ANNA DUBOC AT THE MINTPhoto credit: Megan Thompson 

One of the more interesting personal facts noted in 17-year-old musical multi-talent AnnaDuboc’s bio is the fact that the incredibly gifted, prolific and stylistically diversesinger/songwriter is an A student maintain that average in her second year of high school APcalculus. She probably doesn’t need higher math to keep track of her social media numbers, butthey’ve been pretty crazy, adding up to some 45 million streams on all platforms via a flurry ofdynamic singles since launching her career at 13.Writing about her life with the same emotionally expressive wit, narrative bite and vulnerabletenderness as culturally impactful icons like Taylor and Billie, Anna has amassed 220,500followers and over 1.2 million likes on TikTok, 26 million views and nearly 40,000 subscriberson her official YouTube partner channel and over 31,000 followers on Instagram. Amazingly, allof her success to date are via tracks she produced with her mom, veteran pop songwriter and jazzvocalist Carol Duboc.

The release of her upcoming single (set to drop Valentine’s week) marks a unique turning pointin that she wrote and co-produced “One Touch” – which was written when she was 14 – withJuan Ariza (Harry Styles). It’s the first release of an upcoming batch she calls the UnreleasedSeries, featuring songs from her archives which she didn’t feel were right to share when she wasyounger but seem appropriate now. Gearing up for this next phase of her career, the singer madean impressive headlining appearance with a full, high-energy band at The Mint in mid-January.She follows with a gig at Genghis Cohen February 3.When young artists are so successful so quickly in the streaming and video realm, one maywonder if they’ve got the goods live, vocally and performance wise. The great news is that Annais as charming, soulful and engaging a performer onstage as she is a masterful vocalist/producerin the studio. Though she showcased it well into the set, one of the most fascinating revelationsabout the seductive, infectious “One Touch” is that in both lyrical content and driving slowgroove, it’s up there with anything magical the Swifties are digging these days – and remember,Anna was 20 years younger than Taylor when she wrote it. The emotional core of Anna’s set wasthat one as the follow-up to her latest single “Poetry,” which allowed her to showcase her tenderskills as a piano based balladeer and the powerful range of her voice, from a soft tenderheartedcoolness to a towering emotion that sears the heart.Anna’s ten song set, a run through some of her biggest streamers from 2021 to present, offered adynamic range of rhythms and vibes, from the mid-tempo lite funk R&B/pop simmer of “80 in aFlood Rain” and plaintive, stripped down “Flowers and Graves” (backed only by the acousticguitar of MD Enzo Iannello) to one of her most compelling songs “Plot Twist” (another heart-tugging piano ballad) and the sassy, moody pop-rocker “Mystery Lady.” She closed with songstitled “Sinking Feeling” (which displayed the angelic, Billie-esque side of her voice) and“Promises from Hell,” but all her fans were too full of her lively, charismatic sunshine by thatpoint to give into the themes of darkness.

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