Seventeen-year-old vocalist, Anaïs Reno has always felt a bit different from her fellow humans. While she has won multiple musical awards and scholarships and has been performing since she was ten, Anaïs is not your typical exuberant teen but rather, one who is attracted to the darker side of things, a singer who has to remind herself not to include too many ballads in her sets.

Another outsider, Billy Strayhorn, started writing his much-celebrated composition “Lush Life” when he was just eighteen, so it seems fitting that Anaïs connects so deeply with Strayhorn, whom she celebrates along with another favorite, Duke Ellington, on her debut CD, Lovesome Thing, which she recorded in 2020, in the thick of the lockdown experience.