- published: 21 Jun 2011
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Anna Calvi is an English musician who plays in the band of the same name. On 6 December 2010, Calvi was announced as a nominee for the BBC's Sound of 2011 poll. Her debut album Anna Calvi was released in the UK on 17 January 2011, where it debuted at number 40 on 23 January. The album was subsequently nominated for the prestigious Mercury Music Prize in 2011 and the BRIT Awards in 2012.
Anna Calvi was born in Twickenham, in 1982 and spent most of her first three years of life in hospital. "The way I dealt with that was to create my own world. And that's what my relationship with music is – a world of my own creation that I escape into. I was always a dreamer. The early things stick with you," she later remembered. Anna Calvi grew up being exposed to a multitude of genres of music by her music-loving Italian father; this eclectic array ranged from Captain Beefheart to The Rolling Stones to Maria Callas, combined with an early understanding of classical music, "I was so taken by the sound. Whenever I saw an instrument I would get so excited and my heart would beat really fast". Calvi first picked up the violin at 6, and guitar at 8."Something would take me over whenever I'd seen an electric guitar," she later recalled. By the age of 10 she was using a double cassette karaoke machine to overdub her playing. All the while, attracted "to the impressionistic element of the music", she came to be much influenced by 20th century composers Messiaen, Ravel, and Debussy, the feel of which she would try to recreate on the guitar, an instrument she was compelled to learn on discovering Django Reinhardt and Jimi Hendrix at the age of 13.
Anna Calvi - Desire
Anna Calvi - Suzanne and I
Anna Calvi - Live at the Southbank Centre
Anna Calvi - Suddenly (Official Video)
Anna Calvi: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Anna Calvi, David Byrne - Strange Weather (Official Video)
Anna Calvi - Blackout
Anna Calvi - Ghost Rider (Live at St John at Hackney Church - Suicide)
Amanda Palmer & Jherek Bischoff - Blackstar (Feat. Anna Calvi)
Anna Calvi - Love Won't Be Leaving (Live in New York) | Moshcam
Actors: Tanasije Uzunovic (actor), Adriano Tagliavia (editor), Predrag Ejdus (actor), Irfan Mensur (actor), Omero Antonutti (actor), Pino Donaggio (composer), Rutger Hauer (actor), Giancarlo Giannini (actor), Pier Paolo Capponi (actor), Alessandro Gassman (actor), Ivan Bekjarev (actor), Franco Diogene (actor), Gaetano Amato (actor), Augusto Zucchi (actor), Bruno Bilotta (actor),
Plot: This movie attempts to reconstruct the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through the story of its president Roberto Calvi, notoriously found dead under the Blackfriars Bridge in London in June 1982.
Keywords: 1970s, 1980s, anni-di-piombo, assassination, bank, bribe, camorra, carabinieri, communism, conspiracy[1st verse:]
Girlie, cuddle near me
Girlie, won't you hear me?
I've been feeling blue
Ring the final curtain
For I'm more than certain
I'm in love with you
Like my Yankee Father
Girlie, I would rather die than prove untrue
Fearless, undenying, Yankee never dying
Love I bear for you
[Refrain:]
Red, White and Blue, love
Real all for you, love
All through and through, love
Real Yankee Doodle Doo, love
Honest and true love
I bring to you, love
Old Kentucky, Alabama
Mississippi, Lou'siana
Yankee love
[2nd verse:]
Girlie, flags are waving
My poor heart's behaving
Like a house on fire
Church-bells gayly ringing
Mean I'll soon be bringing
Home my heart's desire
Thoughts of care or sorrow
Will be dead tomorrow when you wear my ring
Ere the morn arouses
From the tops of houses
To the world I'll sing