Keren Ann

Keren Ann Zeidel Hebrew קרן אן זיידל born 10 March 1974 known professionally as Keren Ann קרן אן is an Israeli 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 Keren Ann Zeidel was born in Caesarea Israel to a RussianJewish father and a DutchJavanese mother She lived in Israel and in the Netherlands until the age of 11 when her family moved to Paris Keren Ann has released eight solo albums La Biographie de Luka Philipsen 2000 La Disparition 2002 Not Going Anywhere 2003 Nolita 2005 Keren Ann 2007 101 2011 Youre Gonna Get Love 2016 and Bleue 2019 Many of her songs have been covered by 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 Greys Anatomy Six Feet Under and Big Love and in movies including Love Me No More 2008 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 HM Spring commercial Keren Ann and Icelandic musician Barði Jóhannsson formed the musical duo Lady Bird the two released a selftitled studio album in 2003 as well as a live recording of their performance with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra in 2009 The two cowrote the 2011 opera Red Waters it was produced by the Opéra de Rouen and directed by Arthur Nauzyciel and performed in four opera houses around France Keren Ann cowrote Henri Salvadors 2000 album Chambre Avec Vue and wrote the lyrics for Sophie Hunters 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 cowrote and coproduced with Doriand Emmanuelle Seigners 2010 album Dingue She contributed to the soundtrack of the French film Thelma Louise et Chantal 2010 directed by Benoît Pétré including cover versions of French songs from the 1960s She also contributed six songs to the Israeli film Yossi 2012 directed by Eytan Fox as well as appearing onscreen as herself performing a music concert 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 In July 2012 Keren Ann gave birth to her first child Nico Source Article Keren Ann from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30