1. Ana Free has a growing musical presence on the popular video sharing website YouTube, gaining over 40.1 million views to date.
23 Facts About Ana Free
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Ana Free is currently recording and living in Los Angeles and recently finished a degree with First Class Honours in economics at the University of Kent in 2008.
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Ana Free says she grew up listening to artists such as Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Bob Marley, Santana, Sam Cooke, Joni Mitchell and Sheryl Crow.
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Ana Free learned to play a lot of blues songs on guitar, which she practised with her father.
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Ana Free says that as a teenager she used to borrow her brother's records and listened to artists like Bryan Adams, Guns N' Roses, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and 4 Non Blondes.
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Ana Free was a fan of mainstream pop acts like Christina Aguilera, En Vogue, Britney Spears, Destiny's Child, Spice Girls, and Ace of Base.
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In 2013, Ana Free was invited to be the musical ambassador for the Volkswagen brand in their digital campaign "As Sun As Possible" to promote the new Volkswagen Beetle cabriolet, filmed in Hawaii.
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In late 2013 Ana Free was asked to be one of the official songwriters and composers for the US drama series SAF3 for the opening season of the show, airing on the CW channel.
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Ana Free was announced as one of the 10 finalists of the 2013 Guitar Center Singer Songwriter Competition selected by Grammy-winning record producer Don Was.
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In 2012, Ana Free launched a crowd funding campaign via the popular website PledgeMusic which lasted 8 months.
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Ana Free went on to complete her debut album alongside Argentinian producer Rodrigo Crespo, who has worked with an array of artists including Shakira, recording the album in Buenos Aires, London and Lisbon.
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In May 2012, Ana Free showcased her album at the first officially YouTube endorsed festival in Singapore, her first ever visit to Asia, sponsored by Warner Singapore, Blackberry and telecoms company Starhub.
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On 2 June 2012, Ana Free performed at the prestigious Rock in Rio festival in Lisbon.
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In late 2011, Ana Free teamed up with MTV EMA nominee DJ Diego Miranda and together they recorded the hit single "Girlfriend" which went on to hold the number 1 spot on the national charts for over 8 weeks.
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In May 2010, Ana Free travelled to New York City to work with British film director, music producer and writer Mark Maclaine, for the filming of the videoclip for Questions in My Mind, her first single off the five-track EP Radian, released in February 2010.
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Ana Free travelled to Portugal to record the videoclip with Portuguese rock band Hands on Approach, for whom she recorded vocals on the song Black Tears, for their album High and Above.
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Ana Free was featured prominently on a billboard in Times Square.
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In November 2008, Ana Free was invited to record the Portuguese theme tune Voa Ate Ao Teu Coracao for the release of the Disney movie Tinker Bell for which she recorded the music video.
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Ana Free made her first live TV performance in the summer of 2007 on TVI in Portugal, where she sang "Crazy", a song she composed herself.
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Ana Free has achieved chart success with her first single, which was released on 23 May 2008, "In My Place".
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In November 2010, she opened for Shakira, which Ana Free considers one of her career's most defining and special moments.
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Ana Free has contributed to a variety of charitable causes, including lending her name to the Liga Portuguesa contra o Cancro in 2009, as an ambassador for raising awareness for cervical cancer.
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Ana Free is the current ambassador to the Lisbon Oceanarium.