| Antony

Antony first presented his songs in after-hours cabarets at the Pyramid in NYC. After receiving a N.Y.F.A. fellowship for "performance art / emergent forms" Antony assembled the Johnsons and recorded his first album. The group presented concerts at The Kitchen and Knitting Factory before beginning a residency at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater.

Antony and the Johnsons have since performed at venues including the Bloomsbury theater in London, Central Park SummerStage, the Nancy Jazz Festival, the Warhol Museum, the Wexner Center, Townhall in NYC, MASS MOCA, and Royce Hall, UCLA.

Antony sings on Lou Reed's albums The Raven and Animal Serenade and toured with Lou internationally in 2003. Antony appeared as an androgynous convict singing to a crowd of inmates in Steve Buscemi's film Animal Factory. He also appeared recently singing I Fell in Love to a Dead Boy to a crowd of empathetic Parisian transsexuals in Sebastien Lifshitz's latest film Wilde Side.

Antony was featured in the 2004 Whitney Biennial; he collaborated with Charles Atlas to stage a 3 night sold out series at Saint Ann's Warehouse in NYC called Turning. A concert and live video installation, Turning featured Antony and the Johnsons playing before a cast of 13 slowly revolving Beauties, whose images were simultaneously processed and projected onto a giant screen.

Antony and the Johnsons' first recordings were released by David Tibet on his label, Durtro in the UK. In Summer 2004, Antony signed to the Indiana based label Secretly Canadian, who released the new Antony and the Johnsons album I Am a Bird Now in February 2005.