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Anthony Antoine

Newark, New Jersey native Anthony Antoine McWilliams (born October 21, 1969) is the premiere jewel of unsigned and independent artists, having released 3 major label CD singles, a top 40 Billboard Dance Chart Hit and 5 additional independent CD releases.

The self-proclaimed child of eighties music began his industry career after a gutsy move to London, England at the age of seventeen. His move, what Anthony considers his "college years", placed him immediately in the heart of London's music scene where Anthony became a top session vocalist. Anthony Antoine has worked with some of London's best including Paul Hardcastle, producer of the Billboard Top 20 hit "19" and Anthony 's first single, "Swing" by The Deff Boyz featuring Tony Mac. Truth Anthony: one of Anthony's pseudonyms derived from players of the European music scene insisting that the American boy with the American accent in London should rap. "Swing" became an international dance club hit charting Top 40 on Billboard's Dance Chart and broke Top 40 on numerous European charts.

Over the next few years, Anthony lived much of his dreams of pop stardom becoming a recognizable artist in Europe releasing two more singles under the pseudonym Truth Anthony: his first, independent ZYX Record's EP release What's Goin' Down, and the jazz influenced, Island Records' single "Under Your Spell" with London based international jazz artist Ronny Jordan. With songs in radio rotation, videos on MTV and a strenuous European tour schedule including opening act for C&C Music Factory, Anthony considers these years of his career as laying the foundation for his home in the music industry today.

After six years in Europe, Anthony returned to the United States where these "college years" in London, and his subsequent graduating with honors from The Art Institute in Dallas, laid the seeds for the artist he is today. The initial capture of Anthony 's new outlook in life and song became most apparent in his fourth and most ambitious effort "Dante's Got A Man Too." Similar to the spirit that energized James Brown, Aretha Franklin and so much music that paralleled the Black Struggle in the 60's, Anthony's fourth release plays like a soundtrack of triumph in the face of his experienced life adversity. That spirit continues with the already released Songs From My Closet and the spring 2004 release of Closets on Fire, Anthony Antoine 's dream CD three years in the making.

Currently living in Atlanta, Anthony has been producing music now for over ten years and "performing since birth" he laughs and has had time to develop his craft while establishing a personal internal integrity that now reflects within his songs. In the hip-hop era of "keepin' it real" and against scores of new artists that are mere reproductions of other artists, Antoine "keeps it real" like too few artist before him. Anthony Antoine has found his audience by self-producing and distributing his own music without record label dollars and support. The result is an unfiltered truth and innovation of popular music clearly ready for major label distribution and sales.