Anthony Hüseyin

Anthony Hüseyin is a non-binary singer – songwriter, interdisciplinary performer and singing teacher, originally coming from Turkey with Turkish- Kurdish and Arabic descents. 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 – song writing category in The Netherlands with their second album “The Lucky One”.

They as well work as a curator of Queer Performance Art Evening Rotterdam at Worm in Rotterdam. 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 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, brown, non-binary musician. exploration of their gender.