Die in Berlin ansässige Masha Qrella sorgte in den letzten 20+ Jahren mit ihrem hervorragenden Songwriting und ihrer unvergleichlichen Art, verschiedene Elemente zu einem stimmigen Sound zu verschmelzen, für Entzückung bei Kritikern und Fans. Ihr aktuelles Album "Keys" wurde von der Presse regelrecht in den Himmel gelobt.

In der Vergangenheit spielte sie unter anderem mit Calexico und Yo La Tengo, ihre Songs liefen in Serien wie Greys Anatomy. Nach weltweiten Tourneen u.a. auch in den USA und Japan wird die Multiinstrumentalistin und Ausnahme-Sängerin am 7. April die Bühne im Berliner Lido beehren.

“Wie der unter Leuten monadisch für sich alleine Tanzende behaupten ihre Songs eine unanfechtbare Intimität.” – SPEX

“Unter den von sanften Beats unterlegten Singer/Songwriter-Stücken sind richtige Hits … die Musik wird getragen von der Stimme Qrellas, der man Verletzlichkeit genauso anhört wie Geradlinigkeit.” – TAZ

Anni Rossi is a songwriter, producer and performance maker from Minnesota, currently living in Brooklyn, New York. Her music spans multiple genres and draws from elements of folk, indie, Americana, classical music and R&B. She has released several critically acclaimed EPs and albums, including 2009’s Rockwell, which was recorded in Chicago with engineer Steve Albini and released internationally by British record label 4AD. She is notable for writing and performing with an electric viola that was handcrafted from a tree branch by her friend and former Swans percussionist Thor Harris. In 2014, she was commissioned by the Whitney Museum as a composer and performer of The Berlin Sun Theater inc ollaboration with award-winning Marxist anthropologist Michael Taussig. She premiered a new solo performance piece in July 2018 called Watertower Dreams at the Redeye Theater in Minneapolis. It was a hybrid experimentation of original songs, musical improvisation and an array of characters which were all performed by Rossi. Her latest offering, House on the Seaside, was recorded and co-produced by Best Coast guitarist Bobb Bruno at his Yeti’s Lair studio in Eagle Rock, California. It comes after a series of mixtapes on which Rossi experimented with different recording techniques and musical styles, blending R&B music, tape recordings and prank phone calls. Seaside is a fusion of Rossi’s musical past and present, mixing her unconventional way of playing her electric viola with a vocal style that nods towards modern R&B and the great jazz singers of the twentieth century.

“Rossi demonstrates how stunning music can be when kept stark and simple” — Pitchfork 8.0

“Uncharacteristic gorgeousness” — Paste Magazine

“She stays on the move, with uncertainty wherever she alights!” — New York Times

“You can’t teach a mind to write and perform songs this way” — Paste Magazine / Daytrotter