Billboard charting vocalist Anna Danes makes her NYC club debut at Club Bonafide Saturday, September 16 at 7:30 PM. According to press notes, the singer is “discovering a new life, fresh purpose and her true inner voice after years of keeping up appearances in an unfulfilled existence she called a ‘gilded cage,’ and is truly flying high.” The emerging jazz vocalist and songwriter captures the inspirational philosophy that continues to propel her forward in the opening lines from “Find Your Wings,” the piano-vocal ballad that is the title track and centerpiece to her new full-length album. In a lyric that Miss Danes says is speaking both to her soul and to millions of women who seek the courage to liberate themselves and follow their deeper creative passions, she sings, “When you feel that you don’t fit/You’re not understood one bit/Find Your Wings/You can rise above the fray/Sing what you can’t seem to say/Find Your Wings.”
The Polish-born, San Diego-based multi-faceted artist and advocate for passion-pursuing and dream-chasing has caught on quickly. Upon its release, Find Your Wings debuted at #1 on the iTunes jazz chart. Soon thereafter, it placed on two Billboard charts, reaching #13 on the Traditional Jazz chart and in the Top 25 on the Jazz Albums chart. The collection, a follow-up to her well received 2013 debut Longing, was produced by Dave Darling (Brian Setzer, Tom Waits, Jack Johnson, Motley Crue) and recorded with top L.A. session musicians in Capitol Studios A, where greats like Frank Sinatra and Nat “King” Cole once held court.
Anna Danes has used music as a springboard to become a motivational speaker, budding author, noted philanthropist and live show producer in the San Diego area, recently creating a “vision board” for the way she wants her career to unfold. None of these hopes and dreams seemed remotely possible, she recalls, just a few years ago, when her marriage was breaking down and the onetime stay-at-home mom was trying to literally find her wings and start over at the age of 43. Recording her second album in the place where the legends worked their timeless magic was the ultimate confirmation that she had succeeded in re-inventing herself while sharing those long-latent musical gifts.
“Find Your Wings is about me having found my passion and purpose and being set free on this exciting new path of music, which allowed me to leave my cage of self-doubt,” Anna adds. “I had a cushy lifestyle and could have taken the path of least resistance and stayed in it. Five years ago I was a pale shadow of myself, dressed nicely for all the world to see, but empty inside.”
The six standards on Find Your Wings are all “dear friends” already in her repertoire – “I Will Wait For You,” “It’s Crazy,” “I Wanna Be Around”/”Cry Me a River,” “That’s All” and “In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning.” The six originals are “powerful snapshots” of her life from around the time she wrote them. “The Voice,” co-written with Cindy Alexander, is about life at the end of her marriage, while “Mr. OMG,” co-penned with Harris, reflects on life after separation. The others – “Long Distance” (co-written with Darling), “See You in L.A.” (with Alexander) and “I Love You,” a hypnotic a capella piece written by Anna that closes the set – are life with a new love and falling in love for the first time.
In addition to her career as a singer, Anna produces private and public events as well as the very successful Jazz on Cedros concert series in San Diego that has celebrated sold-out shows since its inception in 2014. She is currently writing her first book – also titled Find Your Wings – which chronicles her journey from Poland to Canada and Southern California, through her careers as a lawyer and business manager for her husband, and the unfolding of her musical artistry. She is also an avid philanthropist for causes that support women, children and the arts, with a seat on the board of the San Diego Symphony.
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Club Bonafide is located at 212 East 52 St, New York, NY (646) 918-6189
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