Anthony Spencer

About Anthony Spencer

Born and raised in Montreal, Canada of North African decent, Anthony Spencer began his professional music career at the young age of 12 when an old Blues Guitarist sitting on his stoop was approached by Anthony and instilled music in his life and forever changed him.
After years of practice and the inevitable thirst to learn several other instruments, Anthony was compelled to let people hear his own compositions and performed in dirty venues and seedy bars well known by all the musicians in the area.

in 1995, Anthony was mentored by the legendary Jazz musician Charlie Biddle Sr. and was taught how to express emotion through music. That same year, Myles Sanders, who managed Color Me Badd spotted Anthony at the Montreal Jazz Festival, and offered him a management deal which consequently brought him to New York City.

Anthony was quickly sent to Cove City Sound Studios in Long Island to record his first EP under the direction of Ritchie Cannata and Rick Wake with the engineering help from Doug McGuirk and Hamza Lee.

Several labels including Giant Records and Warner began to sit up and take notice but it all fell apart with Anthony Spencers manager spending all the development deal money on drugs..

Anthony continued to compose and was fortunate to have had the help of Adriana Kaegi of Kid Creole and the Coconuts, who allowed him to stay at her loft in the East Village and introduced him to a massive amount of well known and established artists and musicians.

To this day, Anthony Spencer has gone through incredible struggles to maintain his loyalty and devotion to his craft, and has also helped in composing songs for various Pop Artists well known in modern music.

After careful consideration and advice from fellow musicians, Anthony made the choice to release his works to the public in order to keep it within the music community forever.