Anjulie
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Anjulie is the stage of name of Anjulie Persaud, a Canadian
singer/songwriter from Oakville, Ontario Canada
, a suburb outside of Toronto
. She was born and raised in Canada, and her parents are from Guyana
of Indian
descent. She is the youngest of four children. Anjulie is a self-described music addict and has been writing and composing her own music since she was a teenager. She wrote the song "Say Goodbye to Jr. High", contributed background vocals and played percussion for the CD Unfabulous and More. Her debut album was co-written and produced by Jon Levine
of the Philosopher Kings.
Anjulie opened for Jesse McCartney
during his United States tour in 2009. Her unreleased singles, "Rain", "Crazy That Way", and "The Heat" have been featured on the MTV
television series The Hills
and "Addicted2Me" on The City
. The single "Boom" has been featured on ABC
's Eastwick
, The CW
's Melrose Place
, The Vampire Diaries
, and Canada's Next Top Model
.
Anjulie wrote the single "Don't Call Me Baby
" by Canadian recording artist Kreesha Turner
which reached number eight on Billboard's Canadian Hot 100 in 2008 and number one on the US Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play Chart.
Influences on Anjulie's music are as varied as Annie Lennox
, Lauryn Hill
, U2
and Prince
.
She cowrote the single "I Want You" with its performer Fefe Dobson
. Music videos have been released and the song appears on Dobson's album, Joy
(2010). "I Want You" has appeared on various projects ranging from promos for TV shows to promos for films to even a version recorded in Simlish
for the PC game The Sims 3: World Adventures
. On October 14, 2009 Dobson announced via her official imeem
, Twitter
(in graphic), Facebook
and more that she will perform and that Anjulie will be a special guest at one of the PINKtober
events, a benefit concert held at the Hard Rock Cafe
in Hollywood, CA on October 22, 2009.
Anjulie's music is featured in the 2009 movie/musical Fame
. She wrote and performed "Big Things" which plays during the opening scene of the film.
Anjulie has toured with Shwayze
and Bobby Ray aka B.o.B. and she toured Fall/Winter (2009–2010) with Raphael Saadiq
.
"Rain" debuted on Billboard's Hot Dance/Club Play charts in November 2009 at number forty-eight. After nine weeks on the chart it reached a peak of three.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
singer/songwriter from Oakville, Ontario Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, a suburb outside of Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
. She was born and raised in Canada, and her parents are from Guyana
Guyana
Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...
of Indian
Indo-Guyanese
Indo-Guyanese are mostly descendants of indentured labourers from India who are citizens or nationals of Guyana. They are often referred to as Indians or East Indians...
descent. She is the youngest of four children. Anjulie is a self-described music addict and has been writing and composing her own music since she was a teenager. She wrote the song "Say Goodbye to Jr. High", contributed background vocals and played percussion for the CD Unfabulous and More. Her debut album was co-written and produced by Jon Levine
Jon Levine
Jon Levine is a singer/songwriter best known as keyboardist and primary songwriter for the Canadian band Philosopher Kings. His brother is Jason Levine, of the pop band Prozzäk, and the former bassist of the Philosopher Kings. He is also the musical director for the childrens television show...
of the Philosopher Kings.
Anjulie opened for Jesse McCartney
Jesse McCartney
Jesse McCartney is an American singer-songwriter, actor and voice actor. McCartney achieved fame in the late 1990s on the daytime drama All My Children as JR Chandler. He later joined boy band Dream Street, and eventually branched out into a solo musical career...
during his United States tour in 2009. Her unreleased singles, "Rain", "Crazy That Way", and "The Heat" have been featured on the MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
television series The Hills
The Hills
The Hills is a reality television series which originally aired on MTV from May 31, 2006 until July 13, 2010. The show uses a reality television format, following the personal lives of several young adults living in Los Angeles, California, but tends towards a narrative format more commonly found...
and "Addicted2Me" on The City
The City (MTV series)
The City is an MTV reality television series. The first spin-off of MTV's, The Hills, it follows one of the show's former cast members, Whitney Port, as she moves to New York City to work for fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg. The program premiered on December 29, 2008 and concluded its first...
