About Anthony

I was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, but my family moved to Kittery, Maine when I was very young—probably before I was even two years old. I grew up on the Seacoast in a working-class family. My mother was a stay-at-home mom with a beautiful singing voice, and my father worked long hours at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Music was always in our home, but it became especially important after tragedy struck when I was four years old. My older brother Adam, just eight at the time, fell from the Sarah Mildred Long Bridge and drowned. To cope with the loss, my parents turned to music—weekends often meant records spinning on the stereo and singing on the front porch. My parents loved to go out dancing, and those moments helped keep our family together through grief.

I first picked up my mother’s guitar at the age of twelve, but even then, I knew I wanted to sing more than play. Writing came naturally to me as a way to process feeling alone and picked on at school. Eventually, my singing and writing merged, and songwriting became my way of making sense of the world.

My earliest influences ranged from prog rock and classic bands like Yes, Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, CSNY, and The Doors, to mainstream icons like Madonna and Michael Jackson, to the alternative sounds of Guns N’ Roses, Green Day, INXS, and Stone Temple Pilots. Locally, I found inspiration in artists like Dan Blakeslee, N.S.I, Groovechild, Fly Spinach Fly, the Bruisers, Rustic Overtones, Choosy Moms, Ryan Montbleau, The Press Project, the Amorphous Band, The Queers, and Thanks to Gravity.

After high school, I didn’t immediately go to college. Eventually, I attended York County Technical College, and later Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston to study Electrical Engineering Technology. I did well academically, but in the wake of 9/11 in 2001, I left during my junior year. Around that time, I worked as a broadcast technician for Clear Channel Communications while also pursuing music with my band Toy God.

In 2003, after losing my job at the radio station, struggling with relationships, and working a temp job at Pease, I had a nervous breakdown. It was one of the lowest points in my life, but shortly after, I met Yori—someone whose influence and inspiration I will always be grateful for. That period also marked the beginning of The Potown Underground, a funk rock group I co-founded with Dan Fancher, Alex Burhoe, and Bobby Koutelis. At its height, the band opened for the Rustic Overtones at The Stone Church. When the band dissolved in 2004, I shifted to solo work and continued performing for several years.

In 2010, I married, and in 2015 and 2017, my sons Ezzelin and Emiliano were born. With the pressures of family life, I took a step back from music to focus on being a husband and father. After years away, I returned to music in 2022 during a time of personal change, finding in it once again the outlet and lifeline it had always been.

Music, for me, has never just been performance—it has been healing, expression, and connection. From a childhood shaped by loss and resilience to decades in the Seacoast music community, songwriting has always been how I’ve carried forward the voices of the past, the struggles of the present, and the hope for what’s next.