Tony Riley

My music career started at the age of 12, doing local talent shows. As the years went on I was in several bands and singing groups, my career came to a halt from 81 thru 91.In 91 my career picked back up when a local music producer took me in the studio to do some background vocal's on one of his artist album, thru this union I met a brother with a powerful voice. We did some local gig's when we realized people well loving it, so we decided to make this act official, thus MEN OF SOUL was born we were the hottest local act around. One evening while performing Alex & Richard were at our show to my surprise they were part of THE PERSUADERS. We talked about me joining the group but my dedication was with MEN OF SOUL, a few month's later MEN OF SOUL came to an end be cause my partner relocated out of state. Low and behold THE PERSUADERS drafted me into the group, and we continue to keep the late Tommy Hill's dream alive by being the only ULTIMATE PERSUADERS.