. The single "Boom" has been featured on ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
's Eastwick
Eastwick
Eastwick could refer to:Locations*Eastwick, Hertfordshire, a hamlet and civil parish in England. See List of places in Hertfordshire.*Eastwick, London, a new town to be built on the site of Olympic Park, London, east of Hackney Wick...
, The CW
The CW Television Network
The CW Television Network is a television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006–2007 television season. It is a joint venture between CBS Corporation, the former owners of United Paramount Network , and Time Warner's Warner Bros., former majority owner of The WB...
's Melrose Place
Melrose Place (2009 TV series)
Melrose Place is an American television series broadcast on The CW Television Network from September 8, 2009 to April 13, 2010. The fifth series in the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise, it is an updated version of the 1990s Fox prime time drama of the same name, featuring a group of young adults...
, The Vampire Diaries
The Vampire Diaries (TV series)
The Vampire Diaries is an American supernatural drama television series developed by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec, based on the book series of the same name written by L. J. Smith. The series premiered on The CW Television Network on September 10, 2009, and is currently in its third season that...
, and Canada's Next Top Model
Canada's Next Top Model
Canada's Next Top Model is a Canadian reality show in which female contestants compete for the title "Canada's Next Top Model" and a chance to start their career in the modeling industry...
.
Anjulie wrote the single "Don't Call Me Baby
Don't Call Me Baby (Kreesha Turner song)
"Don't Call Me Baby" is a pop–R&B song performed by Canadian singer Kreesha Turner for her debut studio album, Passion . The track was released as the album's second single in May 2008 in Canada. It has since peaked at #8 on the Canadian Hot 100...
" by Canadian recording artist Kreesha Turner
Kreesha Turner
Kreesha Turner , is a Canadian R&B/pPop recording artist. She cites as her inspirations R&B acts such as Erykah Badu, Jill Scott and D'Angelo, hip-hop acts including A Tribe Called Quest, Andre 3000 and Common and rock acts like the Foo Fighters and Our Lady Peace.-Early life:The oldest of three...
which reached number eight on Billboard's Canadian Hot 100 in 2008 and number one on the US Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play Chart.
Influences on Anjulie's music are as varied as Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox, OBE , born Ann Lennox, is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving minor success in the late 1970s with The Tourists, with fellow musician David A...
, Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Noelle Hill is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress.Early in her career, she established her reputation as a member of the Fugees. In 1998, she launched her solo career with the release of the commercially successful and critically acclaimed album, The Miseducation of...
, U2
U2
U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...
and Prince
Prince
Prince is a general term for a ruler, monarch or member of a monarch's or former monarch's family, and is a hereditary title in the nobility of some European states. The feminine equivalent is a princess...
.
She cowrote the single "I Want You" with its performer Fefe Dobson
Fefe Dobson
Felicia Lily "Fefe" Dobson is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Her self-titled debut album earned her two Juno Award nominations. Her second album, Sunday Love, was not released and she was terminated from her recording company...
. Music videos have been released and the song appears on Dobson's album, Joy
Joy (Fefe Dobson album)
Joy is the second studio album to be released by Canadian singer-songwriter Fefe Dobson, and third studio album to be recorded. It was released on November 22, 2010 after taking almost four years to complete. It candidly follows Dobson's evolution as an artist as well as transition from the indie...
(2010). "I Want You" has appeared on various projects ranging from promos for TV shows to promos for films to even a version recorded in Simlish
Simlish
Simlish is a fictional language featured in EA Games' Sim series of games. It debuted in SimCopter, and has been especially prominent in The Sims, The Sims 2 and The Sims 3. The Sims development team created the unique Simlish language by experimenting with fractured Ukrainian, French, Latin,...
for the PC game The Sims 3: World Adventures
The Sims 3: World Adventures
During an interview, producer Lyndsay Pearson said that real-world locations were a draw for their players and that users had been creating famous buildings on the exchange. The expansion pack represented an extension of that desire...
