Anna Stubbs

She holds degrees in music from the Leeds College of Music and The Guildhall.  Anna is a dedicated SLS teacher, and believes the technique is the base for good style, tuneful harmonies and beautiful sound production.

Having grown up in Leigh-on-sea via Seattle and California, Anna's musical style is multi-faceted and full of surprises. She has been immersed in 70s rock, folk and disco; 80s pop,house and electro; and continued through to the present day listening to everything else!

During the 90s she studied as a jazz singer and pianist where she earned a first class degree at the Leeds College of Music. She finished her studies at the Guildhall School of Music studying with the country's finest and gaining a Post Graduate in Jazz and Studio music. Her main project is her band Brotherly which she runs with partner and Zero 7 bassist Robin Mullarkey. They released their first album One Sweet Life to much critical acclaim in May 2007, and their second album Find First Light in 2010. She has releases on Compost Records with Rima, Hospital Records on Outpatients, and Bitasweet with Brotherly's underground smash "Put It Out". Anna is the Director of Brotherly Music Ltd, a record label and publishing company which deals with her and Robin's prolific catalogue and releases, and enables them to keep writing cutting-edge music.

With Brotherly and her previous beats'n'string section band 'Ana' she has played at venues and festivals all over the UK and Europe headlining at Ronnie Scott's,Jazz Cafe, Mean Fiddler, Borderline, Spitz, Barbican Hall,Sofia Live Club, The Vortex, Cargo and the London Jazz Festival. Brotherly were nominated for Radio One's Gilles Peterson's Worldwide 'session of the year' after recording a mind-blowing set at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios in 2006. From 1999-2006 Anna was the Lecturer of Voice at the Leeds College of Music (Jazz) and is currently running bands, and teaching piano, voice and theory at the London Centre of Contemporary Music. Anna feels teaching singers and musicians of all levels and ages to be a vital part of her musicianship and well-being.