Antony and the Johnsons

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Born in 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, Yazoo 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.

In New York Antony enrolled in an ‘Experimental Theatre’ course, which he says was “about as useful as a degree in knitting.” Antony staged plays and musicals but wanted more, so in 1992 he went in search of a community to attach himself to which brought about the “blacklips”. They were a theatrical troupe who put on barely-rehearsed plays almost each week as well as musicals. They regularly appeared at the Pyramid Club, in New York’s then vibrant East Village. As a drag queen, he molded himself on Isabella Rossellini in Blue Velvet, and on the bald drag queen pictured on the sleeve of Soft Cell’s 1982 single Torch.
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