Anjani
"Anjani has always been known as a great singer, a musician's singer," says Leonard Cohen, who co-wrote and produced Anjani's recently released CD Blue Alert. "She's known for this impeccable sense of tone and the ability to stack vocals one on top of the other, but this voice that she was showing here was a completely different voice that had moved somehow from the throat to the heart." Released in spring 2006, Blue Alert is Anjani's major label debut. Blue Alert is an intoxicating marriage of Cohen's lyrics with Anjani's musical compositions. Her smoldering vocals and haunting piano styling envelop the listener into the masterful web that these two artists create together. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Anjani trained in guitar, piano and voice before attending Berklee College of Music. Anjani went on to play the jazz club circuit in Manhattan, where she was introduced to Leonard Cohen in 1984, by producer John Lissauer. Her haunting background vocals are heard on Cohen's original recording of his signature opus, "Hallelujah." Anjani joined Cohen's Various Positions World Tour as a keyboardist/vocalist, and she sang on Cohen's subsequent albums, I'm Your Man (1988), The Future (1992), and Dear Heather (2004).
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