Manta Ray
This video is for the song “Manta Ray” from the motion picture Racing From Extinction. It was composed by transgender musician Antony Hegarty and has been nominated for an academy award for best original song.
Hegarty, vocalist for the band Antony and the Johnsons, wrote the lyrics for the song and the music was written by J. Ralph
The 88th Academy Awards airs Sunday, February 28th at 7:00 Eastern on ABC.
About Antony Hegarty
Antony Hegarty (born 24 Octоber 1971), often referred to simply as Antony or Anohni, is an English singer, composer, and visual artist, best known as the lead singer of the band Antony and the Johnsons.
Antony was born in the city of Chichester, England, in 1971. In 1981 Antony’s family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States. In 1990 she moved to Manhattan, New York to study at New York University, where she founded a performance art collective (Blacklips) with Johanna Constantine.
Entering a musical career, she began performing with an ensemble of NYC musicians as Antony and the Johnsons. Their first album, Antony and the Johnsons, was released in 2000 on David Tibet‘s labelDurtro. Their second album, I Am a Bird Now (2005), was a commercial and critical success, earning Antony the Mercury Music Prize.
