anaiis
2026 Step Up Awardee
“anaiis’ sound is characterised by momentum and flux: you can find her roots deep in the soil of Dakar, Oakland, London, and beyond.”
London-based, French-Senegalese polymath anaiis (whose name appears in lowercase as a tribute to educator, author and activist bell hooks) makes the kind of music that speaks to an innate sense of wonder.
Her culturally diverse upbringing has shaped her into an inter-dimensional storyteller able to execute auditory and visual craft with incredible precision. Through her ethereal, soul-inflected, and genre bending soul, she explores identity, vulnerability, and healing. anaiis draws from the collective consciousness and creates not to a place, but to the self.
