1. Anohni Hegarty, styled as ANOHNI, is an American singer, songwriter, and visual artist.
44 Facts About Anohni
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Anohni has presented solo work and as the lead singer of the band Anohni and the Johnsons, formerly known as Antony and the Johnsons.
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Anohni started her musical career performing with an ensemble of New York musicians as Antony and the Johnsons.
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In 2016, Anohni became the first openly transgender performer 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.
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In 2023, as Anohni and the Johnsons, the artist released her sixth album, My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross.
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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 collector.
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Anohni's mother Barbara was a photographer and her father Brendan was a prominent Silicon Valley businessman who worked as an IBM engineer and as COO of Seagate Technology.
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In 1990, Anohni moved to Manhattan to attend Experimental Theater Wing at New York University.
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In 2007, Anohni created an original soundtrack for a video by Nick Knight featuring the designs of Hussein Chalayan.
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Anohni collaborated in 2008 with Prada to create a song called "The Great White Ocean" for their promotional campaign.
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At Salle Pleyel in Paris, Anohni appeared in a costume designed by Riccardo Tisci of Givenchy.
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In January 2011, Anohni was a guest on Wintergasten, a program on Dutch Television's VPRO channel, and was interviewed by Leon Verdonschot discussing her political and ecological viewpoints in reference to different film clips.
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Anohni performed at the TED conference in Long Beach in 2011 in a session on "Radical Collaboration".
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Anohni was the curator of Meltdown 2012 at the Southbank Centre in London.
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Anohni was "guest of honor" at the Melbourne Festival in October 2012, presenting a restaging of "Swanlights", as well as screening Charles Atlas' Turning, Lynette Wallworth's Coral: Rekindling Venus, and presenting Paradise, an exhibition of her drawings and collages.
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Anohni performed with orchestra for the 2013 Spring Givenchy collection in Paris, singing You Are My Sister and expanding on the theme of "Future Feminism" in literature distributed at the event.
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Anohni appeared with Martu representatives at a press conference at the MCA in Sydney and on ABC Australia's "Q and A" in further service of this cause.
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Anohni collaborated with composer J Ralph on the song "Manta Ray" from the environmental documentary Racing Extinction.
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Anohni released a statement expressing discomfort over the academy's decision to characterize her in the days leading up to the ceremony as having been "cut" from the line-up due to "time constraints", despite never actually having been asked to perform in the first place.
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On 23 February 2015, Anohni announced her fifth album Hopelessness via the Antony and the Johnsons' website and Facebook account.
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On 30 November 2015, Anohni released "4 Degrees", the first song from Hopelessness.
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On 9 March 2016, Anohni premiered the album's second single "Drone Bomb Me" on Annie Mac's show on BBC Radio 1 later that day, accompanied by a music video directed by Nabil Elderkin and starring English supermodel Naomi Campbell.
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Anohni toured throughout Europe, the US and Australia in 2016, performing with her face obscured under a veil throughout the concert, in front of stark projections of a series of lip-synching women.
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In 2020 Anohni released a single "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" by Bob Dylan and "Be My Husband", originally by Nina Simone.
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In October 2021 Anohni scored the multidisciplinary artists collective Drift's sculptural installation Fragile Future at The Shed.
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In January 2022 Anohni scored the Valentino Spring fashion show "Anatomy of Couture".
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On May 16,2023, Anohni announced the reappearance of her band, renaming it Anohni and the Johnsons.
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Anohni sang back up in Lou Reed's first full performance of his album Berlin at St Ann's Warehouse in New York in December 2006 and at The State Theatre in Sydney, Australia in January 2007.
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Anohni sang "If It Be Your Will" as a part of Hal Willner's Came So Far For Beauty concerts at the Sydney Opera House in 2005; this performance was later featured in the film Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man, a tribute to Leonard Cohen.
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In 2015, Anohni collaborated with Bjork on Vulnicuras "Atom Dance".
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In 2008, Anohni was featured on five tracks from the self-titled disco album Hercules and Love Affair, most notably on "Blind", which was voted best track of 2008 by Pitchfork Media and ranked at number 2 on the "10 Best Singles of 2008" list by American magazine Entertainment Weekly.
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Anohni worked with Bernard Butler on some acoustic sessions for the radio station XFM.
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Anohni fought tirelessly for me to have a place in the daylight culture.
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In 2017, Anohni appeared on Cocorosie's politically charged single "Smoke 'em Out" with Big Freedia, Cakes da Killa and others.
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In June 2022, Anohni appeared on Hercules and Love Affair's album In Amber.
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Anohni took the lead on six tracks including the singles "Poisonous Storytelling", and "One".
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Anohni co-composed six songs present on the record and collaborated with drummer Budgie of Siouxsie and the Banshees and the Creatures.
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In July 2008, Anohni debuted a number of self-produced visual artworks in a Brussels exhibition curated by Jerome Sans.
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Anohni was artist-in-residence at European Capital of Culture, Aarhus 2017.
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Anohni presented a multimedia exhibition at Nikolaj Kunsthal in Copenhagen in May 2018.
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In part a memorial for her longtime collaborator Julia Yasuda, Anohni published a book of photos by Julia's wife, Erika Yasuda, to coincide with the event.
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Anohni staged a play entitled "She Who Saw Beautiful Things" which included performances by Charles Atlas, Lorraine O'Grady, Connie Flemming, Laurie Anderson, and others.
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Anohni was artistic advisor for the Holland Festival in June 2023 and invited artists including Kembra Pfahler, Lynette Wallworth, Johanna Constantine, William Basinski and Adrienne Maree Brown to participate.
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Anohni oversaw a restaging of the group show Future Feminism, as well as an exhibit of photos, drawings and sculptures featuring Julia Yasuda, called "Anohni Who Saw Beautiful Things" at Huis Willet-Holthuysen.