of "Big Love" HBO series

Her song "Jardin d'Hiver" was featured on a 6th season episode of "6 feet under"

Her song "Not Going Anywhere" was featured on a second season episode of Grey's Anatomy.

Keren Ann sings on two remixed songs from Benjamin Biolay Remix EP--"Los Angeles" and "72 trombones avant la grande parade" which were taken from Biolay's album Rose Kennedy.