Anna Stubbs

Vocalist, composer

Having grown up in Leigh-on-sea via Seattle and California, Anna’s musical style is multi-faceted and full of surprises. She has been immersed in 70s rock, folk and disco, 80s pop, house and electro, and continued through to the present day listening to everything else.

During the 90s she studied as a jazz singer and pianist where she earned a first class degree at the Leeds College of Music. She finished her studies at the Guildhall School of Music studying with the country’s finest and gaining a Post Graduate in Jazz and Studio music.

Her main project is her band Brotherly which she runs with partner and Zero 7 bassist Robin Mullarkey. They released their nu-jazz album One Sweet Life to much critical acclaim in May 2007. She has releases on Compost Records with Rima, Hospital Records on Outpatients, and Bitasweet with Brotherly’s underground smash “Put It Out”.

She is currently signed and managed by Music at Monumental. With Brotherly and her previous beats’n’string section band ‘Ana’, she has played at venues all over the UK headlining at Ronnie Scott’s, Jazz Cafe, Mean Fiddler, Borderline, Spitz, Barbican Hall, The Vortex and the London Jazz Festival. Brotherly were nominated for Radio One’s Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide ‘session of the year’ a set at the BBC’s Maida Vale Studios in 2006.

Anna also performs regularly with her jazz quartet, singing standards in the style of Nancy Wilson, Aretha Franklin and Sarah Vaughan.

From 1999-2006 she was Lecturer of Voice at the Leeds College of Music (Jazz). Anna feels teaching singers and musicians of all levels and ages to be a vital part of her musicianship and well-being. Anna currently lives and runs her studio in Crouch End, North London, with her partner Robin and son Lucas. For more information, recordings, reviews and pictures visit www.myspace.com/brotherly