Ani Kyd (born September 15, 1969) is a Canadian,

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-based musician, actor, and

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Career

Kyd has worked with musicians including Meegan Bradfield (Limblifter), Lisa Wagner (Cello player for Moist),

Gene Hoglan Eugene Victor Hoglan II (born August 31, 1967) is an American drummer, acclaimed for his creativity in drum arrangements, including use of abstract devices for percussion effects and his trademark lengthy double-kick drum rhythms. Though his pla ...

(Strapping Young Lad) and

Byron Stroud Byron Stroud (born February 12, 1969) is a Canadian bassist. He is the former bassist for metal bands Fear Factory, Imonolith and Strapping Young Lad, current bassist for metal bands City of Fire and Zimmers Hole, and studio bassist for 3 Inc ...

(Fear Factory). She has played guitar for

THOR Thor (; from non, Þórr ) is a prominent god in Germanic paganism. In Norse mythology, he is a hammer-wielding æsir, god associated with lightning, thunder, storms, sacred trees and groves in Germanic paganism and mythology, sacred groves ...

as well as having

Jello Biafra Eric Reed Boucher (born June 17, 1958), known professionally as Jello Biafra, is an American singer, spoken word artist and politician. He is the former lead singer and songwriter for the San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys. Initially ac ...

produce and perform back up vocals for her debut album, ''Evil Needs Candy Too'', which was released on Alternative Tentacles in 2005. From 2005 to 2007 she sang in the two lead singer metal/rock band Approach The Throne, with Chris "Val" Valagao (Zimmers Hole) as the other singer. Throughout Kyd's professional career she has sung back up vocals for

Paul Hyde Paul Reginald Nelson (born 21 May 1955), known by the stage name Paul Hyde, is a British-born Canadian singer-songwriter. He co-founded the rock band Payola$ with Bob Rock, serving as the band's main lyricist and vocalist. He later performed and ...

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Strapping Young Lad Strapping Young Lad was a Canadian extreme metal band formed by Devin Townsend in Vancouver in 1994. The band started as a one-man studio project; Townsend played most of the instruments on the 1995 debut album, ''Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing' ...

(on the album ''

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'') and the

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. She has also been on various compilations including Trooper tribute and a

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album featuring Bruce Cockburn and Bill Henderson,

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is a Canadi ...

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) and

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. She was nominated for favourite local female in the ''Georgia Straight'' Music Awards 2000. She acted alongside Jello Biafra in the movie ''The Widower''. She has played shows with Our Lady Peace, Bif Naked, Paul Hyde, Strapping Young Lad, DOA, the

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and Jello Biafra, and performed approximately 500 live shows from 1986 to 2010 including November 29, 2003 at the Pacific Coliseum Vancouver B.C, with THOR and D.O.A. and on May 1, 2004 at BC Place, Vancouver for (Slam City Jam). Kyd has been a member of over 12 bands from 1986 to 2010. She has done four major Canadian and US tours, including a 40-city tour playing guitar for Thor. Ani Kyd was turned into a cartoon character in the

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comic - issue #2 of 2, 2002, "Infinitely Secret Crossover Crisis" page 2

Music videos

Discography

Albums

''Evil Needs Candy Too'' (Alternative Tentacles 2005) # Rejoyce # Creepy Feeling # Taste My Lips # My 1st Kill # Fingerpainting # Six Californian Dollars # 13 # Left Holding the Bag # Erase # Left Right Left # So Far # Lost # Stranger Things # Silver Cage # Hardway Home # The Involuntary Admittance of Jack Ryd. By Michael Kyd ''Ani Kyd Blues Experience'' (Independent 2009) # 2 Guns # Alone is for me # Reckless Soul # Run and Hyde # Dirty Blues # Miss V # Simply You # Waste of Time # Why do you love me # One step behind

Compilations

''Grrrls with Guitars Compilation Volume 1'' (1999) Grrrls with Guitars Records also featuring Kinnie Starr, Sandy Scofield * "The Sun In My Eyes" ''Shot Spots'' (2001) on Visionary Records. A Trooper tribute album also featuring DOA, Real McKenzies, SNFU * "Boy With A Beat" ''The Green Revolution'' (2004) also featuring Jello Biafra, Randy Bachman, Bruce Cockburn, Bif Naked, and Joe Keithley * "Wish You Dead"

Back-up vocals

*Sandy Scofield "Dirty River"(1994) Independent back-up vocals on "Big House" *Paul Hyde "Turtle Island" back-up vocals on "Love Is All", and "Happy Train" *Strapping Young Lad "Alien" and "Strapping Young Lad" *

Jello Biafra And The Guantanamo School Of Medicine Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine is a punk rock band led by Jello Biafra. They released their debut album, '' The Audacity of Hype'' in October 2009. Biography Inspired by Iggy Pop's 60th birthday gig at the Warfield in San ...

"The Audacity Of Hype" back-up vocals on "Pets Eat Their Masters", "Electronic Plantation"

References

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