Word: toning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PERFORMER: TONY TONI TONE...
Close your eyes and listen to Tony Toni Tone's graceful new CD and you may think you're hearing one of those sidewalk sale records. The Tonyies are lead singer and bassist Raphael Wiggins, his guitarist brother D'wayne Wiggins, and their cousin, drummer Timothy Christian Riley. They're all in their mid-20s, and this CD is an R.-and-B. tribute to the music they grew up with. My Ex- Girlfriend borrows the bridge from Sly and the Family Stone's 1968 song M'Lady. As another cut fades, Raphael sings, "Last night a D.J. saved...
...shift starts to kick into gear with the fourth track, "Cut to the Chase." While still brandishing good bass playing and skillful tone variations, this song adds one more thing--real violin music...
...concerns of people born between 1961 and 1981. One of the founding members, Douglas Kennedy, 26, son of Robert Kennedy, claims the nonpartisan group now has about 50 participants in New York City and Washington, along with supporters in almost every state. "We've put our finger on the tone of who we are as a generation," he says...
...glimpse of the campaigner the U.S. has not seen since last November. At the opening summit session Wednesday, he worked the room like a campaign kaffeeklatsch, stopping to chat briefly with each of the other leaders before taking his chair. Though he talked tough at times, he set the tone at that first meeting with a sentence that sounded more Japanese than Clintonian: "In hard times we shouldn't react like porcupines. We should open up like sunflowers." He also appealed directly to the Japanese public in a speech at Waseda University. One point: Japanese consumers are hurt...