Ananta Roosens

It was told that Ananta, when still crawling, was deeply fascinated by the tuning whistle of daddy's guitar, who was a rock guitarist. She didn't get to hear lullabies before going to bed, but instead daddy's own rock songs played on his self-assembled guitar thinking the girls would be asleep ...
Ananta wrote her own little songs, which by the way aren't worth mentioning, but she soon discovered that without any instrument, no tune was ever going to survive. By chance, the violin crossed her path and she started playing, marking the notes of a song with chalk on her violin, to remember the order of them. Later, she (luckily) went to the music school!
Years after, she started her studies at the Rotterdam Conservatory. There she got engaged in different musical styles such as Flamenco, Brazilian Choro, Jazz, Indian music, Cuban Son and Charanga, and decided to specialize in Argentinean Tango as well as in classical music and followed master classes with Gustavo Beytelmann, Victor Hugo Villena, Gustavo Mozzi, Dino Saluzzi, Pablo Agri and Ramiro Gallo.
In the meantime she played in different bands such as Lunfardo, Pavadita, Otra, Guardia Cadenera, trio Tomassini, duofActs, Mógil and Petra. She cooperated with artists such as Ibrahim Ferrer, Thé Lau, John Ruocco, Juan José Mosalini, Luis Stazo, Pablo Agri, Alfredo Marcucci, Giovanni Di Domenico, Silvia Abalos, ... and played in many different projects all over Europe, Iceland, Argentina, Mexico, Turkey and Japan. In 2010 and 2011 she played the violin and the trumpet during the 'tango 3.0' world tour of Gotan Project.

But those little songs were still in her head, un-performed, and therefore it became urgent and of vital importance to bring together all the musical and non-musical ideas that had been sleeping and multiplying in the eternal sunshine and unconscious corners of her spotless mind ...
She wrote the music for the short film 'a fair tale', for the air acrobatic act 'cirque en flex', for projects of choreographer Satya and for the Icelandic band 'Mógil'.
For la sieste du dromadaire she put her best tango shoes on but also here she can't stick to tango alone and uses her favorite ingredients from the global kitchen of sounds ...