Tony Grey

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Voodoo Funk

Originally from Warri where he stayed throughout most of his career, Tony’s first band was the Famous Latin And His Dominant Seven. He gigged for a while as a James Brown imitator with The Great Peters, before his breakthrough fronting the Magnificient Zeinians, with some amazing 45s on EMI’s HMV imprint — best of all the psych-rock-funk monster Ije Udo. From the early to mid 1970s, his EMI sides range from Afrobeat to rock and pop. All Tony’s records are great. He came up with various names for his backing bands — the Black 7, the Super 7, the Black Kings… 
From the early-eighties, with the Ozimba Messengers, Grey’s two recordings here were originally released on different LPs: irresistible Afro-disco, layered with delirious syn-drums and sick keys, and featuring a horn-line bumptiously whipped from Louis ‘Thunder Thumbs’ Johnson’s bass-playing on MJ’s Workin’ Day And Night. 

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