Antoinette "Toni" Halliday (born 5 July 1964) is an English musician best known as the lead vocalist, lyricist, and occasional guitarist of the band Curve.
Halliday was born on 5 July 1964 in Parsons Green, Fulham, and brought up in various locations across Europe, before eventually settling in Washington New Town, Tyne and Wear.
From 1978 to 1980, Halliday was the lead vocalist in a punk rock band named Photofitz (initially called The Incest), a...
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Antoinette "Toni" Halliday (born 5 July 1964) is an English musician best known as the lead vocalist, lyricist, and occasional guitarist of the band Curve.
Halliday was born on 5 July 1964 in Parsons Green, Fulham, and brought up in various locations across Europe, before eventually settling in Washington New Town, Tyne and Wear.
From 1978 to 1980, Halliday was the lead vocalist in a punk rock band named Photofitz (initially called The Incest), after which Toni left to start a solo career.
The first commercially-released recording to feature Halliday was the single "The Smile and the Kiss" (1983) by the group Bonk, on which she performed uncredited backing vocals. The following year, Halliday's new band The Uncles released the single "What's the Use of Pretending", whereupon the singer returned to performing backing vocals for other artists, including the Robert Plant albums Shaken 'n' Stirred (1985), and Now and Zen (1988).
In 1985, Halliday and multi-instrumentalist Dean Garcia...
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