Anita Lester
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Anita Devorah Lester (born May 5th, 1986) is a Melbourne based Israeli/Australian musician, writer and visual artist.
Known primarily as a singer/songwriter, she had performed under the moniker Lester The Fierce, and prior to that, fronted band Me and the Grownups landing on a musical project under her name in 2020.
In 2017 Anita won over two dozen laurels for her debut short animated film Noch Am Leben (Still Alive) about the phycological repercussions of the Holocaust passed down through generational trauma/ epigenetics. It has been praised globally and appears in multiple Oscar contending film Festivals.
In 2022 an official portrait of Flea from the Red Hot Chilli Peppers was exhibited in Australia.
In 2021 Anita's cover of Leonard Cohen's 'You Want it Darker' appeared on Season 10 Episode 17 of The Walking Dead.
Early Life[edit]
Born on May 5th 1986 in Netanya, Israel. Anita's family relocated to Australia during the first Intifada where her Film maker brother Yoav Lester and sister Maya Lester were born in NSW, Australia.
She is of Jewish Eastern European and North African heritage and has Holocaust survivor grandparents.
She attended Montessori and Steiner education streams throughout her schooling.
She graduated from RMIT school of fine art in 2010.
Music[edit]
Anita’s first played with the band ‘Me and the Grownups’ who released two albums and two published singles. Battling the Mountains, the Sky and the Sea and Knowing Lovers, Naive Lovers both were award winning in Australia and were respectively shortlisted for the 2008/9 ARIA awards. Me and the Grownups, comprising of Adrian Sergovich and Jonathan Dreyfus (son of composer George Dreyfus), disbanded at the end of 2009 with a performance at the Astor Theatre in Melbourne.
In 2010, Anita Lester launched her new project ‘Lester the Fierce’. Her debut EP ,’The Summer Deluge’ and subsequently signed with Sound City Studios label Fairfax Records in LA in 2012.
In 2013 released her critically acclaimed self titled EP Lester The Fierce.
During that time, the third Lester The Fierce EP ‘The Witching Hour’ was completed, but due to label conflicts and Lester The Fierce was forced into early retirement.
In late 2016 she released a cover of Leonard Cohen's You want it Darker from his final album, which went viral online and was publicly acknowledged by Cohen just prior to his death in 2016. It later appeared on Season 10 of AMC's The Walking Dead.
In 2017 Anita released 2 singles MAN and LAST DAY as collaborative projects with her film maker brother Yoav Lester.
In 2020 she released her first EP under her name titled 'Erato'. Her song 'Wrong Time' was covered by Hootie and the Blowfish.
In 2021 Anita released a single 'Sun and Moon and Stars' produced by Australian band 'Husky'.
Literature[edit]
Anita is a contributing editor to many online publications and she has written art and music editorials and essays.
She released her first book of poetry 'Erato' in 2020.
Anita is also a children's book illustrator with titles including but not limited to: 'Albert and the Amazing Pillow Monsters', 'Sally and The Magical Sneeze', 'Colours' and 'The Seven Palaces of Breath - The Mysteries of the Flying Hobbler'.
Visual Art[edit]
Anita is a children's book illustrator and animator. She has collaborated with artists such as Charlie Lim, Washington and Simon Taylor.
In 2017 Her first short film Noch Am Leben (Still Alive) was debuted at the Jewish International Film Festival. The film is an essay about her Holocaust Survivor great aunt, Eva Nagler,. The film has been shown in over 30 film festivals globally and was premiered online by Vimeo Staff Picks.
She is a member of a Yiddish cultural revivalist project 'Di Farborgene Khalyastre' (The Hidden Gang) and has published a book 'The Seven Palaces of Breath - The Mysteries of the Flying Hobbler' and exhibition under the same name in 2022. Alongside this, she illustrated seven exhibited drawings depicting the Holocaust poetry of Aaron Zeitlin.
In 2022 a book presented by Israeli academic publisher 'Nine Lives'.
Personal Life[edit]
Anita Lester’s mother is Australian artist, Dena Lester, who is known for her multimedia dark large-scale landscapes. Her Father is Film Maker Jonathan Lester, who died in 1996 from a heart disease, at the age of 44.
References[edit]
https://www.abc.net.au/doublej/programs/tower-of-song/ladies-sing-leonard-cohen/12761420
https://oneofone.com.au/interviews/anita-lester/
https://thebigsmoke.com.au/author/anita-lester/
https://imposemagazine.com/tv/anita-lester-man
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt12772726/soundtrack/?ref_=tt_trv_snd
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