Eva K. Anderson

Eva K. Anderson is an Austrian singer/songwriter who broke through to Top Ten mainstream success in 2009 with her second album, Fortune Teller. Born Eva Kraus on July 1, 1977, in Leoben, Styria, Austria, she sang and learned to play several different instruments as a child. After graduating from high school, she studied at the the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and was awarded an MBA in 2002. While she was a student, she performed in various bands, most notably Gospel & More, and she befriended Harald Hanisch, a producer and guitarist with whom she founded the duo Eva Adam. One of the songs written together by Anderson and Hanisch, "Gone Digging," was adapted in 2003 by Austrian pop/rock superstar <a href="spotify:artist:5GnRHCbhnGp57tp4whNvOo">Christina Stürmer</a>, who was then an up-and-coming singer who had risen to fame as the second-place runner-up on the television casting show Starmania. <a href="spotify:artist:5GnRHCbhnGp57tp4whNvOo">Stürmer</a>'s version of the song, retitled "Ich Lebe" and released as her debut single, was a breakout smash hit that topped the Austrian singles chart for nine straight weeks. Moreover, the song was re-released by <a href="spotify:artist:5GnRHCbhnGp57tp4whNvOo">Stürmer</a> in 2005 to Top Five success in Germany. Meanwhile, Anderson embarked on a solo recording career as a singer/songwriter and made her full-length album debut in 2006 with God Is Singing. While her debut album went little-heard, she garnered lots of promotion with her participation in the radio casting show Ö3 Soundcheck in 2008 and subsequently broke through to mainstream commercial success the following year with the pop songs "Fortune Teller" and "A Sound of Silence," a pair of Top Ten hit singles from her second album, Fortune Teller (2009), which she co-wrote in collaboration with Hanisch. ~ Jason Birchmeier, Rovi