Anna LaCazio is an American vocalist, best known as a member of the American pop rock

Pop rock

Pop rock is a music genre which mixes a catchy pop style and light lyrics in its guitar-based rock songs. There are varying definitions of the term, ranging from a slower and mellower form of rock music to a subgenre of pop music...

 band Cock Robin

Cock Robin (band)

Cock Robin is an American pop rock band, mostly popular in the 1980s, particularly in continental Europe where they became famous. The band was founded by singer-songwriter Peter Kingsbery in 1982, disbanded in 1990, and reformed in 2006.-History:...

. She is the daughter of an Italian

Italian people

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 father and a Chinese

Chinese people

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 mother.

With Cock Robin

She co-founded the band with Peter Kingsbery

Peter Kingsbery

Peter Kingsbery is an American singer songwriter who cofounded the band Cock Robin in the 1980s. He grew up in Austin where he studied classical music...

 in the early '80s in Los Angeles, and remained with the group through three albums and tours with, among others, Bryan Adams

Bryan Adams

Bryan Adams, is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, bassist, producer, actor and photographer. Adams has won dozens of awards and nominations, including 20 Juno Awards among 56 nominations. He has also received 15 Grammy Award nominations including a win for Best Song Written...

, the Bangles

The Bangles

The Bangles are an American all-female band that originated in the early 1980s, scoring several hit singles during the decade.-Formation and early years :...

 and James Taylor

James Taylor

James Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Taylor was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000....

.

Outside of Europe, Cock Robin

Cock Robin (band)

Cock Robin is an American pop rock band, mostly popular in the 1980s, particularly in continental Europe where they became famous. The band was founded by singer-songwriter Peter Kingsbery in 1982, disbanded in 1990, and reformed in 2006.-History:...

 never became famous, and the group dissolved in 1990.

In 2006 she took active part in the reforming of Cock Robin and the release of their fourth studio album, followed by a live album and a new tour in 2009.

Solo career

During the 90s, LaCazio sang occasional backup for artists from Corey Hart to Purple Mountain Matinee and made an album, Eat Life, that was released June 23rd, 2009.

She also appeared on Kingsbery's 1997 release 'Pretty Ballerina', reinterpreting one of their Cock Robin moments, "More Than Willing".

She moved from Los Angeles to the California desert, where she also has been performing as part of Ra Sol.

In 2008, she contributed a reading of her poem "A Song for Lost Blossoms" to the album of same name by Harold Budd

Harold Budd

Harold Budd is an American ambient/avant-garde composer and poet. Born in Los Angeles, he was raised in the Mojave Desert, and was inspired at an early age by the humming tone caused by wind blown across telephone wires....

and former Cock Robin member Clive Wright.

External links

• [ Short biography at Allmusic.com]
• Cock Robin Forum
• Official Cock Robin MySpace (with samples from the last album)