[ Antony and the Johnsons ]

You've heard him before. He's collaborated with Bjork and Cocorosie and he's the fucking bomb. Here's the Teri Gross interview if you get as obsessed with him as I have become:

Antony Hegarty, lead singer of Antony and the Johnsons, has a striking sound — his singing has often been compared to Nina Simone's.

Music writer John Hodgman once described Hegarty's voice as "somewhere between male and female, between childish innocence and weary adulthood, at once ethereal and earthy," while Chicago Reader critic Noah Berlatsky writes that he "frames his soaring, throbbing, mannered, and decidedly androgynous voice with complex chamber-music arrangements. ... [But he] doesn't do winking flamboyance or irony — his music is earnestly, languidly, overwhelmingly romantic."

Quick poll - did everyone think he was a black guy too? I certainly did...