He is an Assyrian singer, born in February 24, 1972 in Kirkuk, a city in Iraq. His father was a truck driver for an oil company, and his mother was a housewife who took care of raising Tony and his four sisters and three brothers. His brother James was his role model while he was growing up, he taught him everything about singing. He started his singing career back in 1988 in kirkuk, and in 1990 he started singing in Baghdad at Nineveh and Ashoor's banquet halls, the name of the band was called Ashur King's band.

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