She previously worked at E! News and the Today show and is a Boston University graduate. Anna Rose didn't grow up watching Disney movies. Instead, she grew up watching somebody write the song that would soundtrack the Disney movie.
Arguably, everything she needed to know about music composition she learned as a child. So, by the time Anna Rose was just 7 years old, her father, famous Disney composer Alan Menken , was already providing his daughter with notes on the original songs she was writing. OK, rewrite it in the style of Sheryl Crow. The fact that Anna Rose even knew what her father meant with such feedback is proof enough that a knack for making music runs in the family.
Fast forward some 30 years, and the independent artist is celebrating the latest release of her upcoming album Last Girl of the Rodeo. The song is called " Alameda ," and it's a track about escapism, courage and dreams.
It's a little island, and I fictionalized this place that I could run to. I was going through a really difficult time, and I was trying to leave a lot of things behind in my life.
It really made me brave and allowed me to leave a situation that wasn't right for me anymore," she added. Anna Rose is also kicking off a tour with David Ramirez beginning in mid-April, and despite the deeply personal nature of "Alameda," she says she can't wait to perform the track out on the road. It's a song that people are excited to hear the recording of because I've played it so much live. This is the first song that people have really sung along and sung the words back to me," she says.
