Why is there not much bio info on Tony Lemans to be found anywhere?

Tony LeMans

Released one album in 1987 called Tony LeMans

Sometime in 1992, he was killed in a traffic accident.

Recording sessions were made for the second album..... it remained unfinished.

my info may not be accurate but it's best to get the info from Tony LeMans Fans.

I'd like to know more about this too- didn't he produce something for Vanity?
Who was he exactly and where was he from?

pro said:

Actually,his one and only album was released in 1989.On Paisley Park Records.

In the early 90s,he began work on a second album.Prince offered him a song "Fuschia Light" but after the two of them got into an argument,Tony wasn't allowed to record at Paisley Park.He died in a motorcycle accident in 1992.

VanityFair said:

http://youtube.com/watch?...ed&search=

At the end of that performance, when asked by Downtown Julie Brown what was to come, Vanity mentions she was currently in the process of putting together an album. (From my understanding, it was rumored to be named "Wild Cherry"). Tony is listed as one of the producers she'd be in collaboration with on the album.

I wonder if there's any sessions from that uncompleted project. Even cooler is that she claims to have still been in contact with Prince

i think tony was related 2 billy preston as well

His very Scrittipolittiesque album was wonderful & full of promises. i guess he wouldn't have had much of a carreer anyway because of the "Paisley Park curse", but i'd have loved 2 hear his 2nd album. I'm sorry he died so soon. Very ironical is the fact that his record shows him riding a motorbike
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Thanx for the info on Tony....but it's the same info that most everybody knows or that the net provides...it would be great to find out additional info on Tony...where was he from originally..was he a recording artist before Paisley Park/Reprise...incidentally, there is a cool pic of him and Deborah Matthews at the Plant on the net.

elvisfan said:

I think nothing else was ever made public. U'll have 2 find people who actually KNEW the guy.

According to the DMSR book by Per Nilsen,Prince had tentative plans to use Tony in a movie he was planning in 1986.Titled 'The Dawn',it was a street musical about two bands trying to rival each other.Micki Free and Lenny Kravitz were also gonna be part of the cast.

Prince was planning to direct it,but not actually appear in it.
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SoulAlive said:

yep. They were to be called "The Coco Boys" because of their complexion. Mazarati were supposed to be the other band they were heading up against. The same plot that he used in G.B. against The Time which he rehashed from P.R.

blackguitaristz said:

How do you feel about that project? Do you think it would have worked?

SoulAlive said:

Yeah, more so than not. The music would have had to been good. Mazarati was set if they used tracks from their debut. I don't know about Kravitz though. This is probably why he was rocking the Andre/Jesse look for awhile. Because of this film. And it probably explain his Romeo Blue name he was using. That easily could have been the name of his character in the film. It also explains how he came to being in the film in the first place since he and Tony were really in a band together in L.A. before Tony got signed and then Lenny split to New York when Lisa got bumped off of the Cosby show. Although the name of the band was not Romeo Blue as so Lenny has said. But if P was writing the script, he would have had to have done better than that shit he wrote for G.B.

"So she's too fine huh?"
"Man, she's THREE fine!"

Were they in Jr. High or what? DAMN!

Deb is Denise's(Vanity) sister.

blackguitaristz said:

yeah,that 'GB' script was embarassing,wasn't it?