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.
Berlin’s DJ icon, queer-activist and producer İpek İpekçioğlu, the multi-instrumentalist, composer and sound designer Ceyhun Kaya and the culturally confused singer Petra Nachtmanova present their new and innovative collaboration: a fine and powerful mix of ancient Anatolian songs, Eastern European melodies, living and dead languages, Electronic sounds and mind-blowing instrumental solos on the Clarinet, Saxophone and Synthesizer. Inspired by poetry from the 11th century until today, poems by Yunus Emre, Omar Hayyam, Eastern European folk tales as well as modern Western poetry, Karmatürji embeds its lyrics in a soundscape of the electronic present. Petra Nachtmanova sings in Turkish, Polish, Persian and Russian mixed with English, German and even Latin. The two largest immigrant communities in Germany being from Turkey and Poland, this is a truly Berliner project reflecting the origins of the band members and the cultural landscape of the city.