Anjulie is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and producer who has two released albums. The 39-years old musician has collaborated with numerous well-known singers and DJs. Many of her songs have been featured in popular TV reality shows and TV series, including The Vampire Diaries. On this page, you will find factual information with respect to the artist, and you will get familiar with some of her most popular works released over the years. Of course, details regarding her life and early career will also be provided.
Anjulie’s Life Before the Fame
Anjulie Persaud was born on May 21st, 1983. The artist was born in Oakville, Ontario, and that’s also the place where she grew up. Anjulie is the youngest of four siblings, and she always felt some kind of connection to music. When she was younger, she went to St. Ignatius of Loyola Catholic Secondary School in Oakville.
Since she couldn’t make friends with a lot of people at school, Anjulie would go home after classes, and she’d listen to her favourite songs. Music was an inseparable part of Anjulie’s childhood. Her parents listened to reggae music all the time. As she grew up, she found that she actually finds true joy in listening to all types of songs. At one point, she became so fond of music that she decided she will, one day, be on stage. That’s when, apart from listening, she also started singing and writing songs.
How Did It All Start
The moment when Anjulie decided that maybe music is her vocation was after seeing one of Janet Jackson’s most prominent performances, namely The Velvet Rope Tour. That was the singer’s third tour, and it attracted lots of attention from her fans and the media. The reason being is that Jackson made the performance in the form of storybook telling that showed her struggle with depression, low self-esteem, and other personal problems she had to deal with over the years.
Anjulie was immensely impressed by the way of presenting the show, as well as Janet’s talent as a singer. The Canadian star-to-be started writing songs in her spare time, and she recorded a few acoustic songs. When she was a teenager, the young talented girl wrote her very first song Say Goodbye to Jr. High.
Not long after, Anjuie signed up on MySpace and started uploading her projects there. She wanted to become famous, so she was doing her best to popularize her account at the time. One day, she was handing out flyers with information regarding her MySpace profile, and as luck would have it, Jesse Mccartney happened to be there. That was the very first encounter of the male singer with Anjulie.
Two years later, she performed at his own concert. In fact, that was Anjulie’s debut on stage. She sang one of her most well-known songs Boom, and it was strongly applauded by the audience. Before going out on stage for the first time, she was noticed by Corey Smith, the manager of the rapper Talib Kweli. It didn’t take long for the artist to sign a label deal and become a partner with Smith. She recorded the song and video of Boom and was feeling ready to go on stage with Mccartney.
Anjulie’s Success as A Singer and Songwriter
Apart from Boom, Anjulie released a few other songs that received massive approval. Two of them were The Heat and Crazy That Way. In fact, The Heat became so popular that they were featured on a well-liked American TV reality show named The Hills. The show The City also contributed to the popularization of another song of Anjulie – Addicted2Me. Although this is not one of her most prominent singles, the song’s number of views on YouTube surely did increase after Addicted2Me aired on The City.
The major success of Boom, however, came when the song was featured in one of The Vampire Diaries’ episodes. This is one of the most well-known and favoured TV series ever released. The American supernatural drama premiered in 2009, and fans of the show enjoyed eight seasons full of suspense, mystery, and love stories. Boom played in one of the very first episodes of season one.
In the period between 2009 and 2010, Anjulie went on a tour with Aaron Smith, who goes under the pseudonym of Shwayze, Raphael Saadiq. and B.o.B. In addition to all this, Anjulie was invited by the former Canadian group Hedley to perform on of their tours, where they presented their album Storms.
The following years were marked with success, as well. After the numerous tours Anjulie went on, she dedicated her time to producing new songs. In a period of approximately two years, she recorded five songs that are still well-liked today:
- Brand New Bi**c, a.k.a Brand New Chick
- White Lights
- You and I
- Headphones
- Stand Behind the Music
Nominations and Awards
Anjulie officially entered the world of music in 2009. That was the year when she signed a contract with Corey Smith and recorded and released her debut Boom. That was the first song of Anjulie that was nominated for the MTV category of “Best Breakthrough Video”. In the same year, Boom also entered the list of MTV nominations for “Best Video Woodie”.
2011 was probably one of Anjulie’s best years, when it comes to career success due to the fact that her song Brand New Chick reached the 16th number on the Canadian Hot 100 Billboard’s ranking. Not only this but her single was also certified by Music Canada as Platinum. People were crazy about this song, and it could be listened to in every club not only in Canada but on a global scale as well.
Just when Anjulie thought things could not get any better than this, in 2012, the song was nominated for “Dance Recording of the Year” at the Juno Awards held in 2012. Unfortunately, however, Dragonette and Martin Solveig’s song Hello has been announced the best “Dance Recording of the Year”.
