Annie Robinette

What can we say about Little Annie Bynum? From early on, she's had artistic urges bursting out of her in all directions. As a child she rapidly became an accomplished ballet dancer, could sit down at a piano and pick out just about anything by ear, was a quick study on the guitar and banjo when she felt like giving them a try, and could create intricately detailed pencil drawings of anything she saw. In her late teens and early twenties, she started singing lead in several cover bands in the Raleigh-Durham NC area. All it took was one audition, and her clear, powerful vocal style landed her the front position in bands playing everything from pop, rock to southern blues.
Annie studied fine arts at UNC Greensboro, and became a freelance portrait artist and illustrator. She also freelanced in marketing, graphic design and layout, producing many campaigns for businesses in North Carolina. At the same time she worked as a professional model and actress, which landed her jobs for clients like Calvin Klein, Liz Claiborne, and Levi's. Annie had numerous roles in national and regional TV ads as well as principle roles in corporate and independent film. And when she took a sudden notion to, Annie dove into the community theatre scene in Raleigh, wowing audiences in both musical and dramatic theatre, being nominated twice, and winning once, Best Actress of the Year.
After becoming the mother of two daughters, Annie began writing songs, playing bass and sharing the lead vocals in an all female alternative rock band. But this endeavor was short-lived, as Annie moved back to her hometown, Bristol, TN in 1996 to marry the "one that got away" from many years back, Paul Robinette, who owns and operates a multimedia production company. This union added two more children to the mix. The stresses of dealing with divorce, remarriage, custody, raising four kids, and the unexpected deaths of her father and brother, would have been enough to squelch most people's creative impulses. But Annie instead found artistic inspiration in these events and returned to song writing and performing.
Some of her songs come from her own life experiences. Others come from her empathic observations of other people's lives. Her lyrics are direct and visual, intelligent and relevant. Her sound is uniquely her own, delivered with power, emotion, and intensity. The music is sophisticated without being complicated has as firm acoustic texture with just enough electricity. Her voice is extraordinarily powerful and still easy on the ear. The musicality is clean. It's polished without losing the raw connection with the performance. Her debut CD, "Last July", produced and engineered with her husband at Robinette Productions, is a potent display of her gifts, and another milestone in the continuing journey of her creative pursuits.
Bio by Randy Crawford and Paul Robinette

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