Anzu Lawson is one of country music’s bold new voices—and among the first Eurasian singer-songwriters emerging with something to say.
Born in Oregon and raised between Los Angeles and Tokyo, Lawson has spent her life straddling worlds, and her music lives in that in-between space. She recorded her first Japanese album in Nashville with 3x Grammy-winning producer Ross Hogarth. The album went on to produce a #1 single on Avex Records and the Japanese Billboard charts, launching an international career.
Though Lawson first became known as an actress—with recurring and guest-starring roles on The Blacklist, Chicago Med, NCIS, and Law & Order—music has always been the thread running underneath it all.
Her sound has traveled everywhere from pop to hard rock to metal, but during the pandemic Lawson found her true musical home. Writing over Zoom with Nashville-based co-writer and producer Caleb Hardin, the two slowly built a sound that finally felt unmistakably her own: cinematic, raw, country-rooted, and deeply personal.
Lawson’s voice may already be familiar. She has performed on film scores for Hans Zimmer and Harry Gregson-Williams, including The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe—that haunting voice heard as Lucy opens the closet door into Narnia is Anzu Lawson. She has also sung on the soundtracks for Spy Game, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, and The Da Vinci Code.
Now stepping fully into the spotlight as a country singer-songwriter in America, Lawson writes about chasing impossible dreams in cities that can make you feel invisible. Her songs explore identity, heartbreak, ambition, loneliness, and the search for home—always returning to the music that keeps her grounded. Honest, cinematic, and fearless, Anzu Lawson is carving out a place in country music all her own.
