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Anna Popovic
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| 2012 Ana performs at the Mahindra Blues Festival in Mumbai India where she jams with Buddy Guy, Taj Mahal, Robert Randolph and John Lee Hooker JR. 2011 From January till March Ana moves to New Orleans to record her 6th studio album, and 3rd Eclecto Groove release. The back to the roots & blues album ‘Unconditional’ is produced by Ana Popovic and Grammy Award winning John Porter. The record features New Orleans very best musicians like Ana’s slide idol Sonny Landreth and Jon Cleary on B3 and piano. Also harp player Jason Ricci makes a guest appearance.In July Ana is honored to appear as a special guest at BB-King’s German shows. During the summer the Ana Popovic band is scheduled for an impressive 35 summer-festivals all over Europe and the USA. The song ‘One Room Country Shack’ (Unconditional), is ‘Pick-Of-The-Week’ in USA Today, American’s biggest national newspaper. Unconditional makes it to Billboard Blues Charts for 9 weeks peeking at #7. The album is at # 70 at Amazon’s all music bestsellers list and # 1 at Amazon’s contemporary Blues bestsellers list. Ana jams with Buddy Guy, Sonny Landreth and John Popper (Blues Traveler). In December Ana receives a 3-time nomination for the 2012 Blues Music Awards in the USA; for Contemporary Blues Album (Unconditional), Contemporary Blues Female Artist and Best DVD (An Evening at Trasimeno Lake). 2010 Fender Musical Instruments invites Ana for showcases at the NAMM show in LA in January and the Frankfurter Music Fair (Musikmesse) in March.Ana is nominated for The British Blues Awards in the ‘Best Overseas Artist’ category alongside BB King and Joe Bonamassa. During a 5 week tour in the US and Canada Ana performes at Montreal Jazz fest, worlds biggest jazz festival, for an audience of 13000 persons. She jams with Blues Traveler, Gary Clark Jr and Hot Tuna. The band opens up for Robert Gray. At her hometown Belgrade, Serbia she performs before an over enthusiasts 75000 people audience. Ana is invited for a festival-tour in Indonesia playing shows in Jakarta, Bandung and the Island Bali. Her new live DVD ‘An evening at Trasimeno Lake’ is pre-released on July 28 during Trasimeno blues festival 2010 followed by the official European release in September and the US release in December. 2009 For the second time Ana and her European band are invited to play at the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise. Ana jams on the high seas with Susan Tedeschi, Larry McCray, Bob Margolin and many others.Ana is part of Robert Radler’s guitar documentary ‘Turn it up¡¦ aka TONE, about the world¡¦s best guitars and guitar players. In March and April Ana records her second Eclecto Groove album ‘BLIND FOR LOVE’ (BFL) at Castle Oaks Studio in Los Angeles with producers David Z (Prince, Jonny Lang) and Mark Dearnley (AC/DC, Paul McCartney). BFL is released in July, the same month that Ana has the great honour to share the stage with BB King. In October BFL is #1 played album at the blues radio airplay charts at independent ‘Roots Music Report’. 2008 Ana travels to Los Angeles to remix her album ‘Still Making History’ with platinum selling producer, Rudy ‘Mayru’ Maya. On May 5 Ana gives birth to a healthy baby-boy; Luuk. He weights 3.925 Kilo (almost 8 pound) and is born with lots of dark hair and big blue eyes. Ana does an impressive total of 152 concerts; seven intensive tours in the US, sharing the stage with many famous artists including blues legend Buddy Guy. Next to touring Europe and the US she even plays Russia and Mexico. In October Ana is invited for a Dutch combi-tour with Dutch ‘guitar-hero’ Jan Akkerman (Focus). Also in October Ana stars in Hollywood’s production Springbreak ’83 shot in New Orleans. That very same month her record makes its debut on the Billboard Blues Chart at #8 sharing the chart with the likes of Stevie Ray Vaughan. In November SMH makes it to #7 and in the beginning of December even to #4. |
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