In 2008, Lee Anna Culp first stepped into the music scene with a five song EP entitled Words & Actions, Fists & Distractions. Later that year, she started making appearances and getting noticed on local Birmingham, Alabama ABC and NBC news stations, establishing her name around her home-town by performing benefit concerts for causes like the American Cancer Society, United Cerebral Palsy, Locals for Haiti, Beach Preservation etc.
Since then, Lee Anna has played with acts like Hightide Blues (The Grand Magnolias), Tim Brantley, Bryan Gibson, Stoll Vaughan, Tyler Hilton, Josiah Leming, Neil Couvillion, Eliott Morris, Ryan Horne etc.
She was the featured on the front page of the 2010 September issue of Arts in Alabama magazine as well as having appeared in publications like the Black & White, the Birmingham Weekly and the Nashville Scene.
Her first full-length album, Bells and Doves was released in January 2010 at the Workplay theater. The single from the album, entitled “Keep me posted” was a cynical upbeat pop anthem questioning young love and marriage. The song debuted on the local alternative station, Live 100.5 in early 2010. The single is also currently under contract to be used in a Hallmark movie called “Nearlyweds” set to air on Jan. 12, 2013 featuring Danielle Panabaker and Naomi Judd.
In February 2012 another track from her Bells and Doves album, “Whatever will be” was featured in countries across Southeast Asia as the backing track for a promotional commercial for FOX’s third season of hit show Glee. The two-minute, thirty-second ballad serves as an anthem for any jaded, young person facing an uncertain future. The song isn’t structurally typical, making the placement of “Whatever will be” in the commercial an even bigger personal victory for Lee Anna:
“I love that song. But it was sort of the black sheep of Bells and Doves– the last song on the album. It didn’t even have a real chorus…just one streaming thought, but it summed up the album and where I was at in life perfectly. And now all these young kids in Taiwan are tweeting me telling me it touched their hearts.”
The trailer can be viewed on YouTube.
Since then she’s continued to conquer that side of the hemisphere: her tracks “I do” and “Keep me posted” from Bells and Doves were used for tv shows in Poland, France and Australia.
For each month of 2012 Lee Anna is releasing an entire album’s worth of free music from her website www.LeeAnnaCulp.com, Soundcloud, and Facebook page– one free single a month to form the new compilation entitled the Brandywine Project.
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