Keren Ann Zeidel, known professionally as Keren Ann, is an Israeli, French, and Dutch singer, songwriter, composer, producer, arranger, and sound engineer. She performs mainly in French and English, and she's based in Paris, Tel Aviv, and New York City. She plays guitar, piano, and clarinet.

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Keren Ann Zeidel (Hebrew: קרן אן זיידל; born 10 March 1974), known professionally as Keren Ann (קרן אן), is an Israeli, French, and Dutch singer, songwriter, composer, producer, arranger, and sound engineer. She performs mainly in French and English, and she's based in Paris, Tel Aviv, and New York City. She plays guitar, piano, and clarinet.\n

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Early life

Keren Ann Zeidel was born in Caesarea, Israel, to a Russian-Jewish father and a Dutch-Javanese mother. She lived in Israel and in the Netherlands until the age of 11, when her family moved to Paris.\n

Ann's mother converted to Judaism and as a result she considers herself \"absolutely Jewish\".\n

Career

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Keren Ann has released eight solo albums: La Biographie de Luka Philipsen (2000), La Disparition (2002), Not Going Anywhere (2003), Nolita (2005), Keren Ann (2007), 101 (2011), You're Gonna Get Love (2016) and Bleue (2019). Many of her songs have been covers of other artists, including Henri Salvador, Jane Birkin, Françoise Hardy, Rosa Passos, Jacky Terrasson, Emmanuelle Seigner, Benjamin Biolay and Anna Calvi. Her music has been featured in TV series including Grey's Anatomy, Six Feet Under and Big Love, and in movies including Love Me No More (2008). Her song \"Beautiful Day\" has been the sound of the SkyTeam campaign, and in 2008 her song \"Lay Your Head Down\" was the sync for the international H&M Spring commercial.\n

Keren Ann and Icelandic musician Barði Jóhannsson formed the musical duo Lady & Bird; the two released a self-titled studio album in 2003, as well as a live recording of their performance with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra in 2009. The two co-wrote the 2011 opera Red Waters; it was produced by the Opéra de Rouen and directed by Arthur Nauzyciel, and performed in four opera houses around France.\n

Keren Ann co-wrote Henri Salvador's 2000 album Chambre Avec Vue, and wrote the lyrics for Sophie Hunter's 2005 debut album, Isis Project, to music written by Guy Chambers. In 2008, Keren Ann composed, with Tibo Javoy, the entire sound design for the European TV channel Arte. She co-wrote and co-produced, with Doriand, Emmanuelle Seigner's 2010 album Dingue.\n

She contributed to the soundtrack of the French film Thelma, Louise et Chantal (2010), directed by Benoît Pétré, including cover versions of French songs from the 1960s. She also contributed six songs to the Israeli film Yossi (2012), directed by Eytan Fox, as well as appearing onscreen as herself, performing a music concert.\n

After the 7 October 2023, she claimed in a long interview that \"babies had their throat cut\" during the Hamas attack and ask support of French artists to Jewish artists and Israel.\n

Personal life

Keren Ann has Israeli, Dutch, and French citizenship. She is fluent in English, Hebrew, and French.\n

She married a Jewish man. She stated: \"Being in tune with one's origins is important\". In July 2012, Keren Ann gave birth to her first child, Nico.\n

Discography

Studio albums

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Collaborations and scores

Chambre Avec Vue with Henri Salvador at Source-Virgin France (2000)
Lady & Bird, with Bardi Johannsson at Labels (2003)
Isis Project with Guy Chambers and Sophie Hunter at Sleeper Music UK (2004)
ARTE New Sound with Tibo Javoy
La Ballade of Lady & Bird with Icelandic Symphonic Orchestra at EMI
Dingue for Emmanuelle Seigner with Doriand at Sony Music France
Thelma, Louise et Chantal original score
Red Waters, opera, with Bardi Johannsson (2011)
\"Soleil Bleu\" / Sylvie Vartan @ Sony Music France (2011)

TV soundtracks

Grey's Anatomy (\"Not Going Anywhere\")
SkyTeam advertisement (\"Beautiful Day\")
Six Feet Under (\"Jardin D'hiver\")
Big Love (\"L'onde Amere\")
The L Word (\"Do What I Do\") (Lady & Bird)
TGV advertisement (\"Malmo Lives\") (Lady & Bird)
H&M advertisement (\"Lay Your Head Down\")
Daewoo Motor Sales Iaan advertisement (\"Right Now & Right Here\")
Orange advertisement (\"Lay Your Head Down\")
Galia advertisement (\"Right Now & Right Here\")
Nurse Jackie (\"My Name is Trouble\")
Normal People (\"Strange Weather\")
Baby Reindeer (\"My Name is Trouble\")

References

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External links

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Official website
Interview, The Observer, 3 April 2011
\"A Clear View\", New Yorker profile by Sasha Frere-Jones

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Broadcast History