Singers with Unique Voices: Ane Brun (The Unique Voices Club #46)
- Alexia Rowe
- May 1
- 2 min read
Every other Friday, I write a post about singers with unique voices not commonly heard in mainstream music. My goal? To educate emerging artists, music lovers and musical theatre creators while inspiring them to embrace their own quirks. This week, I'm writing on Ane Brun.
Ane Brun (pronounced like Princess Anna from Frozen) has been releasing music since 2003 and that includes eleven studio albums, six live albums, five compilations, one live DVD, and seven EPs. That's a career that is almost as long as Maroon 5 and Kelly Clarkson, yet I only heard of Ane only a few years ago. She's particularly big in Western Europe and Scandanavia, given that she's from the Norwegian town of Molde and established her career in Stockholm. Imagine how much more quirky this blog would become if I travelled to all the countries where some of these unique voices are from. Maybe I might discover a busker on the street similar to this one I saw on the cobblestone streets of Edinburgh many years ago:
Ane Brun has been described as a cross between a haunted Dolly Parton and ethereal singer-songwriter Stephanie Dosen (an episode on her later). With no clear twang though, but the same kind of resonance through the mask of the face and the front part of the palate. And obviously not country music. Ane's genres span folk, pop and art pop (a term I only know from Lady Gaga's album but means pop music with influences such as avant-gardeism, literature, fashion and fine art), differing greatly from Dolly's country pop, bluegrass, and gospel works. She's even indie like Stephanie Dosen, operating her own record label Balloon Ranger Recordings. And if you watch and listen along with me in the video below, you will definitely figure out that she is not mainstream:
And that is that for this episode of The Unique Voices Club! Friendly reminder to subscribe to the Firebird Flock to get access to earlier posts of unique voices I have covered over the last year and change and to get access to the forum where you can exchange voices you discover among yourselves that I will use in future episodes! There's power in the unconventional, and there's also strength in numbers when it comes to building a movement that ensures equity for all kinds of artists who deviate from the status quo. So share away!
Stay educated,
Alexia
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