Stevie Ann (born as Anna Stéphanie Struijk) is a singer-songwriter from the Netherlands (Limburg). She began making music at a young age. From the moment she picked up the guitar, she started writing her own lyrics. |Her influences include artists such as Sheryl Crow and Alanis Morissette. Stevie Ann’s debut album Away From Here was launched in the summer of 2005 and contains twelve self-written songs. Her two singles ‘The poetry man’ and ‘One year of love’ reached the higher ranks of the Dutch ‘Mega Top 50’ , which increased her popularity. In her short career Stevie Ann has already won two prestigious prizes in the Dutch music industry. In November 2005 she won an ‘Essent Award’, a prize awarded to young and promising artists. A few months later, February 2006, she received a Silver Harp. |