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Annie Haslam Biography
Annie Haslam is an English progressive rock vocalistt, songwriter and visual artist. Annie is best known for her 5 octave voice and lead vocalist for English Classical Rock band Renaissance.. She was born in Bolton, Lancashire., a cotton mill town. As a child Annie wanted to be a nurse, a ballet dancer and later and more realisticically, a fashion designer. She became a fashion student in Cornwall England, and ended up working for several clothing designers in London before ending up with a Saville Row tailor where she admits she learned much more than being in the fashion houses!
Then came the music…
There was already music flowing through her family in the form of her Father ‘George’ who had been an amateur comedian singer (he was a tenor) and Brother Michael, who was managed by Beatles manager Brian Epstein. He toured with the Beatles on their Christmas package tour in the early 60’s.
It was much later when Annie realised that she too was a singer.
She began studying under opera singer Sybil Knight in 1970 and developed her extraordinary five-octave vocal range. In 1971, she became the lead singer of Renaissance after answering an ad in The Melody Maker music magazine and auditioning for the band in Surrey. The rest is history and there came some groundbreaking music from the band that would come a very long way in such a short space of time. ! From playing small clubs to Carnegie Hall and later The Royal Albert Hall in the space of 5 years.
In 1977, she began her solo career with her album Annie in Wonderland, produced by Roy Wood who played most of the instruments, and who also duetted with her on one track ‘I Never Believed in Love’. The album was a new venture for Annie, Roy taking her into different realms of music from jazz to pop to classical!
Annie also performed ‘Reaching Out’ with the London Symphony Orchestra on Intergalactic Touring Band album. She has since released eight studio albums, three of which were released through her own record label, White Dove Records. The highlight of that CD collection being; ‘Still Life’ with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Louis Clark. A semi—classical masterpiece.
In 1989 Anne secured a record contract with Epic records and released a slelf titled album produced by Larry Fast. Annie co-wrote a song with Larry called Celestine and also a she wrote a song with Peter Bliss called ‘One Love.’ Justin Hayward was a guest on ‘The Angels Cry,’ a song that he had written originally for Agnetha from ABBA.
She has also collaborated with Steve Howe, Raphael Rudd, Pete Townshend, Phil Collins, Justin Hayward, Tony Visconti and the Carl Perkins family to name a few.
The ‘Live’ Studio Concert, recorded in Philadelphia in 1997 was Annie’s first solo DVD release..
Annie released an EP called Night and Day, her first solo recording for some years, with Welsh rock band Magenta in 2006. The song was specially written for her by the band.
Annie who had recently become a painter contributed the artwork for the EP, the art inspired by a story told to her by Christina from Magenta!
Then came the Art….
This came out of the blue, a complete surprise, which has grown intensely from 2002, when she first started.
Her paintings grace the walls of homes across the world, as far off as China, Russia, Japan, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, England, USA, Canada, South America, and Italy.As an artist, Annie had three pieces of art shown in the Florence Biennale in Florence Italy in December 2005.
In addition to Gallery showings she has four hand painted guitars in various Hard Rock Cafes and was commissioned by Martin Guitars to paint one of their Dreadnought acoustic guitars which is now displayed in the company’s guitar museum in Nazareth, PA.
They also commissioned her to paint an acoustic guitar for the NAMM Music Convention, LA in January 2007.
Apart from keeping her art gallery stocked with new paintings online, Annie paints commissioned electric violins for Wood's Violins. Mark Wood who owns the company is lead violinist with Trans Siberian Orchestra.
Annie currently resides in Central Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA and along with fellow Renaissance bandmate Michael Dunford has reformed ‘Renaissance’ and is currently recording and touring the world.
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