The climb: Anya Kvitka at TEDxBayArea

Anya Kvitka’s bandwagon is very quickly filling up. The San Francisco bay area-based songstress continues to seduce fans and impress critics with her sultry voice, dynamic videos and impeccable style. Refined but full of fire, Anya’s vocal dexterity and innate musicality vault her into a rarefied group of singers. The Moscow, Russian-born chanteuse can just as easily draw on R&B or Hip-Hop as she can Soul or Jazz and back it all up with 20 years of classically trained piano experience. In 2011, soon after graduating college, Anya got a huge push with the help of L.A. based company/blog Knocksteady, they recorded a live video of her track “Runnin.“ On the day of its release, the video ranked on YouTube’s Top 100 list of favorited and viewed. Her follow up video for “Gone Baby Gone,“ produced by Hippie Sabotage and directed by Brandon Van Auken, was featured on blogs all over the world and has currently surpassed 20,000 views. Most recently, she successfully