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...year-old singer-songwriter was born in Israel as Keren Ann Zeidel, grew up there and in the Netherlands until her family moved to France two decades ago. After two albums in French, she has since mostly recorded in English, and recently celebrated her new self-titled album's European release with a private concert at Le Réservoir, a small club on Paris' Right Bank. After adjusting her guitar and donning a harmonica holder, she launched into the new song "Lay Your Head Down," with her four-man band. As the song's opening steady drumbeat kicked...
...This is what a musician works toward and is grateful for, particularly one who has spent much time building an international fanbase by touring heavily over the past few years. "It's great doing it the old-fashioned way," Keren Ann says by telephone, a few hours before going onstage in Orléans last week. "Touring and touring and touring." Which is something she'll be doing more of around North America starting next month, as the album, her fifth since her 2000 debut, hits stores Tuesday...
...Many musicians release self-titled records, and when it's not a debut, it's often is marketing as indicating a spiritual or artistic rebirth - or maybe just a new record deal. For Keren Ann, it's nothing of the sort. "I hadn't used my eponymous bonus," she jokes. Actually, she says she typically has a title in mind throughout the writing and recording of an album, but this time wanted no title...
...takes its time. For the first few albums, her beautiful melodies were matched at times by the kind of fragile, whispery voice that has become a French tradition in the style of Isabelle Adjani, Jane Birkin and her daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg. But over the last couple of years, Keren Ann's has evolved into more expressive, fuller and more melodic voice. She says it's because she's now writing in keys she's more comfortable singing in, not to mention all that journeyman time doing show after show. "Sometimes, when you play an instrument, there's a change where...
...senior administrators – Evelynn Hammonds, Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity, Chris Gordon, Chief Operating Officer of the Allston Development Group, Clayton Spencer, Vice President for Policy, and Kasia Lundy, Chief of Staff to the President and Provost; and two other advisors – Ann Berman, former Vice President of Finance, and William Lee, co-managing partner of WilmerHale and vice chair of the Board of Overseers executive committee...