Flo Ankah | |
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Performing at the Harmonie Club, Nov 2014
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Born |
Florence Annequin Bourgoin-Jallieu, France |
Other names | Floanne |
Citizenship | France and United States |
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Website | www |
Flo Ankah is an actress, filmmaker, and singer residing in New York City. She founded Simple Production in 2006.
Flo Ankah has appeared in film (Listen Up Philip, Then She Found Me) and television (One Life to Live). She stars in the Broadway-style musical Loving the Silent Tears, directed by Vincent Paterson, at the Shrine Auditorium Her solo show Edith Piaf Alive premiered at Joe's Pub in the Public Theater.
She works as a voice artist for feature films (Magic in the Moonlight, My Old Lady, The Limits of Control) and numerous television commercials.
Known as the French songstress Floanne, she performs with Jazz musicians in the nightclub scene, including Joe's Pub, Feinstein's/54 Below, Symphony Space, the Miami-Dade County Auditorium. She has appeared solo at the Museum of Modern Art, Bryant Park and the New York Botanical Garden. Her interpretation of "Michelle" from The Beatles is the 75th release of The Beatles Complete on Ukulele.
Flo Ankah directs commercial voice-over recordings and collaborative art house films. Her choreography has been shown at Movement Research at the Judson Church, HERE Arts Center, Dixon Place, and has performed for artists such as Mina Nishimura, and Meredith Monk (at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum).