Tones and I is the pseudonym of Toni Watson, a young Australian singer-songwriter. In 2019, Watson broke into the Internet space with the pop ballad “Johnny Run Away” and in a short time achieved fantastic popularity, rightfully taking her place next to the brightest stars of the world show business.

Biography of Tones and I

The real name of the Australian singer, whose appearance in the musical orbit was one of the highlights of 2019, is Toni Watson. The artist was born on May 13, 1993 in one of the most beautiful places in the world, on the Mornington Peninsula, in Australia.

On the Internet, you can often find information that Tony was allegedly born in 2000. Journalist Nick Bond provided irrefutable evidence – the future singer was born much earlier. He analyzed her social networks, which shows that in 2009, 2013 she looked clearly older. Many of the photos and videos are already worn, but look at one of the proofs below – this is a video from 2009. Does it look like an eight year old girl?

According to Tony, she first realized that she could sing when she was seven. According to the singer, during a family picnic in the suburbs of Melbourne, her aunt heard her voice and said that she had a real talent. Then little Tony did not quite understand what her aunt meant, but she remembered her words. In high school, Toni already understood that her life would somehow be connected with music, she learned to play the piano in a music studio and independently mastered playing the percussion instruments. Like many Australian schoolchildren, Toni not only studied, but also worked. She saved money from a grocery store salesman’s salary and was able to buy her first sampler.

Until 2017, Toni lived on the Mornington Peninsula, she performed as a soloist in some local bands at the National Park holidays and made a living playing in clubs. As stated in the English-language Wikipedia article on the singer’s work, in the fall of 2017, Toni bought a used van and went to Byron Bay, where she began performing as a street musician. During her first days in Byron Bay, she met Jackson Walkden-Brown, who became her manager. According to Tony, she was not sure that she would succeed, and the money she earned was barely enough for a modest dinner and a pint of beer.

Tony completed her hit song, “Johnny Run Away”, in March 2018, but on Jackson’s advice, she continued to develop her voice and develop her own style over the course of several months, working all day as a busker. At the end of 2018, she took first place in the traditional Battle of Street Performers, and in February 2019, under the pseudonym Tones and I, she released the song “Johnny Run Away”. Two weeks later, in March, the song of the young singer entered the top hits of the main Australian sales charts and opened her name not only to her native Australia, but also to America and European countries.

Singer Tones and I – the talent that conquered the world

In the spring of 2019, Tony, or Tons, as her fans began to call her, announced herself with the song “Johnny Run Away”, which was written in the form of a confidential conversation with a friend and contained answers to questions that have been worrying young people all over the world for centuries. Two weeks after the release of the song on sale, Tony gained the status of a national sensation, and the rise of a new star was confirmed by the second song, danceable and ironic “Dance Monkey”, released in May 2019. The composition topped the charts in Europe, Asia and Africa and broke the record set in 2014 by Australian pop group Justice Crew’s hit “Que Sera”.

Personal life of Toni Watson

The question of whether the blonde Australian singer’s heart is occupied worries many of her fans, but she does not give an answer to it. In 2019, Tony turned twenty-six, on her Instagram page she often posts photos with her many friends. The closest of her friends she calls her manager Jackson Walkden-Brown, who helped her at the very beginning of her career, and a musician named Jimmy, to whom she dedicated the song of the same name. According to Toni, she will never sing about girly issues like hair, figure or diamonds, which many girls are known to consider best friends. For Toni Watson, it is important to feel harmony in the body that was given to her by nature and to feel an emotional connection with the audience.

Toni Watson now

Despite Toni’s fantastic popularity all over the world, there is very little information about her in Russian, and the question of who sings the perky “Dance Monkey” continues to excite Russian music lovers. In the fall of 2019, the song set a second, even bigger record, beating the bar set by Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You”, named the highest paid music artist. In September 2019, Toni Watson embarked on a European tour, in which she presented her debut EP, The Kids Are Coming, which was released at the end of August this year. In November, the video for “Monkey”, filmed in the style of the comedy “Old Farts”, passed the threshold of 240 million views, and the composition also became the most streamed “female” song on Spotify and entered the top 10 songs of the American iTunes sector.

At the end of November 2019, Toni became a guest on Jimmy Fallon’s famous author’s show, on the air of which she spoke about plans to release a full-length album and continue to explore the world through the emotions that listeners generously give her.