GOLDIE ANDERS
Born in the Texas Hill Country, Goldie Anders blends haunting vocals and cinematic soundscapes with otherworldly dance movement. Before she could talk and when she could walk—she danced. Carrying dreams of attending a conservatory like Juilliard and joining a professional company, dance training became a fixture of her childhood.
Constant upheaval moving from place to place shaped her differently. In the in-between places, Anders turned to storytelling: writing poems, short stories, and diary entries as if confiding in a lifelong friend. She played motifs on her family’s upright Baldwin without realizing she was composing, arranged flowers from the garden for her mom's kitchen vase, and scribbled on an airplane napkin when she was eleven: “There’s always a blue sky somewhere, even above the clouds.” Creativity spilled out in many forms—restless, searching, un-contained.
In high school, she enrolled in a new arts magnet program immersed in visual art, theater, dance, and choir. When teachers urged her to narrow her focus, she couldn’t. Though she auditioned for a handful of the top arts programs, she didn’t get into a single program and landed at her backup school back to her home base in Texas. College was no different—she sampled everything from honors chemistry to playwriting to fashion courses while sketching charcoal outlines of the UT tower and hundred-year-old oaks—but dance remained her constant, and songwriting began to take root on a $200 Ibanez guitar she bought at the local Guitar Center in her first semester. When she should have been in her non-dance classes, she was writing songs in her dorm room. By her fourth year, she showcased her songs with a full band and self-choreographed-concert-style-dance at her university’s new works festival, fusing her two languages for the first time.
After graduating, Anders traded her dream of a prestigious dance company for the less predictable path of becoming a musician. Practical survival and discipline led her into marketing roles by day while she taught dance, performed with local dance companies, and fronted bands with ever-rotating bandmates. Though the players came and went, her songs evolved—and so did she.
What she once thought was a lack of focus revealed itself as incubation. The marketing knowledge, the creative direction experience, the countless drafts of songs and visions—all of it was preparation. Over a decade, Anders transformed from a self-described “jill of all trades, master of none” into an independent artist with a clear voice and vision.
Today, Goldie Anders creates work that feels both deeply personal and universally cinematic: music steeped in jazz, soul, and Texas roots, paired with choreography and imagery that feel like spellwork. Her art is about staying gold through thick and thin—weaving haunting memory, resilience, and beauty into a legacy all her own.
THROUGH THICK & THIN, STAY GOLD