Antony Hegarty
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"Antony Hegarty" (born 1971), often referred to simply as "Antony", is an English singer, composer, and visual artist, best known as the lead singer of the band Antony and the Johnsons.

Antony was born in the city of Chichester/Chichester, England, in 1971. In 1981 Antony's family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States. In 1990 she moved to Manhattan, New York to study at New York University, where she founded a 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 (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 Antony the Mercury Music Prize.

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Everyone's certainly entitled to that opinion, but I actually am British.

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I stared at his picture for so many hours when I was pre-teen. When we were doing the recording for the album I'd look across and there were those eyes, coming out at me like lasers from a picture of 20 years ago. It was wild.

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