Guitarist tony peluso biography
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Guitarist tony peluso biography
Tony Peluso
Musical artist
Anthony F. Peluso (March 28, – June 5, ) was an American guitarist and record producer. He was lead guitarist for pop duo Carpenters from to
Peluso played the fuzz guitar solo on the Carpenters' song "Goodbye to Love".
He also contributed a disc jockey impersonation that opens the duo's cover of "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" and was the deejay who links the medley of oldies tracks on Side 2 of the Carpenters album Now & Then.
Career
Peluso came from a musical family, his mother being a successful opera singer and his father being the music director for NBC radio on the west coast.[1] His mother was Emily Hardy (), a soprano who performed most notably with The San Francisco Opera Company (debut , Musetta, La Bohème) and the Metropolitan Opera (debut , Gilda, Rigoletto).
Tony's father was Thomas A. Peluso, composer and conductor ().
He began his own musical career in , when he formed a band called The Abstracts wi