Juliet Annerino
Juliet Annerino
Los Angeles, CA
Electronica/Dance / Neo-soul / Jazz/Lounge
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About
Juliet Annerino
Writer/Composer/Performer/Director
Writer/Composer/Performer/Director
Hi, and thanks for reading a bit about me! It's a wild ride and it's ALL true...enjoy!
I started as a jazz singer in Chicago, moved to San Francisco to work with the former manager of the Go-Go's who hooked me up in the studio to record with Fidel Castro's former sound-engineer. He was awful, so I ended up using only the rough mixes on my record and firing my manager. Finding the San Franciscan non-bathing, armpit-hair-sporting people, pretentious and shallow, I finally moved to the land I love,
of shameless and shallow, Los Angeles.
Here in LA, I started producing/composing and directing the cabaret show, Societe Noire, featuring various one-act pieces written especially for smaller club settings. I involved talented people from other arts, which was a real thrill, since my poet friends would get to see great lounge comics, whose fans got to see great music acts, whose friends got to see great performance artists whose fans got to see great puppeteers whose puppets got to see great poets and so on and so on! The whole thing just turned into one
big and expanding family of eccentric weirdos! (Totally hot)
After getting this mysterious, surprise and yes, seemingly random e-mail from the food and beverage manager of a hotel in Cairo, Egypt, I followed up on the message to find that it was indeed quite legit! I negotiated my contract on line with the manager of the hotel and from March of 2001 until the following June, I sang at the lounge at the Intercontinental Hotel on the Nile. Incidentally, I never did actually physically sign a contract, though I was paid weekly in American dollars. Some of the Lebanese people I met there had told me, "Ah...never trust an Arab!", yet I had, and they were honest with me and paid me better than I'd ever been paid for singing anywhere in the world ~ with only a verbal agreement, made between people thousands of miles apart, in two very different countries! I learned not to assume terrible things about any one group of people (culture, religion, race, etc.) and that you MUST be there to ever really know Truth...
I returned to the States and began to develop a documentary video piece called, "The Dream", which was featured in the New York Film Festival. It's about what it means to be an "American", from a cultural perspective and was inspired by my time in Cairo and my return home. I noted with a pang of bittersweetness that every time I told an Egyptian that I was indeed from "The States", they would get this misty, far-away look in their eyes and say, wistfully, "Ah, the Dream..!".
(That always nearly killed me!)
I returned to the States and began to develop a documentary video piece called, "The Dream", which was featured in the New York Film Festival. It's about what it means to be an "American", from a cultural perspective and was inspired by my time in Cairo and my return home. I noted with a pang of bittersweetness that every time I told an Egyptian that I was indeed from "The States", they would get this misty, far-away look in their eyes and say, wistfully, "Ah, the Dream..!".
(That always nearly killed me!)
May of 2006, I wrote, directed and performed in the theatrical/musical multi-media production, "The Lords Lover" in Hollywood. It includes, 7 vignettes mostly funny, but some philosophical, all about Love/Romance/Sex and God/Spirituality. Kind of like "Societe Noir, but with a main plot running through and a surprise ending
for people who liked movies like "The Sixth Sense" and "Momento"... What a fun show to be a part of!
The production is now being considered for Off-Broadway in New York City. (I love NYC, too!)
This past June/July I set up a mini-tour of Amsterdam and Paris for myself playing clubs there with some great European musicians. I found the club-owners much cooler in both cities, than in LA. Also found the Dutch to be not too friendly, despite their "tolerant" policy... but the French really friendly! Not true about what you hear of them being snooty. They are very warm, respectful and fun-loving people.
for people who liked movies like "The Sixth Sense" and "Momento"... What a fun show to be a part of!
The production is now being considered for Off-Broadway in New York City. (I love NYC, too!)
This past June/July I set up a mini-tour of Amsterdam and Paris for myself playing clubs there with some great European musicians. I found the club-owners much cooler in both cities, than in LA. Also found the Dutch to be not too friendly, despite their "tolerant" policy... but the French really friendly! Not true about what you hear of them being snooty. They are very warm, respectful and fun-loving people.
(Just go ahead and speak a little French to them which is beautiful anyway!)
I signed single-song publishing deals for two of my electronica songs, "Jones" and
"Dance Between the Raindrops". Hoping to get the tunes licensed for film and TV now...
My song, "Jones" was featured on the compilation CD of dance music, "Dance Out Loud" September 2007. And my lounge song, "Dance Between the Raindrops" will be featured on the new compilation CD of world music by W.O.A. called "The Chill-out Zone", released December 2007 available on itunes.
Just came out of the recording studio working with John X, my sheep-loving engineer,
"Dance Between the Raindrops". Hoping to get the tunes licensed for film and TV now...
My song, "Jones" was featured on the compilation CD of dance music, "Dance Out Loud" September 2007. And my lounge song, "Dance Between the Raindrops" will be featured on the new compilation CD of world music by W.O.A. called "The Chill-out Zone", released December 2007 available on itunes.
Just came out of the recording studio working with John X, my sheep-loving engineer,
on my new album "Scenes From a Life on Fire".
Currently on tour in Cairo, Egypt, Dubai and now in Beirut, Lebanon, where I am performing my original material from my new record, at clubs a d venues here with the local musicians!
ps: I dedicate "New Revolution" to the only man brave enough to stand for peace (HE would brought all US troops OUT OF IRAQ!) and Freedom (No internet restrictions, no patriot act BS, no more IRS breathing down our backs, Cannabis for those who want it, no billionaire bankers' bail out, etc!) RON PAUL for president 2008!
Let the New Artists' Revolution begin!
More information at:
www.JulietAnnerino.com
www.MySpace.com/JazKitten
Myspace.com/Julietandthetorchensemble
www.TheLordsLover.com
Myspace.com/Julietandthetorchensemble
www.TheLordsLover.com
Feel free to contact me at
TheLordsLover@gmail.com
TheLordsLover@gmail.com
Discography:
Crushed Velvet 2002
Songs From "The Lord's Lover" 2006
"Lit: Scenes From a Life on Fire" (coming in 2008)
Crushed Velvet 2002
Songs From "The Lord's Lover" 2006
"Lit: Scenes From a Life on Fire" (coming in 2008)
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