Tones and I
Tones and I is without a shred of doubt one of the most famous pop singers and songwriters in her home country of Australia and the world in general.
She has held the all-time Australian record for the longest stay of a song at the number one position on the ARIA chart.
In 2019, Tones and I made history when she broke Crosby’s all-time Australian record of the longest number 1 position stay of a song on the ARIA singles chart.
Her single ‘Dance Monkey’, released in May 2019, spent 24 weeks on the chart beating Crosby’s ‘White Christmas’ song, which spent 22 weeks. According to Tones, she wrote the song in a dark closet in her room in about thirty minutes, drawing inspiration from her experiences as a busker on the streets of Bryon Bay. The main inspiration of the song came from a night she believes she had the worst crowd of her life. She performed to a crowd full of drunk people who made fun of her and stole from her.
Aside from her various musical talents which include singing, playing the keyboard, and drum pads, she also has a great talent for playing basketball. With the physique of an athlete as a young girl (a height of 5ft 5inches and a well-built body), Tones was a key player in the basketball team of her secondary school.
She has said in some interviews that if not for her infinite love for music, she would have pursued a career in the sport of basketball. However, she is also a great lover of other sports like football and rugby. This love for sports led to her delivering an explosive performance at the AFL Grand Final of 2019, despite many technical issues at the event. Her performance is considered one of the best pre-game music performances in history by many AFL fans in Australia.
Fashion has always been a deep passion for the musician. At a young age, she worked as a retail assistant, selling clothes in the fashion retail section of Universal Store in Melbourne. She was very good with the fashion business and made some money from it, which helped her in starting her music career.
In her music career, Tones has developed a unique fashion style for herself. She is mostly found in colorful oversized designed clothes that give her a distinctive yet beautiful look. On her website, she has an online store where fans can purchase these types of oversized clothes for themselves. The clothes have the names and lyrics of her songs printed on them.
Competition and winning awards have never been a problem for the musician. From the early stages of her career to the moment of this writing, she has been honored with many a major award in the music industry.
Battle of the Buskers by the Creek, a popular competition for busking talents in Australia was her first music competition and she convincingly won it wowing everybody at the show.
In 2019, she became Australia’s most awarded musical act. She won the grand prize of the International Songwriting Competition (ISC) in 2019.
At 2019’s ARIA Music Awards, she was honored with as many as four awards, which made her the ceremony’s most honored artist. She has also won awards from the National Live Music Awards, J Awards, APRA Music Awards, AIR Awards, and Spotify Awards in 2019 and 2020. Her maiden EP which is titled “The Kids are Coming” received gold status by ARIA in 2020.
She has a great love for humanity. Tones and I has performed several charitable initiatives across Australia. In September 2020, she co-headlined a virtual concert, with Gary Clark Jr to raise funds for the Equal Justice Initiative (a non-profit organization that provides legal assistance to prisoners who were not offered a fair hearing and have been wrongly convicted of crimes).
She cut off the majority of her shows in July 2020 due to the covid-19 pandemic. When asked about her main reason for canceling the shows, she said she would never want people to make a choice between attending her shows and caring for their health.
With over eight billion streams online (as of 2021), she has been described as one of the world’s most-streamed musicians. Her hit song ‘Dance Monkey’ is the most searched song of all time on the Shazam app. It also became the first Australian song to top the daily 200-streaming chart on Spotify. Furthermore, it held the number 1 spot for the most streamed song globally for over three months.
The music video of the song has garnered over a billion views on YouTube. Her maiden single, ‘Johnny Run Away’, also became a viral sensation in Australia shortly after its release in March 2019. The song racked up streams worldwide with over 30 million streams on all online music platforms.
What is the real name of Tones and I and where was she born?
Her real name is Toni Watson. She was born on the 13th of May 1993 in in a suburb of Australia’s Melbourne called Mount Martha. She is actually one of the most famous people from Mount Martha.
