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Tony and Kiki hope you “light up” for the non-binary People’s Day

Today (July 14) is International Non-Dual Nations Day, but Tony & The Kiki celebrates gender mobility and true self-expression 365 days a year.
Tony & The Kiki, led by the powerful singer Anthony Alfaro, is a new psychedelic rock band with influence in every field-think Stevie Nicks, La Lupe, The Spice Girls. This is a passionate project by Alfaro, a self-proclaimed “Gender Fucking Latin Rock Bruyer” who worked for Gloria Estefan while touring with the Miami Sound Machine.
“This band exists because I want to create a voice I long for but I haven’t heard,” they told NewNowNext. This project took shape when Alfaro met Tony & The Kiki’s resident producer-”Synthetic Hoe”, a non-binary musician Max Vernon, at a strange surrender in the Lower East Side of New York City. The story, understand this: they tried to summon souls from the 1970s). The atmosphere was “immaculate,” Alfaro recalled. The duo later decided to convene some of their favorite local “music witches”—including guitarist Junior Pauls, bassist Yuka Tadano, “key master” Rodney Bush, and drummer Tristan Marzeski— -For a suitable kiki. The rest is history.
Now, Tony & The Kiki is preparing to release their first EP Light It Up this fall. The band also exclusively provided NewNowNext with an EP epic, gorgeous rock-inspired title track, which premiered today to commemorate the International Non-Dual People’s Day.
In “Light It Up”, Alfaro’s rich singing gleams with hot guitar improvisation and exaggerated percussion. “Call all my indigo / live in the shadows / it’s time to make a sound,” Alfaro declared, and summoned their LGBTQ+ compatriots, people of color, Bruchs, and anyone else who feels strange because of themselves.
“Whether it is singing or writing, I always try to guide my inner divine femininity and masculinity,” they explained. “From a very young age, I put on my mother’s stilettos and sang my parents’ old records while singing. As I grew up, I knew very well that society would not fall into all this, but in the end, I Just say “fuck”, found a pair of purple python platforms, and became rock and-the magical girl I saw in my mind.”
Before founding Tony & The Kiki, Alfaro felt that rock music was their favorite genre, “a pure white brothers club.” “Light It Up” is the band’s battle cry and Alfaro’s way of proclaiming, “I am here now, Mamí.”
Listen to the complete “Light It Up” below, but be aware that it will make you want to light up the world.


Post time: Jul-16-2021
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