Anna Margaret Michelle Calvi is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. Her accolades include three Mercury Prize nominations, one Brit Award nomination, and a European Border Breakers Award. She has been noted by some critics as a virtuoso guitarist, as well as for her powerful, wide-ranging operatic contralto voice and sometimes androgynous stage appearance.
Calvi performing in September 2018
Calvi performing at the Royal Albert Hall, March 2010
Anna Calvi at the Eurockéennes de Belfort live in July 2011
Calvi performing in London, 2014
The Music Moves Europe Award, also known as the MME Award, is an annual prize recognizing the success of ten emerging artists or groups who reached audiences outside their own countries with their first internationally released album in the past year. The prize was known as the European Border Breakers Award (EBBA) until 2019, and the Music Moves Europe Talent Award (MMETA) until 2022.
EBBA Awards 2012 – All Winners
EBBA Awards 2011 – All Winners
EBBA Awards 2012 – Selah Sue wins Public Choice Award
EBBA Awards 2012 – Anna Calvi