Robyn Adele Anderson
Background information
Born	(1989-02-19) February 19, 1989 Albany, New York, U.S.
Genres	Jazz, pop
Occupation(s)	Singer, actress
Instrument(s)	Vocals
Years active	2011–present
Website	robynadele.com

Robyn Adele Anderson (born February 19, 1989) is an American singer and stage actress based in New York City. She is a cast member and featured artist for Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox with over 250 million YouTube views on her music videos. She is credited with the band's breakthrough covers of "Thrift Shop" and "We Can't Stop" in 2013.^[1][2][3][4] Anderson also performed lead vocals for performances on Good Morning America (ABC) in 2013,^[5] and TEDx in 2014.^[6]

Early life and education

Robyn Adele Anderson was born in Albany, New York. She grew up in Glenmont, New York with her mother, father, and half-sister. She is of German, Dutch, English, Scottish, and Native American descent. She attended Bethlehem Central High School where she played clarinet in the Wind Ensemble and sang in several choral groups.^[7]

She graduated from Binghamton University in 2011 with a Bachelors of Arts degree in Political Science and Arabic and concentrations in Middle Eastern Studies and International Affairs. She studied at the University of Seville in Spain for a semester in 2009 and became a study-abroad peer adviser.^[8] Her academic accomplishments won her the Israel J. Rosefksy Language and Culture Scholarship and the Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence in 2011.^[9] She was also selected as the intern for Binghamton's Planet Library project, an internationalization effort.^[10]

Career

From 2012 to 2015, Anderson worked for the ANSOB Center for Refugees, a non-profit organization in Astoria, NY that assists refugees in obtaining legal and social services.^[11]

In February 2013, Anderson began collaborating with American pianist and musical arranger Scott Bradlee, becoming a founding member of Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox collective. In 2013, Anderson's vocal contributions to the Postmodern Jukebox cover of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' "Thrift Shop" (2012) helped the video receive one million views on YouTube in its first week and four million in its first year.^{[3][12][13][14][1][15][16]}

After serving as Postmodern Jukebox' primary vocalist, Anderson started producing music under her own name. The music was released on YouTube and other platforms.^[17] As of August 2021, her YouTube channel has over 653,000 subscribers and over 84 million views.

In January 2014, she became a staff writer for the online K-pop magazine KpopStarz.^[18]

In 2015, she was cast as Lilyan Tashman in Cynthia von Buhler's Speakeasy Dollhouse: Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic at the Liberty Theatre.^[19][20]

In 2016, she played the part of Lucile in FlexCo.'s production of The Flying Doctor at the Central Booking Art Space in the Lower East Side.^[21] Occasionally she is a guest vocalist for the musical duo The Skivvies, composed of Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley.^[22]

In 2017, Anderson began a series of solo shows, first at Feinstein's/54 Below^[23] followed by several at Sleep No More's Manderley Bar, and a two-week tour in 2018 alongside Von Smith.

Anderson voiced the character Robin Koninsky (a Polish singer) in the 2018 video game Red Dead Redemption 2. Other members of Postmodern Jukebox also made appearances. In the same year, Robyn Adele (Vol 1.) was released on Bandcamp.^[17]

Discography

References

External links

• Official website
• Robyn Adele Anderson at IMDb