Ezra Furman

Born on September 5th, 1986 in Chicago, Illinois, Ezra Furman is a flamboyant American singer-songwriter who found success as the face of the popular indie rock band Ezra Furman and the Harpoons, who released four albums from 2006 to 2011. She created the band Ezra Furman and the Boy-Friends in 2012, putting them into action shortly thereafter with a tour supporting her debut solo album, The Year of No Returning. Her sophomore effort, the blues-leaning Day of the Dog, arrived the following year to critical acclaim, receiving a five-star review from the Guardian but nonetheless failing to chart. Furman’s third album, Perpetual Motion People, went to number 23 on the UK Albums Chart. Her band, consisting of Ben Joseph on guitar and keyboards, Jorgen Jorgensen on bass, Sam Durkes on drums and Tim Sandusky on saxophone now go by the name of The Visions. An EP titled Big Fugitive Live came out in 2016, and in February 2018 the album Transangelic Exodus was released, foreshadowing a grand realisation for Furman later the same year: she identified as transgender and would from then on be using she/her and they/them pronouns. In 2019, she contributed a combination of purpose-built and back-catalogue numbers to the soundtrack for the Netflix original comedy Sex Education, cameoing in the show as the headline act at the characters’ school dance, before returning with her punkish fourth solo album, Twelve Nudes. Recorded in its entirety in Oakland, the album reached number 21 on the US Billboard Heatseekers Albums Chart, marking her first chart entry in her home country.

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