For many years, Anna Ermakova was first and foremost “the daughter of”. She looked like the spitting image of her father Boris Becker, and many probably first saw the tennis idol. That has increasingly changed. The now 24-year-old works as a model and danced her way into the hearts of viewers on the RTL show “Let’s Dance”. Now she wants to pursue a career as a singer. Her first album, entitled “Behind Blue Eyes”, will be released on Friday (August 9).
“The song meant a lot to me”
The title song is a cover of the song with which she enchanted the audience the most on “Let’s Dance”. But “Behind Blue Eyes” also stands for what has been going on behind her own blue eyes in recent years.
“I really wanted to cover ‘Behind Blue Eyes’. The song meant a lot to me – both when I heard it when I was younger and because of the magical moment on ‘Let’s Dance’,” Ermakova said in an interview with the German Press Agency. “That was a moment when I felt accepted for who I am – by myself and also by the German people,” she continued. She will never forget that moment.
Well-known film songs reinterpreted
The whole album consists of well-known film songs that Ermakova has reinterpreted with her warm, gentle, emotional, yet powerful, instantly recognizable voice. She sounds much more mature and expressive than one might have expected from the newcomer.
“Growing up, music and films were incredibly important to me. They were my safe space,” Ermakova enthuses. She wanted to reconnect with that younger part and discover herself in order to find her musical sound – and her genre, she says. “It’s a big learning-healing-and-gratitude journey for me and I’m excited to share it.”
Duet with Florian Silbereisen
There are 15 songs on the album, including a duet with pop singer Florian Silbereisen. With him, she follows in the footsteps of Frank and Nancy Sinatra, Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman and sings “Somethin’ Stupid”. There are also other classics such as “Son of a Preacher Man” and “Venus”. “It’s a variation of the most diverse things and sounds from different time periods and genres. Male artists, female ones – it doesn’t matter. We have everything,” the 24-year-old describes her album, which means a lot to her.