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Im Steve Tonge..
Steven Tonge is a full-time, free-lance musician that has been performing in Australia and internationally, since 1992. Steven can perform as a soloist, in a male/female duo format called the Flames or Male/male duo format called Joe and Steve. These duo's also operate as a 4 to 6 piece band. Steven also teach's guitar part-time.
Steven has been performing in Australia and all around the world in Bars and Restaurants and has built up a large and versitile repetoire of music which allow's him to cater for all walks of life and age demographics.Steve Tonge was born in Sydney and came from a family of musicians. His paternal grandparents were dominant figures in the music world both in Sydney during the late 40’s and 50’s. Steven's mother is also a professional pianist and accompanist and his father was a Violinist. Obviously, this background in music impacted heavily on his musical experiences. Steven first started learning to play the piano at the age of 7 and then after a few years he changed instruments and learned to play trumpet for the Parramatta City Brass Band.
At the age of 14 Steven discovered the guitar and in a few short years began to perform in and around Sydney professionally. Steven played in a number of rock bands. The most reputable was a band called Copeland that supported bands such as the Screaming Jets, The Choirboys, The Radiators, Spy vs Spy, Dave Graney, Blue bottle Kiss, Iota, Finiscad, 78 saab, and other reputable acts that were playing around Sydney at the time
In the early 1990’s Steven delved into the writing and recording side of music. He composed music ad's for community radio stations, co-produced music for artist's and in 1998 he was recruited to compose music for an Australian comedy film called Murrabina.
It was this last project that Steven realised that he needed to learn how to sing. So he started getting singing lessons for a few years from the Opera singer “Rohan Thatcher†and now singing has become his forte
In 2000, a musician by the name of Darren Nurick offered him a position in a musical duo to perform covers at Corporate functions, weddings, pubs and clubs in Sydney. The duo was called "Darren and Steve" and built up an excellent reputation in Sydney with the hotels, agencies and the punters. In 2005 the duo dis-banded, due Darren signing a recording contract in America.
Since 2005 Steve has predominantly been performing as a soloist in Australia and Europe.
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