Tonetta777
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Tony Jeffrey, better known as Tonetta, (born February 15, 1949) is an elderly Canadian musician and YouTard. His music mostly sounds the same in his videos, although, his lyrics largely differ dealing with sexual fetishes such as pissing and pooping, larger women and men, and ass to mouth.
His genre of music has been described as Lo-fi (sound that is of lower quality than usual), Chillwave (heavy use of effects processing, synthesizers, looping, sampling, and hypnagogic, heavily filtered vocals with sun-drenched, simple melodic lines), and Shitgaze (traditional rock and roll recorded and played live in such an abrasive manner as to distort recordings and push amplifiers to their sonic limits).
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Musical beginnings
He began recording and writing music since 1983 when he still lived in his mother's home. He started playing guitar when he was 12 and has performed since he was 15.
He first appeared on YouTube as Tonetone444 in 2008. He then went by Tonetta777 to suggest a more feminine name, instead of Tony. That’s when he decided to dress in drag and wear masks so he would not continue getting violations and having his account suspended.
At first, he had a friend in Toronto uploading his videos to YouTube. When he was signed by Black Tent Press, he then had Dirk Knibbe from Los Angeles, California do it.
His musical influence and aspiration is John Lennon.
Personal life
Tony has two sons and is divorced. His family became aware of his music when he started on YouTube. Most apparently like his Tonetta persona, except for his son who is embarrassed seeing his father wearing a dress.
Although he is not gay, he describes himself as a sexual deviant.
He does not pay attention to music, radio, nor television and describes himself as a recluse. He refuses to play live citing his shyness.
The Scams
The record label Black Tent Press picked up Tony and made records and sold Tony's work. Tony sent his original art to Dirk from BTP, but almost no money and no art returned back. Tony tried to get into the fans with this, but as it seemed, Dirk kept selling. As for now, Dirk stopped the sales of the vinyls and the art. Tony doesn't want anybody to buy any vinyls that BTP pressed. "You're supporting the bad guy. Is that correct?" Dirk sent all the art back in a package, but Tony doesn't want to open it. "Maybe there's a bomb in there, I don't know. Maybe I can get someone else to open it. Someone dumb. Maybe they'll blow up instead of me. Haha." - Tony
Ryan Broughman put up a Tonetta campaign so he could live freely without having to worry about money. The sad thing was, that only Tony got a little bit of the money. Ryan who did the campaign, took all the rest. Tony still haven't got his money.
The man who owns the Tonetta777 facebook page (not TonettaOfficial) has also been selling photos of Tony and t-shirts taking the money himself. He claims "Tony gets his cut." but as Tony said himself, "That's a load of bullshit."
Tony explains his hate against Dirk and Ryan in his song 4 Bad Guys.
Stereo Smoke
In 2014, the newly founded record label, Stereo Smoke Records, got in contact with Tony and got all his work up on digital medias, like Spotify and iTunes. As Tony said himself, he still has all the rights to his music even though it gets distribiuted with Stereo Smoke.
Distorted View
He was first heard on DV on April 8th, 2009. He wished Tim an early happy birthday on July 13, 2009. It was announced on the April 13, 2010 Sideshow Extended program that Tonetta had been picked up by a record label named "Black Tent Press". The production values on his album "777" have been greatly enhanced.
Discography
Black Tent Press
- 777
- Get it Going b/w Mmm Mama! 45
- 777 VOL II
- 777 The Art of Tony Jeffrey
- 777 VOLUME III DBL LP
- Art work by Tony Jeffrey
Stereo Smoke Records
- Tonetta Vol. 1
Video
External Links
- YouTube Main account
- Sister Tonetta
- tj1749 (DEFUNCT)
- 777tonetta (DEFUNCT)
- rosetta717
- ethel783

