Anohni

British singer, composer, and visual artist, currently residing in New York (USA). Anohni is transgender and publicly changed her pronouns to she/her in 2005. Originally born in 1971 in Chichester, West Sussex, England (UK) as Antony Hegarty, coming to prominence with her Mercury Music Prize winning album (2004) under the Antony And The Johnsons guise. Now named Anohni, with the band following suit as Anohni And The Johnsons, her album Hopelessness (2016) was also nominated for the Mercury Music Prize that year. She has a strong affinity with the arts, with solo exhibitions of ther own, curating visual arts exhibitions, providing the musical score for a sculptural installation or a Valention fashion show, ...