Hailing from St. Catherine, Jamaica, Tony studied music at the Montego Bay Boy’s Club and played in various bands while still in school from 1976-1977. Then for three years, he worked with a dance band out of Ocho Rios called Infinite Sensuality until in 1982 he got an opportunity to spend a year in Los Angeles playing drums on Stevie Wonder’s project with the Jamaican Band, Happiness Unlimited.



In 1984,‘Ruption’ was recruited by the legendary Jimmy Cliff. He stayed with Cliff for 7 years and played on three of Cliff’s albums: Breakout; Imagine and Hanging Fire. He also played on albums for Burning Spear and international artiste, Khaled. In ’91, he joined one of the leading backing bands in Jamaica - SANE, and for 5 years they backed several renowned artistes, including Judy Mowatt, Michael Rose, Sugar Minott, Gregory Isaacs and Freddie McGregor.



Following this he played with Julian Marley’s band for a year, while developing his own band in Montego Bay, Fi Real. Joining Third World in early 1997, ‘Ruption’ has brought an intensity and precision, balanced by his playfulness that gives the rest of the band both the safety and the freedom to do spontaneous experimentation with the music.