Tony Martin (musician)

Infobox musical artist


Name = Tony Martin
Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Anthony Martin Harford
Born = birth date and age|1957|4|19
Origin = Birmingham, England
Genre = heavy metal
Doom metal
Hard rock

Instrument = vocals
Years_active = 1987-Present
Label = Warner Bros. Records
Associated_acts = Black Sabbath
Rondinelli
URL =

Anthony Martin Harford, (born April 19 1957) is a heavy metal vocalist best known for his work with Black Sabbath from 1987 to 1991 and again from 1993 to 1997. Martin was the band's second longest serving vocalist after Ozzy Osbourne.

Martin has since been involved in many other projects (such as the Tony Martin Band, M3, The Alliance, Misha Calvin, The Cage, Giuntini Project II), Phenomena's Psychofantasy album, yet is most remembered for his time in Sabbath, an opportunity he originally was somewhat reluctant to pursue.

Despite performing almost exclusively as a vocalist, Martin is a multi-instrumentalist, stating in [http://www.tonymartin.net/articles/rattlecage.html/ an interview] that he plays guitar, bass, drums, violin, keyboards, harmonica, bagpipes, and pan pipes. On his 2005 solo album Scream, Tony performed vocals, bass, drums, violin and additional guitar parts.

Discography

with Aldo Giuntini

*"The Giuntini Project II" (1998)
*"The Giuntini Project III" (2006)

with Black Sabbath

*"The Eternal Idol" (1987)
*"Headless Cross" (1989)
*"Tyr" (1990)
*"Cross Purposes" (1994)
*"Cross Purposes Live" (1995)
*"Forbidden" (1995)
*"The Sabbath Stones" (1996)

with Dario Mollo

*"The Cage" (1999)
*"The Cage II" (2002)

with Empire

*"Trading Souls" (2003)
*"The Raven Ride" (2006)

with Forcefield

*"Forcefield II: The Talisman" (1988)

with M3

*"Classic Snake Live Vol. 1" - "a WHITESNAKE's covers" (2003)

with Phenomena

*"PsychoFantasy" (2006)

with Misha Calvin

*"Evolution" (1993)

with Rondinelli

*"Our Cross, Our Sins" (2002)

olo

*"Back Where I belong" (1992)
*"Scream" (2005)
*"Book of Shadows" (2009)

Current solo band members

*Tony Martin - Vocals, Drums, Bass, Violin, Guitar
*Geoff Nicholls - Keyboards
*Joe Harford - Guitar
*Jamie Mallender - Bass
*Danny Needham - Drums

Former/session/guest members

First album:

*Brian May - Guitars (2)
*Tony Martin - Guitars (2,3,4 (solo),5,6,7,8,9,10,11 (acoustic)
*Paul Wright - Guitars (2)(solo),7,9,10)
*Adrian Dawson - Guitars (2 (solo),7,(solo)9,(solo),10 ))
*Carlo Fragnito - Guitars (1,4,7,9,10,11,13)
*Neil Murray - Bass (1,2,3,4,7,10,11,13)
*Laurence Cottle - Bass (5,6,8,9)
*Zak Starkey - Drums (2,3,8,9,10,11)
*Nigel Glockler - Drums (1,4,6,7,13)
*Richard Cottle - Keyboards & Saxophone (1 (Key+Sax),2,3,4,7,8,9,10,11)
*Geoff Nicholls - Keyboards (5,6,12,13)

econd album:

*Pedro Howse - Guitars
*John Taylor - Keyboards
*Cozy Powell- Drums

Touring:

*Rolf Munkes - Guitar
*Joe Harford - Guitar (Tony's son)
*Geoff Nicholls - keyboards
*Jamie Mallender - Bass
*Danny Needham - Drums

External links

* [http://www.tonymartin.net TonyMartin.Net - The Official Website]
* [http://www.rocksomething.com/features/featureTonyMartin.html Tony Martin Interview at RockSomething]