Anthony Hüseyin is a non-binary singer-songwriter, performer and singing teacher of Turkish, Kurdish and Arabic descent, raised in Urfa and trained in classical and jazz singing in Istanbul and Rotterdam. They taught at Codarts for seven years and released Safran (2012) and The Lucky One (2017). Project O, with songs by Zeki Müren, premiered at the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin.
With jazzhane
- 17.12.2022 Psychedelic Music Explosion, Moods Zurich
About
Anthony Hüseyin is a non-binary singer-songwriter, interdisciplinary performer, and singing teacher, originally coming from Turkey, with Turkish- Kurdish and Arabic descent.
Raised in conservative Urfa in Southeastern Turkey and educated in the cities of Istanbul and Rotterdam in both classical and jazz singing. They released two albums (Safran 2012, The Lucky One 2017) and 4 singles since 2018. They taught singing for 7 years in Rotterdam Conservatory, Codarts. They won the second prize in the singer-songwriting category in The Netherlands with their second album “The Lucky One”.
In 2020 February they streamed three performances at No Musician's Land for Marina Abramovic Institute's exhibition Flux/Akış at the Sabanci Museum, Istanbul. In December 2021 Anthony presented a solo performance musical-theater piece, Potato Potahto, at Maksim Gorki Theater in Berlin.
Based on their work experience as a chef after losing their job as a teacher at the conservatory, this interactive work explored themes of labor and value hierarchies. In 2020, they received a grant from Musicboard Berlin for their third album Project O, a concept album recounting their personal and artistic quest as a queer, nonbinary musician. Anthony have released three songs of Zeki Müren from the album O and performed at venues and festivals like Music Match Festival in Dresden, Iç Içe Festival Festsaal Kreuzberg in Berlin since April 2022. In May the second single “Gizli Ask” was released at Rotterdam Opera Festival. Their third single “Yıldızların Altında” was released at Kulturbunker Köln-Mülheim in June, Fusion Festival in July and Pop-Kultur Berlin in August. On the 1st of September, the 8 songs from Project O will be released during Queer Week 2022 at Maksim Gorki Theater as a trans-disciplinary performance album release followed by an extended release tour in EU and Turkey.