TONIO

Try the BEST MySpace Editor and MySpace Backgrounds at MySpace Toolbox ! ANTONIO WAS BORN TO BE A STAR ON THE DAY OF OCTOBER 14, 1981 IN CHICAGO ILLINOIS. GROWING UP IN A SINGLE PARENT HOME STRUGGLING TO GET THROUGH LIFE AND POVERTY THERE WAS ALWAYS MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT IN HIS EARS AND ALL AROUND HIM. LISTENING TO OLD SCHOOL MUSIC WAS A BIG INFLUENCE TO ANTONIO’S SOUND, THE LIKES OF MARVIN GAYE, ARETHA FRANKLIN, STEVIE WONDER AND WHITNEY HOUSTON WERE SOME OF THE GREATS THAT ANTONIO LOVED, LEARNED AND TREASURED MUSICALLY THRU OUT HIS LIFE. AT THE AGE OF 4 ANTONIO HAD A PASSION FOR MUSIC AND BECAUSE OF THIS HIS STYLE OF SINGING IS SO INTRICATE AND WELL DEVELOPED. HIS VOCAL ABILITY IS SO BROAD AND RANGY HE REALLY DOESN’T KNOW HOW MANY OCTAVES HE CAN TAKE IT TO. COMING FROM A SINGING GROUP OF FOUR GUYS CALLED NONN (NO NAME NECESSARY) FROM THE WEST SIDE OF THE CHI, (GROUP MEMBERS) REGGIE WILLETT, GREGORY FLOWERS, LAMAR UNDERWOOD AND DARIUS WILLIAMS. THEY WERE AN ESTABLISHED GROUP ON THE WAY TO STARDOM UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF AND INDEPENDENT RECORD COMPANY WHEN THE CEO OF THE RECORD COMPANY WAS TRAGICALLY LAID TO REST, IN THE MIST OF THE TRADEGY THE GROUP DID NOT SURVIVE. SINCE THEN TONiO HAS BEEN WORKING TOWARD A SOLO CAREER AND NOW UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT (MARCUS WILLETT) HE HAS THE DEDICATION AND CHANCE TO GROW MUSICALLY AND CREATIVELY. THRU GOD’S BLESSINGS ANTONIO HOPES TO ACHIEVE STARDOM LIKE HIS FELLOW PEERS IN THE INDUSTRY TO DATE. WITH HIS WRITING EXPERIENCE HE HAS THE CHANCE TO PROMOTE HIS NEW SOUND THAT WILL STORM THE WORLD