1. Anya Marina Kroth was born on September 23,1976 and is an American singer-songwriter, based in New York City.
16 Facts About Anya Marina
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Anya Marina's music has been featured on several television shows, including Grey's Anatomy, How I Met Your Mother, The Real World, Castle, United States of Tara, Gossip Girl, Batwoman, The Vampire Diaries, and Supernatural.
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Anya Marina's songs have been featured on the soundtrack of The Twilight Saga: New Moon soundtrack and 13 Reasons Why Season 2 soundtrack.
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Anya Marina's parents are both university professors, who teach psychology and Russian literature.
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Anya Marina moved to Los Angeles as an aspiring actress and attended classes at the British American Drama Academy and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
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Anya Marina has acted on television and in films.
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Anya Marina returned to Cupertino to earn her Bachelor of Arts degree in writing and linguistics from Santa Clara University, where she appeared in music video for Faith No More and episodes of The Mr T Experience, Unsolved Mysteries and others.
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In San Diego Anya Marina played her first open mic night and began to write her own songs.
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Anya Marina developed a live show that included anecdotes and frank stories told between songs, and continued working as a DJ on the radio in San Diego while playing around town and, later, touring.
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Anya Marina's recorded debut was a five-song EP called Exercises in Racketeering, which eventually led to a full-length album, Miss Halfway, which was released January 25,2005.
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Anya Marina subsequently opened for Jason Mraz, Juliana Hatfield and Rhett Miller among others.
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Anya Marina was named one of the "Best Unsigned" acts by the San Diego CityBeat.
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Anya Marina co-hosted the live MySpace broadcast of the New Moon premiere.
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In 2009, Anya Marina moved to Portland, Oregon to write and record the album "Felony Flats", named after a local neighborhood.
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In 2012, Anya Marina moved to New York City to write and record her next album.
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In January 2021, Anya Marina announced a live album titled Live and Alone in New York, recorded over two nights at Rockwood Music Hall in Manhattan, set for a February 19 release.