Career

Kyd has worked with musicians including Meegan Bradfield (Limblifter), Lisa Wagner (Cello player for Moist), Gene Hoglan

Gene Hoglan

Eugene "Gene" Victor Hoglan II is an American drummer. He is acclaimed for his creativity in drum arrangements, including usage of odd devices for percussion effects and his trademark lengthy double-kick drum rhythms...

 (Strapping Young Lad) and Byron Stroud

Byron Stroud

Byron Stroud is the bassist for metal bands Fear Factory, City of Fire and Zimmers Hole and the defunct band Strapping Young Lad.-Biography:...

 (Fear Factory). Ani has played guitar for the legendary THOR

Jon Mikl Thor

Jon Mikl Thor , is a bodybuilding champion, actor, songwriter, screenwriter, historian, vocalist and musician....

 as well as having Jello Biafra

Jello Biafra

Jello Biafra is an American musician, spoken word artist and leading figure of the Green Party of the United States. Biafra first gained attention as the lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys...

 produce and perform back up vocals for her debut cd "Evil Needs Candy Too" which was released on Alternative Tentacles in 2005. From 2005 to 2007 she sang in the 2 lead singer metal/rock band "Approach The Throne" with Chris "Val" Valagao

Chris Valagao

Chris "The Heathen" Valagao is a heavy metal musician of Norwegian and Portuguese descent best known as the front man for Canadian speed/thrash metal band Zimmers Hole.- Nicknames :...

 (Zimmers Hole) as the other singer.Throughout Ani's professional career she has sung back up vocals for Paul Hyde

Paul Hyde

Paul Hyde is a British-born Canadian musician and record producer .Born in Yorkshire, Hyde came to Canada as a teenager.- Hyde in the Payola$, Phase One :...

, Sandy Scofield, Strapping Young Lad

Strapping Young Lad

Strapping Young Lad was a Canadian extreme metal band formed by Devin Townsend in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1994. The band started as a one-man studio project; Townsend played most of the instruments on the 1995 debut album, Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing...

(on the album Alien

Alien (album)

Alien is the fourth album by Canadian extreme metal band Strapping Young Lad. It was released on March 22, 2005. The album was written by Devin Townsend and Gene Hoglan over a 6 month time period....

) and the Devin Townsend Band. She has also been on various compilations including Trooper

Trooper (band)

Trooper is a Juno Award winning Canadian rock band that developed from a group formed by vocalist Ramon McGuire and guitarist Brian Smith in 1975...

 tribute and a Green Party

Green Party of Canada

The Green Party of Canada is a Canadian federal political party founded in 1983 with 10,000–12,000 registered members as of October 2008. The Greens advance a broad multi-issue political platform that reflects its core values of ecological wisdom, social justice, grassroots democracy and...

 cd featuring Bruce Cockburn and Bill Henderson, Joe Keithley

Joe Keithley

Joey "Shithead" Keithley is a punk musician with the band D.O.A.. He was raised in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, and attended Burnaby North Secondary. At age 11, he began playing drums. He would later take up the guitar and vocals. He owns and operates his own record company, Sudden Death...

 (D.O.A.

D.O.A. (band)

D.O.A. is a hardcore punk band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. They are often referred to as the "founders" of hardcore punk, along with Black Flag, Bad Brains, Teen Idles, and Minor Threat. Their second album Hardcore '81 was thought by many to have been the first actual reference to...

) and Bif Naked

Bif Naked

Bif Naked is a Juno Award-winning, Indian-born American-Canadian multi-platinum record selling, rock singer, writer, poet, motivational speaker and actress.-Personal life:...

. she was nominated for favourite local female in the Georgia Straight Music Awards 2000. She acted alongside Jello Biafra in the movie The Widower. She’s played shows with Our Lady Peace, Bif Naked, Paul Hyde, Strapping Young Lad, DOA, the Melvins and Jello Biafra. Performed approximately 500 live shows from 1986 to 2010 including November 29, 2003 at the Pacific Coliseum Vancouver B.C with THOR and D.O.A. May 1, 2004 at BC Place, Vancouver for (Slam City Jam)
Ani has been a member of over 12 bands from 1986 to 2010 She has done four major Canadian and US tours including a 40-city tour playing guitar for Thor.
Ani was turned into a cartoon character in the Futurama

Futurama

Futurama is an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series follows the adventures of a late 20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J...

/Simpsons

The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...

 comic - issue #2 of 2, 2002, “Infinitely Secret Crossover Crisis” page 2

Music Videos

Artist	Year	Song Title	Role	Director	Link
Thor	2002	"Fubar is a Super Rocker"	Guitar player	Mike Dowse	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LD7wfrhPqY
Ani Kyd Blues Experience	2009	"Run and Hyde"	Lead singer, songwriter	Marcus Rogers	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blf2TuLY9b8
The New Pornographers	2002	"Your Daddy Don't Know"	Lead Role – Ring Leader	Mike Dowse	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MfESZHY9Z4
Strapping Young Lad	2003	"Relentless"	Ani was producer on this video	Marcus Rogers	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rqn_otVoNU

Albums

Evil Needs Candy Too (Alternative Tentacles 2005)

1. Rejoyce
2. Creepy Feeling
3. Taste My Lips
4. My 1st Kill
5. Fingerpainting
6. Six Californian Dollars
7. 13
8. Left Holding the Bag
9. Erase
10. Left Right Left
11. So Far
12. Lost
13. Stranger Things
14. Silver Cage
15. Hardway Home
16. The Involuntary Admittance of Jack Ryd. By Michael Kyd

Ani Kyd Blues Experience (Independent 2009)

1. 2 Guns
2. Alone is for me
3. Reckless Soul
4. Run and Hyde
5. Dirty Blues
6. Miss V
7. Simply You
8. Waste of Time
9. Why do you love me
10. One step behind

Compilations

Grrrls with Guitars Compilation Volume 1 (1999) Grrrls with Guitars Records also featuring Kinnie Starr, Sandy Scofield

• "The Sun In My Eyes"

Shot Spots (2001) on Visionary Records. A Trooper tribute album also featuring DOA, Real McKenzies, SNFU

• "Boy With A Beat"

The Green Revolution (2004) also featuring Jello Biafra, Randy Bachman, Bruce Cockburn, Bif Naked, and Joe Keithley

• "Wish You Dead"

Back-Up Vocals

Sandy Scofield "Dirty River"(1994) Independent back-up vocals on "Big House"

Paul Hyde "Turtle Island"

Turtle Island (Paul Hyde album)

Turtle Island is the first solo album by Paul Hyde of the Payola$, released in 1989 by Capitol/EMI on LP, cassette and Compact Disc.-Track listing:All songs written by Paul Hyde, except as noted.Side 1# "What Am I Supposed to Do?"...

 back-up vocals on "Love Is All", and "Happy Train"

Strapping Young Lad "Alien"

Alien (album)

Alien is the fourth album by Canadian extreme metal band Strapping Young Lad. It was released on March 22, 2005. The album was written by Devin Townsend and Gene Hoglan over a 6 month time period....

  and "Strapping Young Lad"

Strapping Young Lad (album)

Strapping Young Lad is the eponymous third album by Canadian heavy metal band Strapping Young Lad. It was released on February 11, 2003.-Background:...

Jello Biafra And The Guantanamo School Of Medicine

Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine

Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine is a punk rock band led by Jello Biafra. They released their debut album, The Audacity of Hype in October 2009.-Biography:...

 "The Audacity Of Hype" back-up vocals on "Pets Eat Their Masters", "Electronic Plantation"