Tonex biography
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American musician and dancer
| Birth name | Anthony Charles Williams II |
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| Also known as | , , The Architect, Tonéx, TON3X, , The Black Maverick, O'ryn, Pastor N8ion, LeMar Jackson |
| Born | () May 16, (age&#;49) |
| Origin | San Diego, California |
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| Years active | –present |
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Musical artist
Anthony Charles Williams II (born May 16, ), better known by his stage name and formerly known under the gospel moniker Tonéx (TOH-nay), is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, rapper, dancer, producer, and activist from San Diego, California. He has gone by various names and aliases, but his primary stage name of choice had for years been "Tonéx". In , he began using the stage name to rebrand himself.[1]
Williams has released several hundred songs on dozens of albums throughout his career while producing several others for both gospel and secular artist
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About Tonex
Born May 16, in San Diego, California, Anthony Charles Williams II is better known by his stage name TONEX (pronounced "toe-nay"). His father, Dr. Anthony Williams, was Senior Pastor and District Elder in the Truth Apostolic Community Church in suburban Spring Valley, and his mother was also a minister.
Tonex recorded and independently released his debut album, Pronounced Toe-Nay, in at age It was an incredibly ambitious - almost brazen - debut, featuring 21 songs broken up into seven catogories: retro/funk, hip-hop/rap, soul/gospel, jazz, mellow grooves, the future, and bonus tracks. It showed a young artist virtually bursting with ideas and sounds, most of them interesting.
Expectations were high for his second release, but O2 wasn't released until While a lengthy, ambitious set like Tonex's debut album, O2 was a cohesive story start-to-finish, becoming perhaps the definitive soul/gospel masterpiece
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Tonex
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Gospel singer, songwriter, producer
Among the most exciting figures to emerge in contemporary gospel music in the early s was Tonex, pronounced, as the title of his first nationally distributed skiva announced, Toe-Nay. Tonex's music was compared to that of Prince and Michael Jackson, and even to that of the imaginative funk pionjär George Clinton. Incorporating funk and rock influences into gospel, his recordings and concerts were notable for their bred stylistic range. Tonex encountered controversy with his unusual appearance, which included a quartet of religiously oriented tattoos. In some ways, however, he was a very traditional gospel musician, leading a choir of his own and becoming active, like many of the genre's greatest figures, as a minister.
One traditional aspect of Tonex's background was that he grew up immersed in church music. Born around , he grew up in the San Diego, California area. His father, Dr. Anthony Williams, was Senior Pastor and Distr