. On October 14, 2009 Dobson announced via her official imeem
Imeem
The online service imeem was a social media web site where users interacted with each other by streaming, uploading and sharing music and music videos...
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
(in graphic), Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
and more that she will perform and that Anjulie will be a special guest at one of the PINKtober
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Breast Cancer Awareness Month is an annual international health campaign organized by major breast cancer charities every October to increase awareness of the disease and to raise funds for research into its cause, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure...
events, a benefit concert held at the Hard Rock Cafe
Hard Rock Cafe
Hard Rock Cafe is a chain of theme restaurants founded in 1971 by Americans Peter Morton & Isaac Tigrett. In 1979, the cafe began covering its walls with rock and roll memorabilia, a tradition which expanded to others in the chain. In 2006, Hard Rock was sold to the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and...
in Hollywood, CA on October 22, 2009.
Anjulie's music is featured in the 2009 movie/musical Fame
Fame (2009 film)
Fame is a 2009 musical film and a loose remake of the 1980 film of the same title. It was directed by Kevin Tancharoen and written by Allison Burnett. It was released on September 25, 2009 in the USA, Canada, Ireland, and the UK.-Freshman year:...
. She wrote and performed "Big Things" which plays during the opening scene of the film.
Anjulie has toured with Shwayze
Shwayze
Aaron Smith , better known by his stage name Shwayze, is an American rapper.Born and raised in Malibu, California, Shwayze worked at a local Starbucks coffee shop until he met Whitestarr frontman Cisco Adler at a nightclub. One night Shwayze jumped on stage during Whitestarr's performance and...
and Bobby Ray aka B.o.B. and she toured Fall/Winter (2009–2010) with Raphael Saadiq
Raphael Saadiq
Raphael Saadiq is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. Saadiq has been a standard bearer for "old school" R&B since his early days as a member of the multiplatinum group Tony! Toni! Toné! He also produced songs of such artists as TLC, Joss Stone, D'Angelo, Mary J...
.
Albums
- AnjulieAnjulie (album)Anjulie is the debut studio album by Canadian recording artist Anjulie, released by Starbucks record label Hear Music on August 4, 2009 in Canada and the United States...
(2009) - TBA (2012)
Singles
| Year | Single | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN Canadian Hot 100 The Canadian Hot 100 is a music singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks songs in Canada. The chart debuted in the Billboard issue dated June 16, 2007 and was made available for the first time via their online services on June 7, 2007... |
Hot Dance Club Play Hot Dance Club Play The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs... |
Certifications Music recording sales certification Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,... (sales thresholds) |
Album | ||||||
| 2008 | "Boom" | — | 1 | Anjulie | |||||
| 2009 | "Love Songs" | — | 8 | ||||||
| 2009 | "Rain" | — | 3 | ||||||
| 2011 | "Brand New Chick" | 16 | 5 | CAN: Platinum | "TBA" | ||||
| 2011 | "Stand Behind The Music" | — | — | — | |||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||||||
Chart performance
Released on August 4, 2009, Anjulie's self-titled CD reached number two on the US Billboard "Heatseekers Albums" chart and number 108 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart. The album's first single "Boom", released in 2008, reached number one on the US Dance chart in 2009. Remixes of follow-up "Love Songs" reached the Top 10 on Billboard's Hot Dance/Club Play charts in October 2009."Rain" debuted on Billboard's Hot Dance/Club Play charts in November 2009 at number forty-eight. After nine weeks on the chart it reached a peak of three.
Awards and nominations
- In 2009, Anjulie was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award for "Best Breakthrough Video"
- Also in 2009, she was nominated for mtvUMtvUmtvU is a division of Viacom's MTV Networks which produces a 24-hour television channel that is available on more than 750 college and university campuses across the United States, as well as several digital cable packages...
Woodie Award for "Best Video Woodie" for her single "Boom".