Ana Laan

Using a multi-cultural method of international pop that discovers her singing in English, Spanish, French, and Swedish, often accompanying her own electronically looped voice, Ana Laan continues to be in comparison to singers as diverse as Björk, Bebel Gilberto, Juana Molina, as well as Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, amongst others. Delivered in Madrid, the girl of the Spanish literature teacher and an American mom, Laan spent the majority of her years as a child in Stockholm, Sweden, time for Spain to full her supplementary education and remaining to wait the College or university of Madrid, where she focused on English books. Pursuing her graduation, she started singing professionally, dealing with performers like David Broza, Javier Alvarez, Christina Rosenvinge, Sergio Dalma, Diego Vaallo and Jorge Drexler, amongst others. During this time period she also frequently documented for the Spanish indie lounge label Siesta, launching an record, Apocalypso, in 2002 beneath the name Rita Calypso. Laan after that turned in a far more contemplative path on her behalf debut record under very own name, Oregano, which made an appearance in 2004 and was co-produced by Leo Sidran. Contacting her design “Latin-Baltic divorce pop,” Laan documented a follow-up album in NY, Delicious chocolate & Roses (once again co-produced by Sidran), that was released in 2008.