Anne Amie

Anne Amie (born 25 February) is an Indian playback singer and voice artist. She marked her debut in playback singing with the solo 'Ethu Meghamaari – Reprise' for the film Kochavva Paulo Ayyappa Coelho. She received her first Filmfare Award in 2019 for the song 'Aararo' from the movie Koode. She debuted as a voice artist in malayalam cinema in 2020, dubbing for Kalyani Priyadarshan in Varane Avashyamund.

Early life
Anne Amie started singing at the age of 7. She was awarded first prize in Kerala State CBSE Youth Festival's Light Music competition in the Sub-Junior Category in the year 2000, while she was studying at 'Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Thrissur'. She did most of her schooling in Dubai, her alma mater being 'Our Own English High School, Dubai'. During this time, she was a regular at youth festivals and was awarded 'Kalathilakam' four times. She used to take part in multiple categories such as Light Music Malayalam and Hindi, Carnatic Music, Malayalam Poetry Recitation, Mappilapattu etc. She did her BBA from Christ University, Bangalore. She was part of the University's cultural team and in her final academic year, she was the University's Cultural Secretary, leading a cultural team of over 100 students. She did her Master's in International Business from University of Wollongong in Dubai and graduated as 'Top Graduate' of her batch. She was also a recipient of the "Dubai Academic Excellence Award", given that she had scored the highest aggregate across all the master's degree courses at the University.

Career
She was one of the 42 finalists in the music reality show, 'Idea Star Singer – Season 2' on Asianet. She was also one of the 7 finalists from Dubai in the music reality show, 'Indian Idol – Season 3'. Prior to entering the film industry, she was working at the American multinational investment banking firm, Goldman Sachs, in their human capital management division. Post her post graduation, she was working at the American web services provider, Yahoo!, as a creative analyst, which is when she debuted in the playback singing field. She was juggling between both professions for almost a year until she decided to call it quits and focus on just one, i.e. her music and cinema journey. She has worked with known music directors such as M. Jayachandran, Deepak Dev, Bijibal, Raghu Dixit, Shaan Rahman, Justin Prabhakaran, Gopi Sunder, Alphons Joseph, Ratheesh Vega, Jassie Gift, Shahabaz Aman, Afzal Yusuf, Mejo Joseph, Sushin Shyam, Hesham Abdul Wahab, Ifthi, Govind Vasantha, Vishal Chandrasekhar, Mujeeb Majeed, Neha Nair & Yakzan Gary Pereira, Arun Muraleedharan, William Francis, PS Jayhari, Mathews Pulickan, Varkey, Varun Sunil, Varun Krrishna, Rhithwik S. Chand, Ranjith Meleppat, A. R. Rakesh.