On my radar: Anna Calvi’s cultural highlights

The musician on Nick Cave’s showmanship, Grace Jones’s groundbreaking cool and the inspirational power of drag kingsMusician Anna Calvi was born in 1980 in London. She studied guitar and violin at the University of Southampton before working as a guitar teacher, only beginning to sing in her mid-20s. Both her albums to date, Anna Calvi (2011) and One Breath (2013), were nominated for the Mercury music prize. She has collaborated with David Byrne and last year wrote the music for th...

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