Ana Matronic

Ana Matronic

Ana Matronic is a singer from Portland, United States, known as a member of Scissor Sisters. Born Ana Lynch in 1974, she joins the group after it is founded by Jake Shears and Babydaddy and after they play their first live gig at a cabaret night called Knockoff, which she founds and hosts at The Slipper Room on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Early life and performance

Before moving to New York, she lives in San Francisco and performs at the drag club Trannyshack. She is the first female performer to reach the finals of the Miss Trannyshack pageant. Her experience at Trannyshack inspires her to create Knockoff as a version of that club.

Scissor Sisters

She is the female lead singer for Scissor Sisters. The band is associated with her idea of performance as people displaying their fantasies on the outside, breaking out of the everyday and looking like their dreams.

Name and image

Her stage name is a reference to her affection for The Bionic Woman and for robot imagery, including Audio-Animatronics. She has a robotic interior tattoo on her arm. Other influences on her include Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.

Other work and associations

In 2005, she features on New Order's single "Jetstream", taken from the album Waiting for the Sirens' Call. Within the Scissor Sisters fan community, fans with a special affinity for her are known as "nuns".

Personal background

She says in 2004 that her parents' marriage breaks up when she is a toddler because of her father's homosexuality, and that her father dies of an AIDS-related illness when she is 13. She also says that her immersion in gay culture is probably an attempt to feel closer to him, and she rejects newspaper claims about trying to contact her late father's partner, saying that her father was an important parental figure in her life.