Anna Petrova

Music just chooses some people. Anna Petrova can trace her musical history even back before birth.  The only thing that would soothe her rambunctious kicking and later crying, was the strum of her Dad’s acoustic guitar. Indeed, she started performing at age 2 and wrote her first song at 5.  That early history began her path to becoming a young musical impresario. Now, the 19-year-old Anna’s dynamic voice and diverse aesthetic fuel her debut EP, It’s Not All About Me. Born in Connecticut, Anna moved to her family’s native Poland as an infant. Spending seven years across the Atlantic, she experienced a myriad of sounds and styles that otherwise would’ve eluded her in the States.  “In Poland, you hear music from around the world,” she affirms. “Everything from the Czech Republic, Germany, and Spain to France and Japan. It opened me up to an expansive musical mindset.” Combining international influences with those of artists such as Aaliyah, Britney Spears, FKA Twigs, Janet Jackson, Nirvana, and Eminem, by the time she moved back Stateside, Anna had begun architecting her own sonic identity, eschewing boundaries in the process. She fearlessly merges woodwind instruments with R&B and infuses hip- hop beats with sultry spoken word.  Modeling work and formal dance training have helped shape and inform her captivating live performances. “This EP is pop music,” she declares. “But at the same time it’s a mix of all of the genres that have inspired me.” Breathing life into handwritten lyrics from her notebook, Anna wrote and recorded the bulk of the EP in her suburban Connecticut bedroom. For production, she teamed up with talent including Elite Producers (B.o.B, Outlawz), Lazaro Venezuela (Kiesza, Zendaya), Klever Beats and Ian Carr Productions. The EP’s first single, “Puff Puff,” rises from an otherworldly electronic haze into an elegantly seductive hook that instantly transfixes. Her robust delivery carries “Goodbye” from somber to soaring, and “Lemonade” flaunts an uplifting message over sweetly stinging production, while “Q&A” combines a sparse sonic rattle with an eloquent and stirring spoken word passage. It’s Not All About Me carries the message that “If you want to do something, do it no matter what anybody says,” explains Anna.  “Seize your moment.”  Music chose Anna, and her moment is now.