ANNA DUBOC
I recently had an incredible experience which to me captures why I love being a singer/songwriter. While performing one of my recent singles ‘Sinking Feeling,’ I noticed that a young girl in the audience was crying. It may sound funny, but I felt great about that because it was like her tears were telling me she related deeply to what I was singing. If I can write, sing and produce songs that can connect with what other people are feeling and help them through their difficult times of anger, sadness or confusion, that’s more important than worrying about my personal vulnerability. Over the past few years, I’ve definitely grown as a songwriter and gotten much better at putting my innermost thoughts, self-reflections and observations into words.”
In a world where most artists her age measure their success by social media and streaming numbers, 17-year-old Anna Duboc’s reflections on her incredibly impactful recording career are a refreshing reminder that behind those views, streams and hundreds of thousands of followers are real people longing for inspiration and meaningful connection as they go through challenging life and relationship issues. In just a few years, she has emerged as a powerful voice for her generation.
While the singer keeps focused on the creative flow of writing and recording songs and creating videos, her stats have exploded since she dropped her first single at age 13 in 2019. Anna currently has 202,500 followers and over 1.1 MILLION likes on TikTok, 26.1M+ views and 40,400 subscribers on her official YouTube Partner channel; and 30,900 followers on Instagram. Her total streams on all platforms currently top 40M.
Starting with her sly, soulful and ethereal new single “Mystery Lady,” Anna will be releasing a total of four tracks throughout spring and summer 2023 that reflect her immense growth not only as a lead vocalist and insightful storyteller/songwriter, but also as a vocal arranger and co-producer. “As a writer, I’m always learning more about using metaphors and writing lyrics that convey feelings in a concise way,” she says. “When it comes to producing, I have more of a vision for how I want myself and the songs to sound than ever before. When I started at 13, I felt like I wanted to write everything myself. But as I’ve matured, I’ve learned the value of partnering with the right people and learning from their creative input and experience.”
One of Anna’s trademarks as an artist is a willingness in her lyrics to be super transparent about personal issues like early life trauma and dealing with depression, and to tap into deeper, darker emotions than most girls in their mid-teens would dare to do. “I am usually very open about my emotions, though I don’t go into great detail about my personal life on my social media platforms,” she says. “I’m not generally inclined to really go in depth with people about my challenges one on one, which feels awkward to me. Music helps me write it out and express these emotions much more effectively.”
Having grown up in a highly creative family, Anna is a natural on stage, singing, dancing and performing since she was four years old. Her mother Carol has penned hits for Patti Labelle, Tom Jones, and others and has hit the charts with numerous jazz albums over the past 20 years. From ages 4 to 7, Anna sang “Yesterday” so often that her tennis coach nicknamed her after the Beatles classic. Influenced by everyone from Queen to Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift and Rihanna and more recently Billie Eilish, Conan Gray and Lizzie McAlpine, Anna began writing songs in the third grade and created a CD of her music for a school assignment. Long before she was an indie pop singer-songwriter, Anna was lighting up the musical theatre stage at the Adderley School, where Jack Grazer and Golden Globe winner Ben Platt also attended. She performed the lead role in “Anything Goes,” her first musical, at age 5 with Grazer. She also performed on stage with Katy Perry at 11 and had numerous solos the following year in the “Footloose” revival concert with Kenny Loggins and his band to an awestruck crowd.
When she’s not working hard on music and creating social media content to promote her songs and videos, Anna is very much a normal teenager. Currently a high school sophomore, she is very proud of her academic accomplishments – including maintaining an “A” average in AP Calculus, an achievement she attributes to the fact that “I really like math.” She adds, “School is really important to me. I have like 500 years of European history memorized now, and having that in my head while writing and doing this, they don’t really work well together, ‘cause I don’t need to know everything about the Renaissance while I’m singing my songs.”
Summing up her still developing artistry, Anna says that the overall message in her songs is that it’s okay to go through hard times: “We all wear a façade to a certain extent, but my music is a way to tear that off and show the more artistic and emotional side of me. As much as I love performing, my favorite thing has always been writing. It’s an amazing process confronting some of life’s great difficulties and turning them into something beautiful with the perfect words and melody. Like we’ve gone through hardship, but something wonderful has come out of it. There’s no greater feeling than seeing the end product of such a detailed creative and technical process.”
