Anita Lixel, an Australian now living in Brussels, came to Belgium 6 years ago by accident on en transit between San Francisco and Sydney. Something in the air made her instantly love the vibe in Brussels. Having been in a pop-trash girl band in Australia, she decided to start afresh as a solo electro-pop singer.

Photo:Lionel Samain

For her music project, Anita collaborates with a Belgian music producer, Kevin Morane, and a French lyricist, Bruno Metra, to create their special international sounding formula of "le pop extraordinaire". Produced with a meticulous sound, her first album is a statement about everything important to her: a sexy mix of joysticks, girl power, and nunchakus, all sung in ‘Fren-glish’. After all, doesn't every girl need to say "Je ne suis pas une icon cybersex..." once in a while?

Anita's performing nature is not only limited to music. Alongside recording her album, she had her own segment on Plug TV presenting everything from the latest in gothic toys to the hottest Japanese trends, and interviewing many international stars. More recently, each week Anita reports on the hype happenings around the city for TVBrussel

Anita is also a fan of all things online, and is enjoying presenting VW Escape TV, the first 100% Belgian vodcast. It talks about culture, movies, video games, music. 

By nature Anita is always ahead of the buzz and fashions, launching herself into the latest trends, although she says she never follows any of the ‘real’ trends. Her fresh style and cheeky charisma have gotten her noticed by the media and many magazines including (Elle, Lou, Flair, Pulp, CODE Magazine, Le Soir,…).

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Recently Anita won the Puredemo competition organised by PureFM. This led her to find a producer, finish her album and get distribution via Hysterias. Her track 'In your game ...boy' received outstanding reviews from the jury, including:

Raphaël Charlier

«Fraîche et pétillante Anita Lixel est, pour moi, une des réponses à la chanson française actuelle, ça manquait. Le morceau reste en tête sans nous la prendre.»

Rudy Leonet

«En annonçant que Pure Demo était ouvert à tous les genres musicaux, je n'avais pas forcément pensé à ce genre là ... et c'est la bonne surprise de la semaine. Il y a du Madonna/Mirwais, du Kylie, du Virna Lindt derrière In your game. Redoutablement efficace et impeccablement produit façon 80’s comme seul Yves Feyaerts savait le faire chez nous dans ces années là!»

 
Selected to play at the Boutik Rock, Anita Lixel impressed the public and organisers with her live show at the Witloof Bar. Anita is a seasoned performer who has a true contact with the public and an original and fresh look: “Black Light Pop Diva » is one way her fans like to describe her. Since then, she has performed in clubs, festivals and at prestigious stages such as Dour and the Vooruit. About her show at Dour, the festival magazine -‘No Bullshit ! (Telemoustique)’- said:
«Finally, our Belgian « coup de Coeur (heartfelt favourite)» of the day is Anita Lixel. This Australian established in Belgium is the winner of Pure Demo. Colourful and fresh, her style is somewhere between Madonna, queen of the clubs, and Kylie Minogue, the pop princess.»

In January 2007, Anita filmed her extravagant and colourful video clip for her first single ‘In Your Game… Boy’, directed by Thomas François. The result is a video that will make it hard to ignore Anita this year.
Her album is coming out in April 2007.

Anita blog & myspace

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