Antony and the Johnsons

About Antony and the Johnsons

Anohni is a musician working in genres ranging from electronic experimental to avant classical, dance and soul. Her music is characterized by her affecting voice. She found success in 2005 with the arrival of her second album, I Am a Bird Now, issued as Antony and the Johnsons, and was awarded the UK Mercury Music Prize. Subsequent releases included The Crying Light and Swanlights, and two live albums, Cut The World and TURNING. In 2016 she released a highly political experimental electronic-dance album HOPELESSNESS, which was again nominated for the Mercury prize. In 2016 ANOHNI was nominated for an Academy Award for the song "Manta Ray," which appeared in the film Racing Extinction. Born in the UK and raised in California, ANOHNI relocated to NYC in her late teens. She spent ten years working in underground late night forums as a singer and performance artist before assembling a group of musicians to record her first album, Antony and the Johnsons, in 1998. Influenced by singers Boy George, Alison Moyet, Marc Almond, and later, great American singers including Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Otis Redding and Donnie Hathaway, ANOHNI forged a singular path through popular music in the 2000s by addressing broad themes of environmental crisis and feminism. Her career has taken her over the course of 30 years from performing with prerecorded cassettes on small stages in Manhattan to presenting her music with symphonies in opera houses throughout the world.