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Anita Kelsey (born in Mitcham, Surrey, United Kingdom) is a singer/songwriter whose vocals and top lines are featured on many hit dance records and feature films. Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. Singer-songwriter is a term that refers to Performers who write, compose and sing their own material including Lyrics

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Career

Anita Kelsey burst onto the dance scene with style in 1997 winning the UK's coveted MOBO Award for her first album on Dorado Records with Sunship – aka Ceri Evans (prolific UK based producer best known for his work in the UK garage field remixing Craig David, The Artful Dodger, Mis-teeq & most notably the UK#1 single 'You Bring Me Flowers' by Sweet FA). Craig Ashley David (born 5 May 1981) is an English R&B Singer-songwriter. Mis-Teeq were an English R&B group Originally a Quartet, the group eventually became a trio, whose members were Alesha Dixon Her next single 'Try Me Out' from the second Sunship album yielded a massive UK club hit and was an Agia Napa anthem of 2001, marking Sunship out as one of the top UK Garage acts. Ayia Napa ( Αγία Νάπα Aya Napa today officially Transliterated into English as Agia Napa) is a Resort at the far eastern end of UK Garage ( UKG) is an umbrella term that refers to several different varieties of modern Electronic dance music generally connected to the evolution of house Anita also collaborated on 2 of Dorado label-mate Matt Cooper's Outside albums at around the same time penning the singles ‘If You Come With Me’ & ‘Somewhere New’.

In 1998 Trevor Jones, renowned film composer, asked Anita to perform on the soundtrack to major sci-fi cult blockbuster ‘Dark City’. Trevor Alfred Charles Jones (born March 23, 1949 in Cape Town, South Africa) is a South African Orchestral Film score A film score is a broad term referring to the music in a film which is generally categorically separated from songs used within a film Dark City is a 1998 science fiction Film noir written by Alex Proyas, Lem Dobbs and David S This resulted in American actress Jennifer Connelly miming to Anita's voice in two prominent scenes as well as the Kelsey rendition of 'Sway' being featured on the end credits. Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12 1970 is an American film actress and former child model. The tracks ‘Sway’ & "The Night Has 1000 Eyes" were included on the film’s soundtrack released on TVT Sountrax. "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" is a popular song written by Benjamin Weisman, Dorothy Wayne and Marilynn Garrett and made famous by Bobby Vee on his 1963 Other major films featuring Anita’s voice include Bring Me The Head Of Mavis Davis and Merlin. The Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network ( MERLIN) is an Interferometer array of Radio telescopes spread across England and the

Mainstream commercial success came in 2002 for Anita's collaboration on D*Note's Shed My Skin (Pete Tong's record of the week when it was released) which steamed into the UK & US dance charts at # 7, topping the Belgian dance charts at # 1. Peter "Pete" Tong (born July 30, 1960) is an English DJ who works for BBC Radio 1. The track entered the Belgian national charts staying for 22 weeks, peaking at # 4 and has so far been featured on more than 40 compilations worldwide. A compilation album is an Album ( Music or Spoken-word) featuring tracks from one or multiple Recording artists, often culled from a variety of

Other collaborations followed, including the track 'Clouds' with Grammy nominees The Latin Project in 2003, Signum with 'Come Around Again' in 2004, Cor Fijneman with 'Healing' 2003, and 'Colourless World' in 2004, Bluefish (aka Evolution) with 'Been Too Long' 2004 and Memento's 'New Life' 2004. The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards)—or Grammys —are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences The Latin Project are the brainchild of Jez Colin and Matt Cooper, a pair of British DJs Remixers producers who collaborate with various

Her own project ToyShop with partner Gordon Hulbert gained recognition in 2004 with their single Million Miles being voted Top Tune in IDJ Magazine/Sure Player in DJ Magazine and was supported by prominent DJs such as Pete Tong, Pete Heller, Timo Maas, Pete Gooding and others. A disc jockey (also known as DJ or deejay) is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience Pete Heller is an electronic and House music producer from England. The track is included on Defected's Café Mambo 10th Anniversary compilation. Anita's 2005 track 'Every Kiss' on Extrema Records also featured a ToyShop mix.

In 2004 Anita signed to BMG Music Publishing.

In 2005 Markus Schulz teamed up with Anita to release the single ‘First Time’ On Armada Records in Netherlands. Markus Schulz is a German Trance music DJ and producer who currently resides in Miami, Florida, USA. This led to the track being included on Markus’s debut album ‘Without You Near’ along with a second track being chosen ‘Travelling Light’.

In 2006 Anita was approached by dance producer TTLC, aka TDR (Tom de Ridder), to collaborate on electro track ‘Never Ever’. This track was released by Belgian label Mostiko and has culminated in DJ’s such as Judge Jules & Sasha championing the Filterheadz remix (live and on their weekly shows on BBC Radio 1) as well as the Housetrap mix receiving heavy air rotation on Belgian national radio. Judge Jules (born Julius O'Riordan on 26 October 1966 is a British Dance music DJ, although he has been known to claim to be Irish Sasha (born Alexander Coe on 4 September 1969 is a Welsh DJ and record producer Anita also wrote for Virgin Records signing 'Lost Witness' whose singles ‘Home’ and ‘Not Coming Down’ were co-written by Anita and performed brilliantly by Tiff Lacey (singer on Paul Oakenfold's Hypnotise). Virgin Records is a British Record label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell Lost Witness is an English trance production and DJ duo composed of Simon Paul (also known as Si Paul and Simon Kemper Tiff Lacey (aka Tiffany Lacey) is a singer from Crayford Kent, United Kingdom and the vocalist behind many songs Paul Oakenfold (born 30 August, 1963 in Greenhithe, Kent, UK) is a Record producer and a popular trance

Her most recent collaboration 'Wicked World' with Dutch production duo Hardsoul resulted in the track being snapped up by Fedde Le Grande to re-mix for his debut album ‘Sessions’ released on Ministry Of Sound 2007. Fedde le Grand (born 1977 Utrecht, The Netherlands) is a Dutch house DJ and producer whose single "Put Your Hands Up For Detroit" (UK/AUS / Ministry of Sound ( MoS) is a global dance music brand and a Nightclub in Elephant and Castle, Southwark, South London, officially

Anita is currently focusing on writing for artists in the mainstream pop market as well as continuing to write for producers/artists in the dance world. Markus Schulz is due to release his second artist album in 2007 featuring a new collaboration with Anita ‘On A Wave’.

Discography

Singles

- co-written and performed by Anita Kelsey

Albums

- featuring songs written & Performed by Anita Kelsey

Trivia

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