But again, I was signed to an R&B label at the time and they were not interested in doing a gospel album on me. At that time I wanted to tell the world about the goodness of the lord & I did. I went though a period where I needed to and wanted to reconnected spiritually. Tony Terry: “Changed” was a bit of a testimony actually. : What made you decide to release the gospel CD “Changed?“ It’s one of the more powerful songs that’s on this upcoming project. But I didn’t think it would effect people the way it has been effecting people the way it has on their first listen. I have a song called “Should A Man” that I think is a very powerful song. So I just do that and hopefully the music will effect people accordingly. I’m singing what I like to sing, my job is to sing the music with conviction and truthfulness.

Oppose to just making the type of music that I’m inspired by so that’s what I have ultimately done with this new project. Whatever was happening, I was like let me make a song like that. But I found myself trying to make music of today. Tony Terry: I hope so! I’ve been working on new music for awhile now, something is about to drop really soon I’m excited about that. : You first came out in the age I like to call of real R&B, where artists like yourself were putting out timeless music, as an artist from that time do you ever think R&B will be back to where it once was? The video that resulted in that conversation is the video that we all know. The rest is history, relative to the song becoming the fabric of alot of peoples lives. So she said Terry I’m going to send you a check, I want you to shoot a video for “With You.” She hooked me up with Blair Underwood for the video, sent me a check for $50,000 and I went to LA and shot the video. Anita was like man those people wouldn’t know a hit if it hit them in the forehead. So she was asking me about the video and I explained to her that the label didn’t think the song would be a hit. She was telling me about the song that had awaken her the night before and I thought it was a joke, I didn’t really believe it. It was divine intervention because she called me one day and I had not met her. It wasn’t until Anita Baker became involved as the executive producer of the video. So they ended up releasing the record but with no support, but the single wouldn’t go away.

So I went to bat for it and I won the argument, because no was not acceptable. So I felt being that if I was effected by the song, others would be effected by it as well. The thing that really connected to me was the story. Of course I felt passionately about it, the song is really simple. I was actually called into a meeting by the President of the label at the time, to convince me to not use it on the album, let alone use it as a single. I have an interesting story about how “With You” ended up being on my record. Tony Terry: I knew there was something special about the song. : “With You” is such a classic song, did you have any idea you were recording such a timeless song when you were recording it? In this exclusive interview with, as apart of our anniversary interview series! Tony Terry talked to Aries about his upcoming release, how Anita Baker saved “ With You,” touring, his lover’s lounge and much more! Terry also hosts “ The Tony Terry Lover’s Lounge” which is an event held the first and third Thursday featuring live performances by Terry, with special guest speakers and performers and conversations between the audience and Terry regarding love and romance. In 2006 he recorded a gospel album entitled “Changed.”Ĭurrently Tony Terry is hard at work performing and pouring his passion into his new R&B project that is due to be released soon. Starting in the year 2004 Tony Terry toured internationally with Roberta Flack until 2009. In 1991, Tony Terry earned two Soul Train Music Award nominations for Song of the Year and Artist of the Year for “ With You”, “With You” also received an American Music Award nomination. “ Everlasting Love“, was a number #6 R&B hit. Billboard Hot 100, as well as was number #1 on the Top 10 R&B chart. Tony Terry’s second album, a self-titled release, included the single “ With You” ( his biggest hit) which reached the Top 20 of the U.S. The follow-up single, “ Lovey Dovey“, reached number #4 on the R&B charts and “ Forever Yours” climbed into the R&B Top 20. “ Forever Yours”, Tony Terry’s debut album for Epic, was released in 1988, and reached the Top 40 of Billboard’s R&B albums chart. Tony Terry’s first single, “ She’s Fly“, was released the same year, and peaked at number #10 on the Billboard R&B singles chart. In 1987, he signed a recording contract with Epic/CBS Records. Tony Terry is a graduate at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington.

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