Anohni

Anohni (stylized as ANOHNI), formerly known as Antony Hegarty[5] or Antony (born October 1971), is an English singer, composer, and visual artist who has resided since her teens in the United States. She is best known as the lead singer of the band Antony and the Johnsons.

Anohni was born in Chichester, England.[1] Her family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States in 1981. In 1990, she moved to Manhattan, New York to study at New York University, where she founded the performance art collective Blacklips with Johanna Constantine.

Entering a musical career, she began performing with an ensemble of NYC musicians as Antony and the Johnsons. Their first album, Antony and the Johnsons, was released in 2000 on David Tibet's label Durtro. Their second album, I Am a Bird Now (2005), was a commercial and critical success, earning her the Mercury Music Prize.

In 2016, Anohni became the second openly transgender person nominated for an Academy Award; she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, along with J. Ralph, for the song “Manta Ray” in the film Racing Extinction.[6] Her debut solo album, Hopelessness, was released in May 2016.

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