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Ross Allen knows music. Mainly new but plenty of old. The broadest range of music that moves dance floors from across the era’s and across the planet. On his regular Foundation Music Specials he invites guests to share their histories and seminal tracks…
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Antony Hegarty is an acclaimed mercury prize winning singer, best known for her 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, she has released four Eps, Another World being the most recent of theese.
Hegarty is known for her unique and moving voice, which has promted much pariase from the media. In an interview with the culture show, she describes Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins as a major influence upon her singing, especially with the Crying Light.
As well as her 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, her 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.
Antony Hegarty is an acclaimed mercury prize winning singer, best known for her 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, she has released four Eps, Another World being the most recent of theese.
Hegarty is known for her unique and moving voice, which has promted much pariase from the media. In an interview with the culture show, she describes Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins as a major influence upon her singing, especially with the Crying Light.
As well as her 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, her 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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