Little Annie

Artist Description

Little Annie aka  Annie Bandez,  a smokey contralto, raconteur and restless spirit has spent the last 30 years creating  a body of work that would take much more space than available to list. Having stepped onto her first stage at the age of 16 the Chanteuse/lyricist, self-taught painter, multimedia artist, and ordain interfaith minister, her music like her life, has defied categorization, limitation, restrictions. Annie’s  has recorded  with vanguard figures of late twentieth century music such as Kid Congo Powers, Adrian Sherwood, Wolfgang Press, Crass, the ON-U Sound Stable,  Current 93, Nurse With Wound, Bim Sherman, Coil,  Anthony Hegarty, Marc Almond and many fine others) A prolific songwriter she has written for the late Bim Sherman, Paul Oakenfold and most recently Living Color. She has authored  three volumes of prose, appeared in numerous plays,  theater pieces and films. 2007 saw the release of successful SONGS FROM THE COAL MINE CANARY produced by Antony (of The Johnsons) and Joe Buedenholzer (Backworld) for Dutro Jnana/Southern.

WHEN GOOD THINGS HAPPEN TO BAD PIANOS followed and saw the creative relationship between Annie’s with Paul Wallfisch (who dubbed Annie as Queen of torture Soul) finally made legit and put on record. The duo have spent much of their 11 year collaboration touring extensively bringing European audiences to tears. Annie and Paul gave birth to their second album GENDERFUL which has just been released by Southern Records in the UK and garnering much critical acclaim.

Annie and the wondrous Baby Dee are presently collaborating on material for a future release and will be performing together tonight at Joe's Pub.