Anohni

Overview

Anohni (née Antony Hegarty) born Chichester, West Sussex, England October 24, 1971. Popular British singer of anti-war songs; War Child album 2005 benefit for Bosnian war children; protested fifth year of Iraq War 2008; 2016 album Hopelessness includes “Drone Bomb Me”.

Quotations

“It's a love song from the perspective of a girl in Afghanistan, say a nine-year-old girl whose family's been killed by a drone bomb. . . She is kind of looking up at the sky, and she's gotten herself to a place where she just wants to be killed by a drone bomb too." (“Ahnoni”, Rolling Stone, March 9, 2016; photo dallasvoice.com)