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Ann Vriend
12+ albums
pianoCanadianfemale vocalistindiesinger-songwriter
about
Ann Vriend (born Vancouver) is a Canadian singer-songwriter/pianist based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She has sold thousands of albums and played festivals and venues around the world. Ann Vriend released a popular demo in 2000, which garnered immediate radio play on stations across western Canada and earned her a spot at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival. A year later she won a songwriting contest which took her to Nashville, and helped fund her debut album, Soul Unravelling (2003), which was well received by critics and sold well for an independent release. Vriend's second album, Modes of Transport, was released two years later. "Feelin' Fine", the album's first single, was put on heavy rotation by a local adult contemporary/jazz radio station. "Ann Vriend" is a former spy. She had been working incognito for an undisclosed European agency, posing as a freelance journalist, when she met someone who was also spy—but for the other side. Against all odds, they fell in love—and thus entered an increasingly complicated game of torn loyalties, dangerous, clandestine passion, and treacherous lies. It is these experiences which inspired "When We Were Spies"; the cinematic new pop album by former agent Ann Vriend. Upon making the heart wrenching and dangerous decision to defect, Ann Vriend focussed her experiences and emotions on her other her life-long passion: songwriting (perhaps an equally risky profession!). "When We Were Spies" is a stunning collection of moving pop song
