anaiis

London-based French-Senegalese artist anaiis is coming to Vienna in early 2027! The announcement comes hot off the heels of her recent set at We Out Here which saw her take to the mainstage for a special one-off performance which included a full choir and surprise appearance from Nao. The 2027 tour will undoubtedly be an opportunity for anaiis to share new and unreleased music including her recent singles "Sunshine" and "P4P" which she released last month to much applause from fans and critics alike.

Born in Toulouse, France, anaiis moved around often, being raised between Dakar, Dublin, and Oakland. The work of Black thinkers and artists like Ella Fitzgerald, Octavia Butler, James Baldwin, bell hooks, Nina Simone, Alice Walker, and more, helped anaiis find her own voice. Her debut EP Nina dropped in 2018. Her first project showcased a strong conviction and depth in her artistry. After her debut project, two COLORS sessions for singles “chuu” and “vanishing” put her on the radar for even more music listeners around the world. Past performances include opening for Daniel Caesar on his UK tour, performing on Mereba’s U.S. tour, and sharing the stage with soul legend Erykah Badu. Beyond the music, anaiis has also been featured as a speaker for TEDxLondonWomen at the Southbank Centre. A polymath with an insatiable appetite for growth and knowledge, anaiis’ new music and upcoming tour mark a continuation of her creative journey, inviting listeners around the globe into the intimate and reflective world she has created.

anaiis 2025 album Devotion & the Black Divine has already yielded 20 million streams to date. The album swells with emotional clarity and a growing sense of homecoming- not to a place, but to the self. The album approaches the concept of selfhood with compassion and patience. Comfortable in her humanness, anaiis finds strength in motherhood, scholarship, and acceptance on Devotion & the Black Divine. Recorded in London with a live band, the dual release of Sunshine and P4P highlights the breadth of her artistry through deeply emotional storytelling and immersive production — an electrifying, warm divergence from the tender sonic palette of her previous releases but no less urgent. Built around lively instrumentation and layered vocals, "Sunshine" captures the radiant, disorienting feeling of an encounter that shakes up your world. "P4P" shifts the lens outward, a protest song that pairs emotionally driven instrumentation with lyricism that refuses numbness and calls for collective movement. Together they sit at the tension between joy and rage, pleasure and justice — two feelings anaiis refuses to keep separate. Following its release, Devotion & The Black Divine was included as an album of the year by New Yorker (who also highlighted “Green Juice” as a song of the year), Apple Music, BBC 6, and Wordplay Magazine, amidst high praise from The Guardian, The Observer, Rolling Stone UK, BBC, Numéro, Crack Magazine, CLASH, and more.