Tony Loreto

Biography Tony Loreto a/k/a Antonio Loreto born in Naples (Italy) on the 14th June 1983. At the beginning of the 90’s he was starting to get closer to house music and the club scene, when he was hooked by the recorded tape of a famous party called “Ragazzi Terribili” in Rome. The DJ of that party was Marco Moreggia, and he was the one that at first influenced Tony’s musical taste and choices. The curiosity to learn and understand what was behind the job of being a “DJ” led him to buy his first turntables and mixer. Tony’s home town is Afragola, and that was a blessing, because there is plenty of musical knowledge and talented DJ’s. With the help of local DJ’s like DJ Bruno, Lello Air and Mike Zanfardino he starts really to improve his skills as far as Djing. At the beginning Tony used to play music during house parties in his basement, starting to play and develop his own style in constant evolution. Later .. meeting with DJ Roby Maas, he definitely improved his skills for his selection and mixing technique.
In 1998, his first gig in a club came from local promoters called: “RT Group”, that wanted him to play as resident DJ durino all their events. This experience for Tony was the first real contact with a crowd.
In 1999 he met Angelo Cimmino, another talented DJ from Naples, with whom he started a series of successful private parties for a limited number of friends. In 2001 Tony managed to get a gig in one of the biggest and most important club in the area of Naples, the club is called: "Metropolis". Thanks to the famous promoters Groove Sensation he had the opportunity to play alongside some of the best DJ’s, like: Frankie Feliciano, Lil Louis and Joe Caussell.
In 2003 Tony, Fernando Silvestro and Angelo Cimmino founded “Spirit Sound”, a project that had the goal to begin the productions career, learning all the skills that were necessary to work in a recording studio. For quite a long time Tony dedicated all his time to the productions, and all the work done and the long nights up at the studio were going to open for him a new career as a producer real soon.
After so much work, the first real personal success for him arrives in 2005 when he manages to get a demo of his production to Tony Humphries, while he was playing at “Dolce Vita Club” in Salerno. The legendary DJ didn’t hesitate to test his work right on the dancefloor!
In 2007 he meets Jacko from Tony Records and together they start a new journey and production team called TJ Inc, their debut release is on Tony Humphries’ label with the acclaimed release “The Spirit EP”. They are also working on many different projects and Remixing famous R&B artists such as: Mary J Blige, Alicia Keys, Joss Stone, Heather Headley.
Currently you can listen to Tony Loreto every Friday night on the internet radio station, cyberjamz.com.
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