Anja McCloskey (born c. 1982) is a German-American singer-songwriter signed to UK (United Kingdom) label Sotones Records.
[1] Her debut album An Estimation was released in September 2012 and received the Musicians Benevolent Fund "Emerging Excellence" award.
[2] It was received positively by the press, with the Daily Express calling it "simply magnificent" [3] and Q Magazine making lead single A Kiss Track of the Day, referring to it as "sultry folk, like a Romany gypsy cabaret show" [4] Her second album Quincy Who Waits followed in 2014, again to critical acclaim, with The Arts Desk calling it "one of the year’s prettiest albums"[5] and Louder Than War describing it as a "beautiful album with some quite stunning vocals and musical arrangements.
She moved to the United Kingdom at the age of twenty to obtain a degree in print journalism and remained in England, both in London, Southampton and Brighton, until 2017.
Anja works/ has worked and performs/ has performed with The Irrepressibles, Haunted Stereo,[8] Helen McCookerybook, Ana Silvera, Katy Carr, Moulettes, Pog, Etao Shin,[9] Moneytree,[10] and David Miatt of Thomas Tantrum and plays in the London Accordion Orchestra.