Biography

Copenhagen based singer and musician Hannah Schneider creates melancholic and playful alternative pop, skillfully crafted with a fascination with electronic sounds and ambient landscapes. Hannah is inspired by her environment - the sounds surrounding her - and incorporates a diversity of instrumentation and timbre to her music, adding a unique dimension to the expertly constructed tunes. Her music is imbued with themes of melancholia and loneliness that are conveyed with an engaging charisma in her voice, instrumentation and arrangements. All of this is apparent in her live performances, with an added visual dimension, as she samples, loops, sings and plays all kinds of intriguing instrumentation. Hannah signed to Mermaid Records/ Sony Music in 2009 and subsequently released two full-length albums - a self-titled debut in 2009 and 2012's "Me vs I". In 2014, her third album Red Lines was released on Mermaid / Sony and UK label Lojinx. She is currently working on new material, set to be released in fall of 2021 Since 2016, Hannah has been one half of the electronic duo AyOwA. With a certain universal and dreaming approach, this band combines noise pop with vapor wave, and melodies with improvisation, in an evocative and playful mix. AyOwA has received airplay on BBC 1 , BBC6, Radio X and Apple Music Beats 1, as well as Danish national radio. Hannah has been featured as a vocalist in numerous collaborations. She is also one part of the performance duo Philip | Schneider.