Annie Alice grew up surrounded by music. Her grandfather was always singing, her dad would swap bedtime stories for a sing-song and her mum’s beautiful voice often filled the stage. Music wasn’t just in the background, it was a way of life.
From the start, Annie marched to her own rhythm. While other kids followed the latest trends, she was lost in the sounds of Nina Simone, Buddy Holly, The Beatles & Led Zeppelin, anything with soul and groove. At four years old she wrote her first song (about brushing your teeth & eating apples) and soon started piano lessons, only to fail her Grade 2 exam. Her teacher told her she was “unteachable” because she couldn’t read music, yet still called her his most musical student.
Annie learned to play by ear and by heart, picking things up from the people and sounds around her. She’d climb trees as a kid with her headphones on, listening to Guns N’ Roses and dreaming about music. Later she trained at the Italia Conti Academy, but she didn’t quite fit the mould there either and was advised to stop writing new songs because "No one would know them!” Of course, she kept writing anyway.
With a guitar in hand, Annie travelled and performed in bars across Spain, Laos, and Australia, learning from every stage and every stranger who became a mentor along the way. Her music grew out of these experiences, soulful, raw, and shaped by life as much as by melody.
Now back home in Essex, Annie has finally written, orchestrated and recorded the EP she’s been meaning to make for years. It’s a humble, heartfelt collection that weaves together everything she’s lived and loved and even loathed. “It’s been a long time coming,” she says, “but I hope it was worth the wait.”
With a career spanning intimate venues to festival stages, Annie crafts songs that feel like conversations, honest, melodic, and rooted in life experience.