Melvin williams gospel artist tonex

Tonex - ChristianMusic.com

About Tonex Born May 16, 1975 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 1997 at age 21.  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 2002.  While a lengthy, ambitious set like Tonex's debut album, O2 was a cohesive story start-to-finish, becoming perhaps t Copyright ©patroom.pages.dev 2025