ANOHNI

Biography

Born in the United Kingdom and raised in Amsterdam and California, ANOHNI moved to New York in her late teens, forming her band in 1998 and establishing a unique musical path centered on animist and ecofeminist themes.
ANOHNI’s musical journey spans multiple genres, from experimental electronic and avant-classical to dance and soul.
She achieved widespread recognition with I Am a Bird Now (2005), which earned her the UK’s Mercury Music Prize. This was followed by The Crying Light (2009), Swanlights (2010), and the live albums Cut the World (2012) and TURNING (2014).
In 2016 she released the experimental and politically charged electronic album HOPELESSNESS, produced by Hudson Mohawke and Daniel Lopatin. That same year, she received an Academy Award nomination for the environmental elegy Manta Ray, featured in the documentary Racing Extinction (directed by Louie Psihoyos, 2015).
ANOHNI’s sixth studio album, My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross (2023), continues to shape and challenge how we think about spirituality, social structures, and our relationship with the biosphere. The record was named Album of the Year by The New Yorker.
The artist seeks courage, expression, resilience, and ceremony in the face of an unprecedented contemporary landscape, emphasizing:
“For me, there is no heavenly respite; creation is a spectral and feminine continuum, and we remain an inalienable part of nature.”