“Writing to me is breath. Without it I cannot “be.†I have no choice but to honor it’s presence. As I my pave my way through this artist’s life, I will savor moments, narrating what I hold in my mind, body and soul. If I am able to touch even one person along the way, I’ve done my part in this blink of a life.â€
Anika Paris is a platinum selling singer/songwriter and recipient of ASCAP’s Abe Oleman Scholarship from the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Nashville’s City Song Festival, and ASCAP Pop Award. Her songs have been featured in films and soundtracks for Warner Brothers, Miramax and Tri-Star Motion pictures, on television's Lifetime, MTV, HBO... She is the only female composer for Warner Bro's Telepictures with music on; Ellen De Generous, Tyra, Extra, TMZ. Anika has international success with songs climbing to number one in Canada and top five in Thailand and Sweden. She has written for artists on BMG, Warner Brothers, Universal, Columbia and worked with notable producers Narada Michael Walden (Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin), Jose Quintana (Ricky Martin, Santana), Dean Landon (Roch Voisine, Deanna Johnston) and Chris Landon (Jennifer Paige, Taylor Dayne). She’s been the musical guest on TV’s Late Night with Craig Kilborn, Latin Explosion (with Christina Aguilera and Ricky Martin), General Hospital, Celebrity Justice, and has had the honor of sharing the stage with legendary Stevie Wonder, John Mayer and John Legend. A published poet, Anika's work has appeared in numerous periodicals including, Chance of a Ghost (Helicon Nine Editions) Poetic Voices Without Borders (Gival Press), and the Kansas City Star among others. Most recently, Anika composed for an Off Broadway musical The Judas Tree, by Mary Fengar Gail which premiered in New York City April 2008.
The daughter of a classical conductor, Anika Paris spent her childhood traveling to whatever city dad's baton waved. Along the way, she got a great deal of stage experience performing in musicals and opera's through-out Europe and the United States while her dad conducted. Starting piano lessons at age seven, Paris was a quick self-starter. Though her musical career was born as a personal therapy during adolescence. "I was rather shy, and spent a lot of time in the piano room playing and writing songs for hours." By college Paris was playing in bands and performing in theater. In New York she played in the band Double Exposure with her brother, producer/writer/drummer Paul Peress. Coast-hopping to L.A., she met Dean Landon, the man who would eventually produce and co-write songs with her on her debut album and Anika landed a record deal!
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