Annika Rands

Annika Rands spent her youth attending theatre classes and performing in amateur productions before she went on to study in London at Rose Bruford College of Performance. In 2006 she graduated with a BA Honours (2:1) in American Theatre Studies, which involved spending the second year of study living in Texas.

Staying in London after graduating she started on the long process of audition after audition and was soon off around Europe working in theatre shows and then started a long period of work on cruise ships for P&O and then later for Thomson Cruises. She was lead female vocalist in the show-team on-board several ships, mainly on the Thomson Spirit and then their newest ship The Dream. She performed in nightly theatre shows and also performed her own cabaret weekly and got to travel the world for the past 5 years.

Returning home in the summer of 2011 to focus her energies on a career on home turf Annika has been singing with Essex-based show band ‘Velvet Touch‘, and also an Abba Tribute, alongside auditioning in London. The time came for her to invest in her own state of the art PA equipment and she is now focused on performing as a solo artist. Adaptable to any venue or occasion and performing songs from motown to pop to musical theatre. Can also do requests with prior notice.