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Anohni (stylized as ANOHNI), formerly known as Antony Hegarty[5] or Antony (born October 1971), is an English singer, composer, and visual artist who has resided since her teens in the United States. She is best known as the lead singer of the band Antony and the Johnsons.

Anohni was born in Chichester, England.[1] Her family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States in 1981. In 1990, she moved to Manhattan, New York to study at New York University, where she founded the 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, 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 her the Mercury Music Prize.

In 2016, Anohni became the second openly transgender person 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.[6] Her debut solo album, Hopelessness, was released in May 2016.

Discography[edit]
With Antony and the Johnsons
Antony and the Johnsons (2000)
I Am a Bird Now (2005)
The Crying Light (2009)
Swanlights (2010)
As Anohni
Hopelessness (2016)
HOPELESSNESS Track List
1. “Drone Bomb Me”
2. “4 Degrees”
3. “Watch Me”
4. “Execution”
5. “I Don’t Love You Anymore”
6. “Obama”
7. “Violent Men”
8. “Why Did You Separate Me From The Earth?”
9. “Crisis”
10. “Hopelessness”
11. “Marrow”

Hercules and Love Affair is a dance music project created by American DJ Andy Butler in 2008. Consisting of a rotating cast of performers and musicians, the band work within the genres of house music, disco, and nu-disco.

Originally based in New York City, Hercules and Love Affair were founded following Butler's collaboration with Anohni to produce the song "Blind", which was a hit single.[2] Signing to DFA Records,[1] early members include Butler, Kim Ann Foxman, Mark Pistel, Aérea Negrot, Shaun Wright and Nellyphant.[1] In 2008 they released their self-titled debut album, which received critical praise and charted in the top 40 in several countries.

A second album, Blue Songs, followed in 2011. Butler subsequently moved to Vienna, Austria, and in 2014 the band's third album, The Feast of Broken Hearts, was released, featuring guest vocals from John Grant as well as new primary vocalists Rouge Mary and Gustaph.

Francis "Frankie" Nicholls (January 18, 1955[1][2] – March 31, 2014), better known by his stage name Frankie Knuckles, was an American DJ, record producer and remixer.[3]

He played an important role in developing and popularizing house music in Chicago during the 1980s, when the genre was in its infancy. In 1997, Knuckles won the Grammy Award for Remixer of the Year, Non-Classical. Due to his importance in the development of the genre, Knuckles was often known as "The Godfather of House Music