Annie Haslam

   
Artist: Annie Haslam

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Rock: Pop-Rock
   Rock: Progressive
   

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Discography:


   
 The Down Of Ananda

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 10


   
 It Snows in Heaven Too

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 16


   
 Down Of Ananda

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 10


   
 Under Brazilian Skies

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 15


   
 Blessing in Disguise

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 14


   
 Waterfalls Of Sounds

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 10


   
 Annie Haslam

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 11


   
 Still Life

   Year: 1985   
Tracks: 12


   
 Annie In Wonderland

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 8

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Best known for her long land tenure as the singer for prog-rockers Renaissance, Annie Haslam was the production of a musical fellowship -- her father was an amateur singer and comic, and her blood brother Michael was a mid-60s rock'n'roller whose life history was managed by Brian Epstein. Still, her earliest interest was fashion conception; only while at university did Haslam start singing, encouraged by friends after spontaneously acting a rendering of the Mary Hopkin hit "Those Were the Days" at a local saloon. She before long began poring over below opera vocaliser Sybil Knight, and in late 1970 answered an advertizement in Melody Maker to suit Renaissance's new vocalizer. Haslam's crystalline, five-octave soprano remained the group's focal point end-to-end the remainder of their vocation; patch silent fronting the band she made her solo debut in 1977 with the Roy Wood-produced Annie in Wonderland, followed in 1985 by Soundless Life. Haslam's third solo drive, a self-titled album from 1989, was the number one issued in the wake of Renaissance's profligacy as well as her last waiver for Epic; in its stir up she relocated to the U.S., where in 1993 she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her struggles became the brainchild behind 1994's Blessing in Disguise; Live Under Brazilian Skies followed five days afterward and Dawn of Ananda was issued in mid-2000.