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tony potts

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About Me

Tony Potts was born the son of a preacher and gospel singer in Seattle, WA. USA. It was discovered early on that his passion for music matched his natural vocal talent. He officially bagan his career as a gospel singer at the age of 12, when he joined the Total Experience Gospel Choir. This proved to be excellent training ground for perfecting his musical ear and pitch. This training is easily recognized as you listen to the precision, clarity, tone and depth of Tonys’ voice today. Tony toured internationally with The Total Experience Gospel Choir and later with Urban Rhythms Performance Choir. He relocated to Texas at the age of 18. Tony gained even more polish and added seasoning to his song interpretation skills when he began performing in a number of musicals; Peace Child, Grand Hotel, Black Nativity to name a few. Tonys’ love for live music stage soon found him participating and fronting cover and gala bands such as Cool-ade and Generations of Music. Tony has done studio work for Conspiracy Records, Skindeep Entertainment and the Phono junkies. Tony continues to pour his soul into the music. He has been singing, living and working in Hamburg, since 2002. i am always looking for new projects and new people to work with. what do u need? a session singer? live gig? u wanna write? B.V.s? "lets work!"


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Member Since: 10/22/2007
Influences: this is tough and many people confuse who influenced them with who they listen to,,,,,my biggest influences would have 2 B, "the artist forever known as a pimp"(prince) and a lady out of seattle by the name of pat wright, marvin, donnie and terrence trent and more recently bilal.( wouldnt u love 2 hear B and prince get together?) then there are artist whom i respect and admire and try my best 2 steal some of their best licks (some more successfully than others) and the ones i listen 2. if they can B considered infulences, i dont know. listen 2 my voice and decide 4 yourself.im a soul singer, so many of the usual suspects; prince, marvin, donnie and his lovely daughter lalah, uncle charley, james ingram,dàngelo, angie stone, india, stevie, paul carrack, george clinton, jesse johnson, michael j., michael mcdonald, al green, celo green, oleta adams, james brown, bill withers,rachelle ferrell, brand new heavies, john lee hooker and many more,,, i grew up singing gospel so i would be remiss if i didnt mention, vannessa bell armstrong, the clark sisters, the entire winans family, commissioned, smokey norful, the mighty clouds of joy, the 5 blind boys from, fred hammond, on and on,,, there was a time in seattle when there was no r&b on the radio and i was bussed 2 the "other side of town" so i have 2 mention, the police, steve perry, queen, van halen, james taylor, toto, eric clapton, basia, michael franks, go west,the dixie chix, stevie ray vaughn, zztop, on and on and on jazz to country to hip hop to soul, to big band. so many more!!!
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