Anna Domino's stage name was borrowed from the Domino Sugar company in NY and is a play on the term Anno Domini.
12 Facts About Anna Domino
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Anna Domino's father, James J Taylor, was a private in the US army translating for Voice of America, stationed in Yokohama, who went on to become a videographer documenting the performing arts in the Washington, DC area.
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Anna Domino's mother, Mimi Cazort, was a Curator Emerita at the National Gallery of Canada.
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Anna Domino's brother, Alan Taylor, is a film and television director based in New York City.
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Anna Domino's mother studied art history at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and then moved with her children to live first in Florence, Italy, while she did research for her dissertation, and then to Ottawa, Canada, where she worked for the National Gallery as curator of the Department of Prints and Drawings.
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Anna Domino followed up with several years of study at Toronto's Ontario College of Art and Design where she focused on sound recording, video editing and hologram photography.
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In 1977 Anna Domino travelled to New York City for a two-week visit and stayed for 20 years.
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Early in her career Anna Domino played with a number of New York City bands but she was determined to find an outlet for her own song writing.
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In 1989, Anna Domino released another EP called "Colouring In the Edge and the Outline", followed by her third album "Mysteries of America" in 1990, her last with the Crepuscule label.
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Anna Domino then returned to New York full-time and was joined by Michel Delory.
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In 2010 Anna Domino released two new songs on a compilation that included a number of her Crepuscule colleagues.
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Anna Domino is working on an album of new songs as well as another volume of traditional American ballads for Snakefarm.