INANNA is an LA-based singer, bellydancer, environmentalist & animal advocate of Italian origins.
Inanna reinvents environmentalist music in an art-pop project dedicated to the Earth and all its landscapes and life-forms, through a mesmerizing collection of future-oriented pieces. Her passion for Nature, animals, alternative music & Middle Eastern sounds has given life to a unique and genre-bending eco-ethno-pop sound. The interactions between humans, technology, animals and Nature are being witnessed and given a voice, bringing a hopeful message for possible futures on Earth. Inanna’s music is a contemporary cathartic incantation of an enchantress, a cyber-priestess standing between Nature and Culture, light & dark, old & new, feminine & masculine, melting together in unique atmospheres.
Read our fill interview with her below.
For those who don’t know, how long have you been making music and how would you describe your style?
I started making music, writing lyrics and simple compositions when I was about 7 years old, I got my first keyboard and guitar when I was in primary school. I never stopped making music and playing in bands since then, first in my hometown (I had a 3 girls-punk band when I was 17), then in Barcelona where I lived for more than 10 years (and where I started my solo career), and now in Los Angeles, where I found my home. Less than 2 years ago, I decided I needed to change and find my true voice in music. I had always worked with other band members or producers and I had never done full productions on my own. I decided I wanted my music to be mine and really represent what I had to say, and what I stood for. So Inanna was born, at the beginning of 2019. The aim of the project was not only to speak up about environmental and animalist issues through music, but also to put together all the elements that made me become myself in all these years: my dedication to nature and animals, my love for belly dance and Middle Eastern music, my passion for very theatrical performances and mythological imaging. This way, I created a new character, Inanna, speaking through a new genre that finally defined me. I like to call it eco-ethno-electropop.
We really enjoyed one of your newest tracks ‘Invisible City.’ Could you share some of the background on how it came about?
“Invisible Cities” is one of my favorite books, by Italian author Italo Calvino. In this wonderful series of short tales he describes fantastic and peculiar imaginary cities. I got the inspiration from this novel to imagine my own city, a green city of the future, where the city is so green that it melts together with the surrounding nature, and where all animals are free and not exploited by humans. So Invisible City is my own vision, my own projection of a city I haven’t yet discovered. It’s invisible because it hides well in nature and because it’s not a reality. Yet.
Where do you draw inspiration from as an artist when creating music?
When I started this environmentalist and animalist music project, inspiration came automatically and so abundantly! There is SO much to say about how we have treated this planet, SO much to talk about how we are dealing with climate change, with animal exploitation, with deforestation, with ocean pollution…there is so much I want to say that I feel the inspiration will never end. I feel there is an enormous need to create a real alliance among all humans – in spite for their ethnicities, religions, economies, traditions, etc. – to come together and save what’s left of the natural world. If we do it together, and if we do it now, we can still make a difference and avoid climate catastrophe. It’s time to come together and take care of our home: everyone’s home.
What can you tell us about your upcoming project ACROTOPIA? What do you hope listeners to away from it?
ACROTOPIA will be the name of the album/collection we will release as soon as we are able to do a live/in person event again. “Acrotopia” means “the higher place”, not an unattainable imaginary utopia, but not a dark and scary dystopia either: it’s the better place, the higher way of living that we can all achieve if we learn how to thrive together with our planet and other species.I am still releasing single after single now during the pandemic because I believe that a live album release event will be the most appropriate to show what Inanna has to say and how, I feel online events are not able to transmit the whole concept, aura and energy of this project. So as soon as we can gather again, Acrotopia will be released as a collection of released singles (remastered) plus some new ones. And, of course, each song will be about a different environmental or animalist topic
What can our readers do to support you and/or some causes you care about?
Share share share! Share the videos, share posts, spread the word about environmental and animalist issues. Watch documentaries, share them with family and friends, consume less plastic, reuse things, eat plant-based, drive electric or hybrid if you can, talk about how we are going to save the Earth in the next 7 years! Or do we want to be the generation that knew it was going to be bad and didn’t do anything about it? For the future generations, for biodiversity, for animals and the whole natural world, the time has come to do the better thing, make the better choice.
Thank you so much for having me!
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