Anthony Rankin

This is a bio of the singer song writer Anthony Rankin

I’ve been experimenting with music in some shape or form since sitting nervously behind a piano at four years old, but found it to be my true calling once I gripped my first electric guitar at age eight and never looked back (exposure to a couple of Prince records did nothing to deter my enthusiasm – we both have a Napoleon complex).
Between then and now, I’ve written a lot of songs (some good, some not-so-good, two that got played on a local radio station); performed those songs hundreds of times in my hometown, and occasionally in a cool city like Philadelphia or Los Angeles; self-released a handful of records; sold a few thousand copies of those records; made a hip music video with my band for a song from one of those records; and got a bit of press in the local papers (and even a blog or two) along the way.
Since I was sixteen, I’ve straddled the fences between rock and R&B, pop and funk, metal and jazz... when it comes to being an artist, I still can’t sit still in one place for too long, but most music critics would probably label my sound as generally being "pop/rock with a funk undercurrent" or something like that. Like Maroon 5, but if Richie Sambora was the guitar player (no offense, James Valentine).
After high school, I was lucky enough to study my passion at the university level and received a Bachelor’s Degree of Music from Duquesne University in 2006. I still owe them a lot of money.
Throughout my young life, many people have told me that I was destined for fame, while at the same time others criticized me for having no artistic merit, or accused me of having "curiously precise facial hair" (true story).  At the end of the day, those things aren’t really for me to decide.  I just make music.




I have chosen this artist because his songs have easy lyrics to lip sync and to me the lyrics allow me to create a story with the the song telling it. The artist has given me complete permission to use 1 of the following 2 songs as I'm not 100 percent on what one i want to use yet. I do not think i will appear in my music video as i have two people to appear in it from outside of the sixth form 


The song will be uploaded at a later date.