Tony Terry is a graduate at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington.  He landed several jobs providing background vocals  for R&B/pop group, Sweet Sensation and hip-hop group The Boogie Boys.  In 1987, he signed a recording contract with Epic/CBS Records. 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.  “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.  The follow-up single, “Lovey Dovey”, reached number #4 on the R&B charts and “Forever Yours” climbed into the R&B Top 20.

TonyTerry’s second album, a self-titled release, included the single “With You” (his biggest hit) which reached the Top 20 of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, as well as was number #1 on the Top 10  R&B chart. “Everlasting Love”, was a number #6 R&B hit.  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. After leaving Epic, Tony Terry moved over to Virgin Records. His debut album for that label was 1994’s “Heart Of A Man.“ The single, “When A Man Cries”, reached the R&B Top 40.  The following year, Tony Terry contributed background vocals on the Grammy nominated single “Gotta Have Love“, from Yolanda Adams’s album “More Than a Melody.“ He also appeared in the video. Tony Terry has performed on the soundtracks to “Gladiator “starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., “Tap“ starring Gregory Hines and “King’s Ransom“ starring Anthony Anderson.

Starting in the year 2004 Tony Terry toured internationally with Roberta Flack until 2009.  In 2006 he recorded a gospel album entitled “Changed“, featured tracks such as “Praise Him”, “I Wanna Thank You, Lord”, “Nobody Like Jesus”, “Look to the Hills”, “Jesus to Hold” and “Come Child.”

Currently Tony Terry is hard at work performing and pouring his passion into his new R&B project that is due to be released soon.