ANNA DUBOC
I recently had an incredible experience which to me captures why I love being a singer/songwriter. While performing one of my recent singles ‘Sinking Feeling,’ I noticed that a young girl in the audience was crying. It may sound funny, but I felt great about that because it was like her tears were telling me she related deeply to what I was singing. If I can write, sing and produce songs that can connect with what other people are feeling and help them through their difficult times of anger, sadness or confusion, that’s more important than worrying about my personal vulnerability. Over the past few years, I’ve definitely grown as a songwriter and gotten much better at putting my innermost thoughts, self-reflections and observations into words.”
In a world where most artists her age measure their success by social media and streaming numbers, 17-year-old Anna Duboc’s reflections on her incredibly impactful recording career are a refreshing reminder that behind those views, streams and hundreds of thousands of followers are real people longing for inspiration and meaningful connection as they go through challenging life and relationship issues. In just a few years, she has emerged as a powerful voice for her generation.
While the singer keeps focused on the creative flow of writing and recording songs and creating videos, her stats have exploded since she dropped her first single at age 13 in 2019. Anna currently has 202,500 followers and over 1.1 MILLION likes on TikTok, 26.1M+ views and 40,400 subscribers on her official YouTube Partner channel; and 30,900 followers on Instagram. Her total streams on all platforms currently top 40M.
Starting with her sly, soulful and ethereal new single “Mystery Lady,” Anna will be releasing a total of four tracks throughout spring and summer 2023 that reflect her immense growth not only as a lead vocalist and insightful storyteller/songwriter, but also as a vocal arranger and co-producer. “As a writer, I’m always learning more about using metaphors and writing lyrics that convey feelings in a concise way,” she says. “When it comes to producing, I have more of a vision for how I want myself and the songs to sound than ever before. When I started at 13, I felt like I wanted to write everything myself. But as I’ve matured, I’ve learned the value of partnering with the right people and learning from their creative input and experience.”
One of Anna’s trademarks as an artist is a willingness in her lyrics to be super transparent about personal issues like early life trauma and dealing with depression, and to tap into deeper, darker emotions than most girls in their mid-teens would dare to do. “I am usually very open about my emotions, though I don’t go into great detail about my personal life on my social media platforms,” she says. “I’m not generally inclined to really go in depth with people about my challenges one on one, which feels awkward to me. Music helps me write it out and express these emotions much more effectively.”
Having grown up in a highly creative family, Anna is a natural on stage, singing, dancing and performing since she was four years old. Her mother Carol has penned hits for Patti Labelle, Tom Jones, and others and has hit the charts with numerous jazz albums over the past 20 years. From ages 4 to 7, Anna sang “Yesterday” so often that her tennis coach nicknamed her after the Beatles classic. Influenced by everyone from Queen to Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift and Rihanna and more recently Billie Eilish, Conan Gray and Lizzie McAlpine, Anna began writing songs in the third grade and created a CD of her music for a school assignment. Long before she was an indie pop singer-songwriter, Anna was lighting up the musical theatre stage at the Adderley School, where Jack Grazer and Golden Globe winner Ben Platt also attended. She performed the lead role in “Anything Goes,” her first musical, at age 5 with Grazer. She also performed on stage with Katy Perry at 11 and had numerous solos the following year in the “Footloose” revival concert with Kenny Loggins and his band to an awestruck crowd.
When she’s not working hard on music and creating social media content to promote her songs and videos, Anna is very much a normal teenager. Currently a high school sophomore, she is very proud of her academic accomplishments – including maintaining an “A” average in AP Calculus, an achievement she attributes to the fact that “I really like math.” She adds, “School is really important to me. I have like 500 years of European history memorized now, and having that in my head while writing and doing this, they don’t really work well together, ‘cause I don’t need to know everything about the Renaissance while I’m singing my songs.”
Summing up her still developing artistry, Anna says that the overall message in her songs is that it’s okay to go through hard times: “We all wear a façade to a certain extent, but my music is a way to tear that off and show the more artistic and emotional side of me. As much as I love performing, my favorite thing has always been writing. It’s an amazing process confronting some of life’s great difficulties and turning them into something beautiful with the perfect words and melody. Like we’ve gone through hardship, but something wonderful has come out of it. There’s no greater feeling than seeing the end product of such a detailed creative and technical process.”