Orange County, CA- A poet at heart, Anna Elyse is a singer, songwriter and producer who draws inspiration from prolific songwriter like Neil Young and looks to modernize her sound with influences from  producers like No ID, Mike Dean and Illangelo.“I always found solace in music, especially when I connected to the stories. And I hope to provide that for someone else.”

After graduating from UCLA, with a concentration in Creative Writing (Poetry), she went on to Audio Engineering School and found that one of her very favorite places to be was in the studio. She was used to spending many hours in the dance studio growing up, and stepping into the recording studio was like slipping into an immersive world she knew she fit.

She worked behind the scenes in recording studios and serendipitously ended up on a few prominent hip-hop albums (Logic’s albums: Under Pressure, The Incredible True Story, and No Pressure). But, it wasn’t until a couple of years ago that she decided to let go of her reservations and release her own music. Her self-produced and mixed debut single, “Trading Glances” landed her on several upcoming folk-pop playlists (Greywood Records, Dave Powers, HQIndie).

Anna Elyse is excited to share her newest track, “Faster Than We Ran” with the world. Here’s what she had to say about it:

“This song came to me one foggy morning at the beach while staring out at the water and the thick mist hanging over everything. It felt like I was about to watch a portal open up into a different world. ‘Faster Than We Ran’ is about looking back on something that was magic and feeling immense gratitude for it. It may have been short-lived and incongruent or wrong in some ways, but it still lit you up and that’s what life is about. It’s looking back and saying, ‘That was so awesome, the human experience is such a magical thing.’ even when it’s imperfect”.