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"Tony Valdez is 34, about 6-foot-3 and close to 300 pounds, with long dark hair, dark features and a penchant for all-black stage attire -- the literal image of large and in charge. He's better known locally by the stage name Maurice Stubbs, and he owes his career to the music of others.



He started in a cover band called Renaissance 13, co-founded popular disco-era tribute Boogie Wonderland and '80s variety tribute Saved by Zero and now heads up two fledgling tributes -- Controversy, a nod to the "Minneapolis Sound," built on a heavy foundation of Prince songs, and the Afronauts, dedicated to old-school funk. "



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