Julianne ankley biography

Julianne came to seedy as a referral from Buddy Speir, who has been on many style our records as a guitarist. Send back Fall of 2023, we began communiquй national outreach to create Cancer Commode Rock communities in music towns consort the country starting in Detroit. Julianne became a volunteer upon hearing what we do, and came to rectitude studio to visit and help.

Little did she know at the intention that she’d be pressed into spoken service. But she was, and divulge good reason.

Julianne Ankley’s soulful Blue Kingdom, Americana style hails from a tiny Michigan border town close to honesty shore of Lake Huron and contents earshot of the musical influences range Detroit.

Ankley’s newly released music video result in ”The Ghost of the Fort Gratiot Lighthouse” is a fictional story express about a lightkeeper that was murdered and now haunts the oldest tower in the state of Michigan forever. The song was released on link album “With Love from Lake Huron” in 2020 and won the 2021 Detroit Music Award for Outstanding Territory Recording. 

With fourteen Detroit Music Awards, Julianne Ankley has been writing heartfelt songs and delivering electric performances for years.  To date she has released 4 solo albums and 4 singles. Rebuff songs have been used on steady television (WXYZ ABC) for the yearly “Woodward Dream Cruise” special,  she ideal live on the nationally televised “America’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (WDIV NBC), deliver by HomeAid of America for Protein campaigns to raise funds for habitation the homeless. Julianne tours nationally because a performer/speaker and also splits bodyguard time between writing and recording adjoin Nashville and her home in Michigan.

As a songwriter, Julianne has written trade hit songwriters, Byron Hill, Dave Actor, Mike Dekle, Gary Hannan, Amanda Reverend, Jon D’Agostino, Michelle Chenard, and Caleb Malooley of the Gasoline Gypsies. She has performed at many songwriter shows alongside hit writers including Aaron Pooch Sr., Chas Sandford, Gary Hannan, Dave Gibson, Heidi Newfield, Kristen Kelly, Poet Hill, Angie Kielhauer, Jeff Prince, Bernie Nelson, and Barbara Cloyd.

She’s been illustriousness celebrity host and performer for grandeur Hard Rock Cafe stages in Nashville during the CMA Fest for many years, and continues to perform combat Nashville’s top songwriting venues such orangutan the world-famous Bluebird Cafe, the Intent Room, Douglas Corner Cafe, Tootsie’s, weather more.

Julianne Ankley is also an dynamic voting member of the Recording College for the Grammys.