Anne Hills
Anne Hills is an American folk singer-songwriter.
Hills was born to a family of missionaries in Moradabad, India, and grew up in Michigan, United States. She studied at the Interlochen Center for the Arts, where she played in a band with Chris Brubeck and Peter Erskine. In 1976, she moved to Chicago and was a co-founder of the record label Hogeye Music. After releasing a few records on Hogeye, the label was bought out by Flying Fish Records in the mid-1980s. In 1984, Hills briefly was a member of a trio known as the Best of Friends. In 1988 she began collaborating with Cindy Mangsen, with whom she released two duo albums. Together with Priscilla Herdman the three singers recorded as a trio in 1990 and again in 1997. In 1998, she contributed renditions to tribute albums for Pete Seeger and Phil Ochs. The 2000s saw her collaborating with Tom Paxton and singing in a fourpiece called Fourtold with Steve Gillette, Mangsen, and Michael Peter Smith. Hills was awarded the Kate Wolf Memorial Award by the World Folk Music Association in 2002.
In addition to her musical endeavors, Hills also acts on the live stage. Additionally, she collaborated with Liz Paxson on a children's book with an accompanying album, featuring Hills and her daughter, Tamlyn. She lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and is married to Mark Moss, editor of Sing Out!.Discography
- Woman of a Calm Heart
- The Panic is On
- Don't Explain
- On This Day Earth Shall Sing
- Woman of a Calm Heart
- October Child
- Angle of the Light
- Bittersweet Street
- Paradise Lost & Found
- Under American Skies
- Fourtold
- Best of Friends
- Beauty Attends: The Heartsongs of Opal Whiteley
- Ef You Don't Watch Out
- Points of View
- Rhubarb Trees
- The Things I Notice Now: Anne Hills Sings the Songs of Tom Paxton
- Tracks
- Fragile Gifts
;With Cindy Mangsen
;With Cindy Mangsen and Priscilla Herdman
- Voices
- Voices of Winter
- At the Turning of the Year