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Antony Hegarty is an acclaimed mercury prize winning singer, best known for his work with Antony and the Johnsons and Hercules and Love Affair. Born in 1971, Hegarty is of Irish and English Decent. Hegarty has made three albums with Antony and the Johnsons: Antony and the Johnsons, I Am a Bird Now,The Crying Light. As well as these, he has released four Eps, Another World being the most recent of theese.

Hegarty is known for his unique and moving voice, which has promted much pariase from the media. In an interview with the culture show, he describes Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins as a major influence upon his singing, especially with the Crying Light.

As well as his work with Antony and the Johnsons, Hegarty has worked with a variety of artists. Hegarty provided the vocals for the Hercules & Love Affair single Blind, described by NME as “the best kind of dance record: physical and emotional, euphorically happy and deeply, irredeemably sad. It clips along weightlessly; all disco bass, trumpets and rippling synthesiser, as Antony, his voice like tears rolling down the cheeks of a beautiful 40-year-old woman, muses intoxicatingly on lost innocence and ageing.” On Joan as Police woman’s 2006 album, Real Life, Hegarty cowrite and sang on the song ‘I Defy’. Hegarty also provided Backing vocals for Lou Reed.
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  • KostiantynRUS

    Antony это супер вокал, это то что я искал.

    May 2011
  • Cristas

    What a great Nessun Dorma cover he does ... His voice is just out of this world...

    December 2010
  • RedSoil_

    "ruined volta" tag is bullshit. I thought his part was lovely. [2]

    May 2010
  • bleachgeek4973

    "ruined volta" tag is bullshit. I thought his part was lovely.

    May 2010
  • leewashington

    Just listened to Antony's incredible version of Nessun Dorma for Lavazza at http://www.lavazza2010.com/en/brano

    March 2010
  • ALPENGIRL

    he is so Great.

    October 2009
  • ALPENGIRL

    ignorant tags :/

    October 2009
  • ChiliLady

    some butthurt cohen fans tagged him like that :(

    September 2009
  • Ethaneeze

    what is going on with the tags for him though? haha

    September 2009
  • SexiiSnoweh

    absolutely awesome !!

    June 2009
  • Makotino

    stunning voice, I just love it.

    May 2009
  • loulou311

    if you truly are in awe of antonys work join this group... http://www.last.fm/group/The+Godlike+Genius+That+Is+Antony+Hegarty

    October 2008
  • staytooned

    he doesn't sound like anyone i have heard in my life....def different. I would place his sound during the booming of classic jazz.

    September 2008
  • K-songs

    omg...that is depressing. why would people make such terrible tags? Absolutely shocking. The majority like trash, hedwigs.

    September 2008
  • HedwigsInTheBox

    What the bloody hell is with those tags!? Can you people really not appreciate utter beauty in the form of voice!?

    May 2007
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