Review Fix Exclusive: Anna Renee Interview: More Than Just a Musician

She sits there wearing a long, flowy summer dress, with short hair fighting to touch the back of her neck. In her own way, Anna Renee is fierce. But as soon as her pink and green nails are exposed, so is her personality. Bubbly with a touch of mystery, she has something different.

Growing up, her father worked in the oil industry, so moving certainly wasn’t a problem for her. Changing careers was kind of a given.

She learned to adapt adapt quickly. Only a year after she hit her head in a rock and suffer a seizure while acting in a student film, she’s got her heart set on becoming a singer.

“It’s different with singing, even if nothing happens with my music, I’ll always have that song,” said Renee. “With acting, you can put a lot of hard work into it and if they don’t like you, you have nothing.”

Renee’s future acting was more secure, but once the executive producer of “Destroy the Alpha Gammas,” a production that she was a part of heard her sing, he offered to produce her songs, for free. She didn’t see it coming, but she knew that it was an offer she couldn’t pass up on. She says that one day, she’ll go back to acting, but for now she’s embracing this opportunity that was given to her. With three singles already available and an EP on the way, she’s ready to truly focus on her new, but not so new craft.

She’s a woman of many talents and tastes; One da she’d like to sing with Pharrell as well as Avici, which are two completely different musicians and that says a lot about who she is.

“I had a dream that I was standing in line for ice-cream and Pharrell was right next to me,” said Renee. “Then my cat woke me up. I’ve never been so mad at her. He was about to listen to my music.”

Although her talents are more artsy, she’s also spiritual. Yoga is also one of the activities she likes to do to maintain balance. In all three career choices — writer, actor or musician, without a balance neither of them would work. Because of her open tastes and diverse talents, she’s able to promote herself and be more than the ordinary musician.

“I believe in energy. I practiced Buddhism but I don’t really think of it as a religion, I think about it as love,” said Renee. “I think about the power of thought, manifestation and secrecy. I love the patterns that I find. I feel like, if I look for something, I will find it; and I like to live in a world where I believe in magic. I like living in a world where mystic things exist.”

Because of all the moving around, she was able to grow and see things from a different perspective. Even though she say she’s strong, she still manages to keep the ‘child’ inside of her.

She also has a unique personality and her upcoming single, ‘Pendulum’ talks about that. It refers a lot to her uncle and how similar they are. So by talking about him, in a way she’s talking about herself.

“He’s an interesting character. He’s been involved in a number of things that are for immediate satisfaction, but also really exciting. And he gets so passionate about these things,” said Renee. “I been compared to him before, and I didn’t know how I felt about it. I guess we’re both dreams and we both choose to live to a certain extreme with the awareness that it will swing back to the opposite. If I’m this happy and passionate, it will come back to the moments of sadness. It’s the intensity that I choose to live by, and that’s what the ‘Pendulum’ is about.”

But because she went to boarding school for acting, it always felt like she didn’t have a choice to do anything else. All her focus was on acting. But in different ways, without knowing, she was always involved in music. She would date singers; her best friend was also a singer, and she would promote her shows and be passionate about it; until she realized that she wanted to do herself.

“When i sing, I physically feel that I’m getting a massage and I just feel so happy,” said Renee. “I used to say ‘I wish I could sing,’ and it’s so cool that now I’m actually doing it. If you’d told me this two years ago, I would be probably laugh. It’s like I’m leaving a dream.”