Keren Ann
Keren Ann
Keren Ann Zeidel, known professionally as Keren Ann, is a singer, songwriter, composer, producer, and engineer based largely in Paris, Tel Aviv, and New York City. She plays guitar, piano, and clarinet. She also engineers and writes choir and musical arrangements...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth10 March 1974
CountryIsrael
song art real
The first thing about a song is that it has to be real, be lived; it has to be emotional, and melancholic. I don't mean sad. Melancholy is sort of a comfort. Melancholy has a sort of beauty to it. This attracts me to every other form of art...
art ideas knowing
I like the idea of having a calm, quiet room to work on my [art] while knowing that outside there's noise and a lot happening. It's reassuring to know the 'everyday' continues even though inside the studio you feel so disconnected from it.
moods recreate
It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.
although explore stories
If I look at it, it's about being able to get lost in New York, to explore the city, to have more personal stories about New York, although some could also take place in Paris.
believe i-believe enough
I believe that the beauty of repetition is something that is not explored enough yet.
opposites complete-opposites
I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.
years different stories
So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that.
new-york writing
I spend a lot of time writing in New York.
home planes train
I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.
new-york nice home
I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to.
israel france eleven
Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven.
regret thinking sometimes
I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen.
regret thinking very-good
I think it's very good to have regrets, to learn how to live with them.
years play half
When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and a half and then once it's over it's over.