Deborah Anderson and Jon Anderson hand in hand
March 29th, 2007 by Koldo Barroso
Deborah Anderson and her father Jon Anderson are working together in several tracks for the forthcoming release of her coffee table book ‘Paperthin’, which will include her latest music works and a collection of photography inspired in the 1920’s.
Deborah has recently posted a track called “The Key” at her site in Myspace, in collaboration with Jon, which is a wonderful sample of her latest brilliant works. The song is part of an electronic music project called ‘Messertraum’, which features Andreas Dietrich Allen and Sebastian Arocha Morton from Berlin, plus the collaboration of J.B. Eckl from Outside, and Vikter Duplaix.
Deborah Anderson was born in London in 1970. She grew up surrounded with musicians and as a child she got used to see his father working at the garage studio at home. Her first professional experience was in 1979 when she collaborated singing a duet with her father in the album ‘Song of Seven’, which they also performed live at London’s Royal Albert Hall on December the 1st 1980. This was the first of numerous collaborations with her father, including guess vocals on the albums ‘Deseo’ (1994) and ‘Toltec’ (1996). In 1993, Deborah was also part of Jon Anderson’s band during the South American Tour.

Apart from her notorious musical talent, Deborah has turned into a wonderful photographer. After running a shop of vintage fashion in London, Deborah started almost by chance taking photographs of models to show her own collections. Today, she has worked for renowned magazines such as GQ, Elle and Cosmopolitan. Her photography and music are two sides of the same coin, both of them showing a rich world of sensitivity and sensuality. Her music, inspired in the personal search of her feelings and her personal identity in the spiritual world, creates a delicate world of deep emotions. Music that recognizes the relationship between the artist and the spiritual world and portraits a very personal universe, in the same manner as other brave female artists like Bjork, Kate Bush, Elizabeth Carpenter, Rachel Foster and Goldfrapp.
Deborah Anderson worked with the renowned electronic artist Alex Reece, including the release of the hit ‘Feel The Sunshine’. In 1998, she signed to Mo Wax label and she worked with some of the most talented artists in electronic music, including DJ Shadow, DJ Krush, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Le Tone, and Telepopmusik.
Deborah has been collecting a set of exquisite electronic and vocal music pieces that announce her forthcoming work as one of the most interesting and touching musical works today. Jon Anderson is currently working hand by hand with her in new material for her album. Let’s not forget that Jon is married to Jane Anderson, who has often collaborated on vocals in several solo albums, and he is also the father of another two talented people: Damion Anderson, singer of the rock band Zen State, and Jade Anderson who is a reputed pop singer today and has a successful solo album out, ‘Dive Deeper’.
