Robyn Adele Anderson


Robyn Adele Anderson is an American vocalist based in New York City. She is a cast member and featured artist for Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox with over 250 million YouTube views on her music videos. She is credited with the band's breakthrough covers of "Thrift Shop" and "We Can't Stop" in 2013. Anderson also performed lead vocals for performances on Good Morning America in 2013, and TEDx in 2014.

Early life and education

Robyn Adele Anderson was born in Albany, New York. She grew up in Glenmont, New York with her mother, father, and half-sister. She is of German, Dutch, English, Scottish, and Native American descent. She attended Bethlehem Central High School where she played clarinet in the Wind Ensemble and sang in several choral groups.
She graduated from Binghamton University in 2011 with a Bachelors of Arts degree in Political Science and Arabic and concentrations in Middle Eastern Studies and International Affairs. She studied at the University of Seville in Spain for a semester in 2009 and became a study-abroad peer adviser. Her academic accomplishments won her the Israel J. Rosefksy Language and Culture Scholarship and the Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence in 2011. She was also selected as the intern for Binghamton's Planet Library project, an internationalization effort.

Career

From 2012 to 2015, Anderson worked for the ANSOB Center for Refugees, a non-profit organization in Astoria, NY that assists refugees in obtaining legal and social services.
In February 2013, Anderson began collaborating with American pianist and musical arranger Scott Bradlee. In 2013, Anderson's vocal contributions to the Postmodern Jukebox cover of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' "Thrift Shop" helped the video receive one million views on YouTube in its first week and four million in its first year.
After serving as Postmodern Jukebox' primary vocalist, Anderson started her own YouTube channel. As of December, 2019 her channel has over 539,000 subscribers and 55.1 million views. In January 2014, she became a staff writer for the online K-pop magazine KpopStarz. In 2015, she was cast as Lilyan Tashman in Cynthia von Buhler's Speakeasy Dollhouse: Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic at the Liberty Theatre. In 2016, she played the part of Lucile in FlexCo.'s production of The Flying Doctor at the Central Booking Art Space in the Lower East Side. Occasionally she is a guest vocalist for the musical duo The Skivvies, composed of Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley.
In 2017, Anderson began a series of solo shows, first at Feinstein's/54 Below followed by several at Sleep No More's Manderley Bar, and a two week tour in 2018 alongside Von Smith.
Anderson voiced Polish singer Robin Koninsky in the video game Red Dead Redemption 2, in which the rest of Postmodern Jukebox also made appearances.

Postmodern Jukebox videography

As of December 12, 2016, music videos featuring Anderson account for over 200 million of Postmodern Jukebox' 1 billion+ total YouTube viewcount.
Anderson became a founding member of Postmodern Jukebox led by American pianist and arranger Scott Bradlee. In 2011, she sang a cover version of "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. The video received one million views on YouTube in its first week and four million in its first year.

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