Antony and the Johnsons

Surge Tracks

• You Are My Sister (feat. Boy George)

Artist Biography

Born 1971 in Chichester, West Sussex in England. Antony Hegarty is the second of four children. He and his family moved to Amsterdam and then to San Jose, California by the time he was 10. His mother was a photographer and his father was an engineer. In San Jose he found his Catholic School harder than in Britain as people seemed to single him out for being different. For his eleventh birthday he received his first keyboard and from then started to figure out songs from bands such as Soft Cell, Yaz and other New Wave bands developing out of the late 70s and early 80s and in school he was known to sing in the choir and in death rock bands.

He grew up as a performer going from his Catholic school into a high school for performing arts. By his late teens he was staging plays based on John Waters movies while at the University of California in Santa Cruz.

1988 brought about the cult documentary film “Mondo New York,” a tour of the city's underground music and performance-art scene which influenced his move to New York in 1990.

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Artist Discography

Albums

Antony and the Johnsons (2000-05-01)
I Am a Bird Now (2005-02-07)

EPs

Hope There's Someone (2005-06-07)
I Fell in Love With a Dead Boy (2001-01-29)
The Lake (2004-11-02)
You Are My Sister (2005-11-21)

Singles

You Are My Sister (2005)

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