About Me
Born August 19th 1974, Anik, a french canadian, began her obsessive interest in music at a very young age, making up songs walking back from elementary school and living in an imaginary world almost all the time. She was a loner, like most musicians, but still attracted people towards her with her charismatic self, and enjoyed showing off her unknown talent by doing anything related to a stage, like dancing, acting, and then in high school came the bass guitar. So at the age of 15 years old, she decided to learn the bass. One reason why she chose that instrument was because her cousin got himself an electric guitar and also what made her fall for the bass was that cool, very low sound, like a chill-out, relax sound, and having a big crush on Duran Duran’s bass player helped a bit too!! So she started to take private bass lessons. Her music influences comes from those 80’s bands in the likes of Frankie goes to Hollywood, Mister Mister, Heart, Depeche mode, The Bangles, Blondie, and of course Duran Duran. Later on, a bit more heavier, learning the whole Def Leppard albums, Faith no more (her favourite band), Red Hot chilli Pepper, and those all girl bands, L7, the Lunachiks, Babes in Toyland, just to name a few. Her determination and pig headed personality is so much like one of her idol, MADONNA, that they could probalby be clones. Following high school, Anik went to College Lionel-Groulx in the city of Sainte-Therese (which is a surburb of Montreal in Canada) attending the law program in order to become an attorney. But after a year, music took over and she switched to the music program. She got accepted following the audition, where she played the song Sweet Child ‘o mine from Guns and Roses on the bass, which was her primary instrument. Secondary was piano and she also took opera signing lessons. A year of hard studying passed by, the American dream was boiling in her head therefore had her make the big move to Los Angeles in 1990, quitting music school. She joined her first all girl band in HOLLYWOOD called Justify Mary. After one year of struggling days in beautiful California, she came back to her hometown of Montreal to form many different bands, including Safire, an all girl cover band with whom she had the most trilling gig of playing in a male detention center in Cowansville, Quebec. But her goal was to do a lot more than cover songs, because her brain was going a hundred miles per hour writing her own stuff. So the obvious happened and she formed her own original band called Bloodstone with the guitarist from Safire, and for the first time took the front wheel as singer and bass player. In 1997, Bloodstone won the demo clip contest organised by the French Canadian music channel called Musique Plus, which gave her the opportunity of filming a video with one of her song. Then came the band Pandora, where she got to play at the Canadian Music Week Festival in Toronto, performing at the Bovine Sex Club. This vicious blonde has built up amazing confidence by performing uncounted numerous shows, and her versatility comes from playing with many different styles of bands. Dedicated and professional, her favourite hang out is on a stage, where she can free herself. Her ability to compose comes from the habit of writing poems and putting everything on paper, like a private journal. With the music parts, she tries out different melodies, creates riffs and rhythm with usually the few chords she happens to know on the acoustic guitar. The process of writing a song is something that comes natural for her and it becomes a therapy. She still plays with Pandora as singer and bassist, with whom she cherishes the same goal, the same dream. Currently practicing and planning their big break, they are ready to kick ass!
