Anna Buturlina, jazz singer and musical actress, was born in 1977 in Moscow. She studied at Prokofiev Music School, Gnessin Moscow Special School of Music, and Gnessin Russian Academy of Music. Winner of international competitions of jazz singers Lady Summertime in Kajaani (Finland) and Jazz Voices in Klaipeda (Lithuania), Grand Prix winner of Jazz Singers Competition in Moscow. She made her debut at the age of 19 with the Anatoly Kroll’s jazz orchestra MKS Big Band, and subsequently collaborated with Oleg Lundstrem State Chamber Orchestra of Jazz Music and with such prominent Russian jazz performers as Alexey Kuznetsov, Georgy Garanyan, Daniil Kramer, Igor Butman, Lev Kushnir, Alex Rostotsky, Yakov Okun, Vladimir Danilin, Ivan Farmakovsky, and others.

Anna Buturlina has performed with the Russian State Symphony Cinema Orchestra under the baton of Sergei Skripka, and with big bands from various Russian cities. She has starred in the title role of Penelope, or 2+2, production of the Stas Namin Music and Drama Theatre with music by Gennady Gladkov. She has appeared with solo programs in famous jazz clubs in Moscow and at leading concert venues in Russia. In May 2015, she participated in a concert dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Victory in World War II at the UN General Assembly Hall in New York with the Oleg Lundstrem Jazz Orchestra conducted by Boris Frumkin. With the Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra and conductor Vladimir Jurowski, she performed excerpts from Alfred Schnittke's music for the television film Little Tragedies in 2019 and appears at a concert to mark Sofia Gubaidulina's 90th birthday in 2021. 

Anna Buturlina is a participant of many jazz festivals in Russian cities and abroad, such as Jazz at Hermitage Garden, Usadba. Jazz and many others. She was an organiser of the 1st Moscow Jazz Singers Competition (2009). She also records vocal parts for feature films and animation films. Her major works include records for Disney animation films, voicing Tiana (The Princess and the Frog) and Elsa (Cold Heart). The singer’s solo albums are Black Coffee (2002), My Favorite Songs (2006), All That Jazz (2017), Beware of the Music (2017) and The Key to the Kingdom (2017).