Anika Venkatesh

Anika Venkatesh is a genre-defying vocalist hailing from Coast Salish Territories, and currently based in Tkarón:to. Anika bridges art forms as a solo vocalist, choral professional, theatre performer, and opera singer. Select performances include Alice in Wonderland on tour (Bad Hats Theatre); alto soloist in The Atonement (The Orpheus Choir of Toronto); Sky in a Small Cage (Mahogany Opera, Barbican Centre, Copenhagen Opera Festival); Universal Child Care (Quote Unquote Collective, Canadian Stage). 

Anika is also an R&B musician, amongst other contemporary genres. They are a founding member of Couch Jams, a Vancouver-based community music collective dedicated to amplifying the voices of underrepresented BIPOC artists and musicians. Anika continues to discover their artistic niche with an instrument radically fluid and hybrid. Through musical storytelling, they hope to garner curiosity, reflection, play, connection, tenderness, intimacy, and strength.