Anna Eriksson spent her youth in many different locations. She has lived in Tanzania, Saudi-Arabia and India. Her father is an engineer and has been working abroad for years. Where he went, the whole family followed.
Anna kept her emotions and eyes open, even though the spirit of motherland was always within. "Longing is something that has strongly affected me and my songs. I was often homesick, but when we came back to Finland, I found myself missing the sounds and sunsets of Africa, or the spicy air hanging above the streets of Varanasi. I was an outsider, but when I think about it now, I understand how much it molded my personality in a good sense. I learned a great deal about...