During the 2025-26 season, Tanisha L. Anderson makes her HGO debut as Lily in Porgy and Bess. Anderson is three-time Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano. In 2014, she became a member of the world-renowned group The Crossing, which won the 2018 and 2019 Grammy for Best Choral Performance. In 2025, she won a Grammy for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media for Maestro. Career highlights include performing in the world premiere of Rhiannon Giddons and Michael Abels’s Omar (2022); performing in the world premiere of Rene Orth’s 10 DAYS IN A MADHOUSE (2023); performing as part of the ensemble in the American premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s The Listeners with Opera Philadelphia (2024); and performing background vocals for Michael Bublè, Andrea Bocelli, and Josh Groban. Anderson has sung throughout the East Coast and in Europe with Opera Philadelphia, The Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds (Charleston and Spoleto, Italy); The National Marian Anderson Museum; Capital Opera Richmond; VoxAma Deus Ensemble; The Salvatones; the New York Philharmonic; and the Philadelphia Orchestra.