One year later, another well-known song by Anjulie, “You and I” also became part of the list of nominated songs for the best dance recording of the year. This time, the Canadian won the prize and became a proud Juno award-winning artist. The years that followed were even more successful for Anjulie. The reason being is that she collaborated with a number of popular artists.
Collaborations with Other Artists
One of Anjulie’s most prominent instances of collaborations with other musical artists is her participation in the creation of the text for The Boys – a song by Nicki Minaj and Cassie. The single was released in 2012, and it premiered on the iHeartRadio station on September 13th. Five days later, a YouTube video was released, as well.
Anjulie also wrote a few songs for the Canadian artist Kreesha Turner. The first one was Don’t Call Me Baby. Later, Anjulie wrote two more songs that were part of Turner’s debut album called Passion. In addition to this, the singer of You and I also wrote a song for the American drama musical Fame. The movie was immensely popular in the period between 2009 and 2010. Anjulie’s song Big Things plays in the opening scene of the drama film.
And that’s not everything. Stand Behind the Music is one of Anjulie’s most famous singles, and Cher Lloyd made a cover of it in 2012. It was even featured on Lloyd’s album Sticks and Stones. In her early years as a songwriter, Anjulie partnered with Jon Levine, who is a former member of the Canadian band named The Philosopher Kings.
Together, they wrote songs that were later featured in Emma Roberts’ debut album. Additionally, Anjulie and Jon created singles that were performed by the Philosophers’ Kings themselves and were added to their album Castles. Anjulie has also written songs for Kelly Clarkson and Icona Pop.
Personal Life
Anjulie is definitely one of those artists that have no problem revealing every little detail with respect to their personal life. Quite the opposite, actually; the Canadian singer prefers to keep her private life under wraps. It is known, however, that Anjulie has dated the American actor and television host William Maher, also known as Bill Maher.
Both of them were spotted having fun at the beach in 2015. The media was quite shocked when the news about Anjulie and Maher was released due to the fact that there is a huge age difference between them. It is not known when they broke up. As previously mentioned, Anjulie likes to keep her life to herself.
Interesting Facts Regarding Anjulie’s Life and Career
- Anjulie has three other siblings. Nevertheless, none of them is as interested in music as Anjulie herself, and they have never been in the public eye.
- When she was little, Anjulie loved listening to reggae and calypso music. Her parents played these genres in their home all the time.
- Anjulie’s parents are Indo-Guyanese, and the artist shared in a number of interviews that she found it incredibly hard to fit in when she went to school. She would isolate herself and would wait for the classes to be over to go back home. She has also mentioned that her heritage has served as an inspiration for creating music.
- Anjulie had to move to the American record label company Republic Records after the Universal Republic Records went defunct.
- Her song Boom appeared on numerous TV series, including Eastwick, The Vampire Diaries, and Melrose Place.
- It is speculated that Anjulie’s net worth is over $1.5 million.
- Anjulie’s song Rain was part of the Hot Dance Play chart, and it was at number 49. Only nine weeks later, it moved to the top three.
- At present, Anjulie is not dating anyone. When it comes to Anjulie’s personal life, the only information that is known to the public is that she dated the actor Bill Maher.
- The explicit version of Brand New Bi**c on Anjulie’s YouTube channel is her most viewed video, with over 2.6 million views.
- At the moment, Anjulie has almost 36K followers on Instagram. Some of the popular artists, producers, and groups she follows on the social media platform are Magnolia Park, John Mark Nelson, Dombresky, Punctual, and many others.
- Anjulie’s Twitter account has not been active since 2019. She has a considerable number of followers there, however, she follows nobody.
- Anjulie has more than 2 million listeners on Spotify per month.
- Anjulie is also immensely fascinated by art, and she even created her own animated movie named Earth Baby.
- After the release of her single No Wifey, a huge billboard with the image and name of the artist, was put up.
What to Expect in the Future
One of the singer’s latest creations is not associated with music. The project is named Earth Baby, and it is an animated film created by Anjulie herself. The artist drew her main character, and short videos featuring it can be seen on the official EarthBabyTheMovie TikTok account.
With this innovative project of hers, Anjulie wants to show that people have become obsessed with chasing material things, and tries to prove that we are all focusing on the wrong things now. We have left Earth behind, which is the worst thing one can do. The reason being is that we all live here and we should do everything possible to take care of our Earth.
Anjulie also likes to edit her own videos by adding lyrics and animations. Recently, she provided a link to her own lyrics video of the song Baddest Dream to her followers on Facebook. Her latest album Loveless Metropolis was added to Spotify a few months ago.
Even though Anjulie has not shared specific details on what her fans may expect in the near future, fans are certain that she has a lot of ideas circulating in her head. Considering that the number of Anjulie’s fans keeps growing, we are positive that it will not take her long to record her next singles that will hopefully be added to the singer’s third album.