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Anya Marina
American musician (born 1976)
Anya Marina Kroth is an American singer-songwriter, based in New York City. Her music has been featured on several television shows, including Grey's Anatomy, How I Met Your Mother, The Real World, Castle, United States of Tara, Gossip Girl, Batwoman, The Vampire Diaries, and Supernatural.
Her songs have been featured on the soundtrack of The Twilight Saga: New Moon soundtrack and 13 Reasons Why Season 2 soundtrack. Marina also authored the theme song for the Nikki Glaser Podcast and frequently collaborates with her indie-rocker husband's band, Matt Pond PA.
Marina was born Anya Marina Kroth in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and was raised in Cupertino, California, as the elder of two sisters. Her parents are both university professors, who teach psychology and Russian literature. She moved to Los Angeles as an aspiring actress and attended classes at the British American Drama Academy and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She has acted on television and in films (100 Girls). She returned to Cupertino to earn her Bachelor of Arts degree in writing and linguistics from Santa Clara University, where she appeared in music video for Faith No More and episodes of The Mr. T Experience, Unsolved Mysteries and others. In college, she worked as a DJ on KSCU and was the lead singer of the Bay Area band...
After graduating in 1997, Anya appeared on The Howard Stern Show as "Anya the Au Pair", a woman wanting to be the au pair for Stern's children. After that appearance, she was hired by Mike Halloran at radio station XHRM-FM in San Diego, California, then at Y107 in Los Angeles, Premium Radio in North San Diego County, California, and finally at KBZT FM 94/9 for six years.
Anya Marina Kroth (Ann Arbor, September 23, 1976) is a singer-songwriter based in Portland, Oregon. Her music has primarily gained notice after being on a variety of television sitcoms and has been featured on prime time dramas.the ABC television drama Grey's Anatomy as well as CBS's How I Met Your Mother, MTV's The Real World, ABC's Castle, Showtime's United States of Tara, CW's Gossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries, and Supernatural and has a song featured on the Twilight "New Moon" soundtrack.
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Liner notes
Anya Marina, the records, oldest first
Exercises in Racketeering
2004 ep
Miss Halfway
2005 album
Slow & Steady Seduction: Phase II
2008 album
Spirit School
2010 ep
Felony Flats
2011 album
Paper Plane
2016 album
Serious Love
2017 ep
Over You
2019 ep
Queen of the Night
2020 album
ASTEROID
2024 album
Records from MusicBrainz; covers from the Cover Art Archive.
