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Anya Malkiel

Anya Malkiel grew up in the former Soviet Union. During her University years in St. Petersburg, she and her sister were well known on the rock scene, singing with local bands Vozrozdenie and Aelita. But Anya's first visit to a jazz club changed her singing career forever: she learned jazz standards by listening to western records and by collaborating with Russian musicians. Then she started singing jazz standards with the band Nevskaya Vosmyorka at Kvadrat jazz club and never looked back. She sang with such great musicians as Vladislav Pankevich, Eduard Moskalyov, Grigoryi Lakshin and others

Anya Malkiel: From the Heart

By Anya Malkiel

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2013
Track listing: Fine and Mellow; Invitation; Pannonica; Lullaby of the Leaves; You Must Believe in Spring; I Thought About You; There’ll Never Be Another You; Under Paris Skies; Beautiful Love; Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child.

Anya Malkiel: From the Heart

by Geannine Reid
September 1, 2013

Anya Malkiel is a Bay Area-based vocalist who grew up in a musical environment in the former Soviet Union. Jazz was taboo, but would nevertheless become a vital part of her life. Malkiel states, “It was always the human voice that drove my musical aspirations." After leaving for the United States in 1990, she shared a ...