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Ana Matronic is an artist, musician, author, DJ, radio and television presenter, and public speaker, recognized as the female member of the rock group Scissor Sisters and for her extensive work in broadcasting and cultural commentary.
Hiro Clark and Ana Matronic partnered to celebrate the memory of legendary disco producers Patrick Cowley, Dan Hartman and Arthur Russell.
Ana Lynch, known professionally as Ana Matronic, was born on August 14, 1974, in San Francisco, California. She established her presence in the performing arts beginning in the late 1990s at San Francisco’s Trannyshack, refining her skills as an onstage performer and emcee. Her career achieved widespread recognition with the rock band Scissor Sisters, which gained prominence in 2004. During her time with Scissor Sisters, Matronic collaborated with artists including Elton John, New Order, Duran Duran, Mark Ronson, Bright Light Bright Light, and RuPaul’s Drag Race winners Sharon Needles and Alaska. Beyond musical collaborations, she has been involved in her own solo music projects.
In 2010, Matronic joined The Joshua Light Show, a visual arts collective, where she continued the tradition of creating live psychedelic imagery using liquid colors on an overhead projector. This led to collaborative live performances interpreting sound into immersive visual experiences for artists such as Lou Reed, Television, Steve Reich, Silver Apples, Medeski Martin & Wood, and Manuel Gottsching. Her career expanded into broadcasting on New Year’s Eve 2014, with her debut on BBC Radio 2. This initial appearance evolved into a 17-part series on rare groove disco and her own weekly show, “Disco Devotion.” She has also filled in for Jo Whiley’s weeknight show and covered the semi-finals of the Eurovision Song Contest for both radio and television.
Matronic’s broadcast contributions also include multiple guest appearances on British television, where she discusses a range of topics from popular culture to artificial intelligence and human rights. An author, she wrote the story “Rock Block” for a 2010 comic tribute to the punk club CBGB and published her book “Robot Takeover: 100 Iconic Robots of Myth, Popular Culture, and Real Life” in 2015. She is also a founding member of the activist organization Witches Against Fascist Totalitarianism (WAFT). Matronic was featured in “Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution,” a 2024 BBC and PBS documentary about disco music.
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