Biography

Anohni is a singer, songwriter and visual artist originally releasing chamber pop music under the name Antony and the Johnsons. In 2005, her album 'I Am a Bird Now' won the Mercury Music Prize and considerable success. In 2016, under the name Anohni, she released Hopelessness, an electronic dance album exploring themes of environmental destruction and American imperialism. In 2016 she was nominated for an Academy Award for contributing the song "Manta Ray" to the environmental documentary Racing Extinction.
- IMDb mini biography by: Chris Kirk

In 2016 she was nominated for an Academy Award for contributing the song "Manta Ray" to the environmental documentary "Racing Extinction". She chose not to attend the awards when, after a month of uncertainty about whether she would be performing at the ceremony, she read in the newspaper that she had been "cut" due to "time constraints", when in fact she had never been asked to perform. She found this treatment disrespectful. She released a statement powerfully communicating her decision not to attend: https://pitchfork.com/news/63773-anohni-why-i-am-not-attending-the-academy-awards/.

The first single she bought was the 7-inch "Wuthering Heights" by Kate Bush. (Source: Uncut Magazine - January 2007).

I think back to a time before computers and cell phones, and it was a more creative time. For all the convenience involved in digital technology, I don't see what it's done other than helped create a monoculture and what use is that?

When I was seven, I bought The Kick Inside by Kate Bush, and it opened up this mystical world to me. I really believe in the magical garden as a safe place where a child can explore and develop and emerge, it's absolutely necessary for this safe place to exist and it's a feminine circle, the circle of family. The Kick Inside opened up a universe inside me - of dreams and happiness and possibilities.