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Anna Gutmanis is an award-winning Canadian songwriter, singer and keyboardist deeply influenced by the blues. Her 2014 single releases “Lately It’s Cold” and “Diamonds and Stiletto Shoes” charted on iTunes, and “Diamonds” also appeared on the Roots Music Report 2014 Top 100 Pop Song and Album charts. Several songs from her critically-acclaimed album "Glimmer In The Dark" appeared on 3 different Australian Indie Radio Charts and on the Roots Music Report 2014 Top 100 Pop Song chart. The award-winning single “I Am Who I Am” is an anthem to the LGBTQ rights movement. It was featured in Euro Pride 2015 events in Latvia, and it charted on RMR's Top 50 Songs in Canada for August 2017. Other recordings include Anna's eponymous debut album, which still receives airplay on blues radio. She has released 2 music videos, “I Am Who I Am”, and “Another Way Out”. Both videos played at film festivals internationally, and are also being used as educational tools at PFLAG. "Another Way Out" won the 2014 Best Short Documentary award at Q Cinema Texas, and it is also played at short film festivals in the GTA. Anna often performs live in and around Toronto, and plays shows across Canada and the United States. She digitally released her classic tune "Empire" on May 27, 2017. Anna originally released "Empire" to Ontario college radio in 1984, where it charted on stations across the province. The song is a scathing indictment of racism and sexism, and its message is more needed now than it was in the 1980s. A video for "Empire" can be viewed on YouTube. New singles and an album of new music are in the planning stages!

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