Anthony Avatar

Introduction: Anthony Avatar is the last of a dying breed, a true native New Yorker of almost three decades, born and raised in the heart of downtown diversity melting pot Chelsea housing projects. It is a place where little kids learn what their talents are quickly as a means of socio-economic survival is also the same neighborhood to foster the creative morale of Whoopi Goldberg, Grand Mixer DXT, The Wayans Brothers, and Rakim to name a few. Rhythm has always been a fundamental part of Ant Avatars development. He can still call on his earliest memories of his neighborhood filled with Hip-hop on boom-boxes, deep house and disco pumping out of car systems, meringue in passionate flight from apartment windows, and the twilight mosaic of New York City after dark when all nightlife seemingly fled to the legendary Roxy. Ant Avatar is 1/3rd of the Boogie Brothers Collective, formerly known as a group that makes and plays music for people to dance to. He plays purely vinyl dance music and is influenced by Wayne Ford, DJ Harvey, Mark Farina, Gene Farris, and Todd Terry. Playing all over New York at Hammerstein Ballroom, Norwood, Hotel QTee (along side Shane Daddy), Apt (along side Neil Aline), Canal Chapter while holding residencies at Leux De Gamin restaurant, Ella on Wednesdays, and Santos on Sundays he aims to be the humblest of crowd pleasers. Also he likes drawing his creative influences from his experience skating for Zoo York and Supreme in 97, B-Boying, reading, doing graffiti pre, post and all through the Giuliani era Anthony Avatar. When asked what is his goal, he said that his goal is to perform simply lamented. I want the guy in the corner who doesn't even like dancing and getting it on the dance floor!