Once she's made the music video for Lipstick, NZ On Air will push it to TV and plug it to radio.
"So I'm hoping for the best. And then I am going to do a mini tour and get my stuff out there."
Anna is the third New Zealander to have been nominated for the LA Music Awards and is entered in the pop artist of the year for artists not signed to major labels.
A focus for Anna is her 'team', working with those she clicks with, and a goal of signing on to a major label such as Universal Music.
"I'm working towards an EP. I got my last four songs done in America with a producer - he's Grammy-nominated for the Twilight soundtrack Oh Hush. He's been producing all my songs. As soon as we started working together we clicked and he knew what I wanted. I record my vocals in Auckland at Round Hedge Studios."
The young songstress has been working on training her voice for the past four years, after music studies at Wintec meant she lacked the time to write her own music.
"You're working so much at theory, when you go home you don't feel like song writing. That's what I found. So I left and I've been studying my voice for the past four years with Stuart Clarke in Auckland. He teaches the Seth Riggs speech and singing method, which is from the US. Seth has taught Michael Jackson, Madonna, Jennifer Lopez.
"[My voice has] changed so much! I started struggling. I'd never had a proper singing lesson until I went to Stuart, and you don't realise the way it works until you study it. There is so much to it. He'll say move your tongue slightly forward, and you'll get a totally different sound. My range has improved. I thought I was a really low singer, but it turns out I have this crazy range, and I never knew I had that."
For Anna, inspiration comes to her in her sleep.
"I get a lot of inspiration at night. I'll fall asleep for an hour, then I'll wake up with this image in my head so I have to get up and write it out, I'll work on it for hours, then I'll go to sleep, wake up again, rewrite it, practice it again. Some songs I've been working on for about three years.
"I get a lot of my songs from dreams. I dream like a movie scene in my head and it will turn into a song, it's really weird. I'm constantly in a bubble of creativity."
She said her video will stay away from a story line, rather she wants to focus on artistic imagery and body language.
"I've got a lot of ideas for my videos. I did a video about four years ago, I learnt a lot from that. I don't want to go down the story line sort of thing, for me it takes away from the song a little bit. I want to go down a different path."
Having applied for the NZ On Air funding three times prior, Anna said the win came as a shock.
"I've applied for before, but that was when my songs weren't that great. I just went in this one hoping, but I didn't think I got it because I thought I'd applied for the April round, but I didn't realise it was the cut off date and I applied for the May round, so I didn't find out until late May."
Along with the funding and nomination, Anna is competing with others in the TOP Isina charts and is currently number three vocalist for producer Baby Face, and three overall in the charts including song writers, composers, sound engineers, DJs, Bands, guitars and more. "He emailed me and said he loves my stuff. He's got a six week mentoring course which I really want to get into. He takes you under his wing with Universal Music, I'm hoping I get to go, they choose from instrumentalists and producers and singers etc. He's worked with Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston."
