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Anohni and the Johnsons (previously known as Antony and the Johnsons) is a music ensemble originally based in New York City that presents the work of English singer-songwriter Anohni and her collaborators. The band released their self-titled debut album in 2000.
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Antony and the Johnsons foi uma banda norte-americana liderada por Anohni. [5] Em 2005 a banda alcançou grande sucesso com I Am a Bird Now, álbum que contou com os contributos de músicos como Lou Reed, Boy George, Rufus Wainwright e Devendra Banhart. A banda conquistou com este álbum o Mercury Prize. [6]
Anohni and the Johnsons is a music ensemble originally based in New York City that presents the work of English singer-songwriter Anohni and her collaborators. The band...
- Early Life
- Musical Career
- Musical Collaborations
- Visual Art and Performance
- Gender Identity
- Discography
- External Links
Anohni was born in 1971 in Chichester, England to Irish parents She identified as transgender from an early age. In 1977, her family moved to Amsterdam for a year, and then, in 1981, they moved to the San Francisco Bay Area of California, settling in San Jose, where Anohni attended Lincoln High School and studied music and was an avid record collec...
Antony and the Johnsons
After being awarded a grant from New York Foundation for the Arts for the 1996 production of "The Birth of Anne Frank/The Ascension of Marsha P. Johnson" at Performance Space 122, Anohni solicited accompanying musicians to record a number of songs she wrote in the early 1990s. The ensemble performed for the first time as "Antony and the Johnsons" at The Kitchen as part of William Basinski's installation "Life on Mars" in 1997. In 1999, the group began to perform more frequently at venues such...
Anohni
On 23 February 2015, Anohni announced her fifth album Hopelessness via the Antony and the Johnsons' website and Facebook account. Co-produced by Anohni, Oneohtrix Point Never and Hudson Mohawke, it was her first album to be released under her name Anohni, one that she had been using in her personal life "for years". In the announcement, Anohni described the album as "an electronic record with some sharp teeth" and the UK's Independent described it as a "bitterly beautiful record".The Quietus...
Anohni and the Johnsons
On May 16, 2023, Anohni announced the reappearance of her band, renaming it Anohni and the Johnsons. The band released a new single titled "It Must Change", produced by Jimmy Hogarth, with a music video starring British trans activist Munroe Bergdorf. The New York Times stated that "[a] cloud of elegy hangs over the song [...] as over the warming planet, while Anohni — fiercely, tenderly — seems to sing in the voice of Mother Earth herself". The band also unveiled an upcoming album entitled M...
Anohni occasionally collaborates with other musicians. In 2003, she began working with Lou Reed as a supporting vocalist on the Animal Serenade tour and performed on a number of tracks on Reed's album The Raven. She sang back up (with Sharon Jones and a children's choir) in Lou Reed's first full performance of his album Berlin at St Ann's Warehouse...
In July 2008, Anohni debuted a number of self-produced visual artworks in a Brussels exhibition curated by Jerome Sans. Working with longtime collaborator/photographer Don Felix Cervantes and adviser Joie Iacono, she went on to have solo exhibitions at Isis Gallery in London and Accademia Albertinain Turin, Italy. In April 2009, she curated an exhi...
Anohni is transgender and uses the pronouns she/her. In 2005, 11 years before she publicly changed her pronouns, Anohni stated to Magnet Magazine "I prefer [the transgender] label to ‘gay' (...) Listen, I believe that we all contain a family within us: a mother, a father, a son, a daughter. As far as how it affects my music, I think it’s the same a...
Solo albums
1. Hopelessness(2016) 2. Paradise EP(2017)
With Anohni and the Johnsons
1. Antony and the Johnsons(2000) 2. I Am a Bird Now(2005) 3. The Crying Light(2009) 4. Swanlights(2010) 5. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross(2023)
Antony and the Johnsons discography at DiscogsAnohni discography at DiscogsOriginally released in 2000 on David Tibet’s artist-run label Durtro, Antony and the Johnsons features songs ANOHNI first performed in clubs in NYC in the early 90s, recorded for the first time with a full band and string ensemble.
15 de abr. de 2019 · Knockin' On Heaven's Door by Antony and the Johnsons, released 15 April 2019.
