Tony Ventura

Location: Edgewater, NJ

Challenge: Polio

Website: www.facebook.com/tony.ventura.739

Tony Ventura is a bass player from New York.

He has a BA in Music from City College of New York. Some of his broadway and off-broadway credits include RENT, LITTLE SHOP OF HORROR, PIRATE QUEEN, TONY AND TINAS WEDDING, GODSPELL and MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL. He has been seen on the SOPRANO'S playing bass beside Nancy Sinatra and in the Disney movie ENCHANTED. Other film credits include LIPSTICK JUNGLE, BOARDWALK EMPIRE, DAMAGES. Tony has worked with numerous singers including, Lou Christie, Mel Carter, Darlene Love, Nelson Brothers, Bobby Rydell, The Drifters, The Tokens and Shirley Austin Reeves. He has worked with jazz guitarist Melvin Sparks, Shinobu Ito and jazz saxophonist Junior Cook.

He is a busy freelancer in the jazz, blues, and r&b circuit in NYC.