Antony Hegarty

British experimental musician David Tibet of Current 93 heard a demo and offered to release Hegarty's music through his Durtro label; the debut album, Antony and the Johnsons, was released in 1998. In 2001, Hegarty released a follow-up EP, I Fell in Love with a Dead Boy, which, in addition to the title track, included a covers of a David Lynch/Angelo Badalamenti song Mysteries of Love, and a Current 93 song. Antony and the Johnsons' 2005 album I Am a Bird Now won the UK's prestigious Mercury Prize and was called Album of the Year by Mojo magazine.

Antony and the Johnsons collaborated with experimental film maker Charles Atlas and presented TURNING in Nov 2006 in Rome, London, Paris, Madrid, and Braga. The concert featured live video portraits of some of New York City's most enigmatic women. The Guardian called the piece "fragile, life affirming, and truly wonderful (five stars)" Le Monde in Paris hailed TURNING as "Concert-manifeste transsexuel". In 2006 Antony collaborated with Icelandic musician Björk in recording sessions in Jamaica and Iceland. The songs, The Dull Flame of Desire and My Juvenile, feature on her 2007 album Volta. In late 2007 he was voted one of Out.com's 100 gay men and women to "rock" the year as a distinctive "balladeer".

His lyrics are related with different aspects of transsexual life because Antony defines his self as a transsexual, this is tell in songs as My Lady Story and For Today I’m a Boy.

His success is great and what we want to get notice is the importance of give music and letters to another kind of experiences in order to touch more people and hearts to understand people that want to be different. This is what his songs are looking for:

One day I'll grow up, I'll be a beautiful woman.
One day I'll grow up, I'll be a beautiful girl.
But for today I am a child, for today I am a boy.

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Hegarty
http://letrascanciones.mp3lyrics.org/a/antony-and-the-johnsons/for/