Tony Currenti

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tony Currenti
Occupation	Drummer
Date Of Birth	Jun 26, 1951(1951-06-26)
Age	73
Birthplace	Fiumefreddo di Sicilia
Country	Italy
Birth City	Fiumefreddo di Sicilia
Horoscope	Cancer

Tony Currenti Biography

Tony Currenti is one of the most popular and richest Drummer who was born on June 26, 1951 in Fiumefreddo di Sicilia, Fiumefreddo di Sicilia, Italy. Currenti originally comes from the Italian island of Sicily, where he was born on 26 June 1951. He migrated to Australia with his parents, brother and sister in 1967 at the age of 16 with no knowledge of English. After two years, his parents got homesick and went back to Italy. Currenti, at that time 18 years old, played in a band around Sydney and thought he had a future in music, so he decided to stay.

The band adopted the new name Jackie Christian & Flight. The first single, recorded under Jackie Christian handle, was “Rosy” (with “You Chose a Fine Time” as a B-side) and released in 1972. In 1974, the band recorded two songs penned and produced by Vanda & Young, namely “Love” and “The Last Time I Go to Baltimore”. “Love” was chosen as an A-side and a single was released on the Alberts label. Polydor released it under the name Jackie Christian & Target in Canada.

It was during this time in early 1974 that George Young approached Currenti and asked if he would record with his two younger brothers in a band called AC/DC. The album was called High Voltage and Tony played drums on all tracks but one (“Baby, Please Don’t Go” was recorded by Peter Clack), including the later single “High Voltage” (which appeared on the T.N.T. album and the international release of High Voltage). After recording the album, Currenti was asked to join the group but declined for two reasons; one, Currenti was loyal to his current band Jackie Christian & Flight and two, he was an Italian citizen with an Italian passport which did not allow him to tour freely in England or Europe with the band without being called up for military service.

For the following 12 to 18 months, Currenti worked for bands such as The 69ers and a little known band called Winter. He recorded tracks for John Paul Young including hit singles “Yesterday’s Hero” (1975) and “I Hate the Music” (1976).

The band was later joined by two female musicians and changed their name to Grapevine, which had a six-month residence at Jonathan’s nightclub in Sydney. After that residency ended, the two female members parted ways with the band and a name change was forced on them after they found out another group had it registered. Around 1971, the band met with Harry Vanda and George Young who suggested the band’s handsome Greek-born singer assume the name “Jackie Christian”.

Tony Currenti Net Worth

Tony Currenti is one of the richest Drummer from Italy. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tony Currenti 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 1968, while walking down King St. in Newtown, Currenti noticed a band rehearsing in a hall near a church. They had no drummer, so he “played drums” on the chairs and thereafter was asked to join the band. After a few weeks of playing in the church band, Currenti joined another band, Tin Soldiers, which performed on the TV program New Faces. After the performance on New Faces, guitarist Norm Group and Currenti formed a new band called Inheritance.

After working in and around Sydney (they scored a residence at The Groove Room, which lasted for circa 12 months), record label EMI signed Inheritance to a recording contract. In 1969, Inheritance recorded their first single called “Kookie”.

In 1972, they recorded a cover version of The Who’s “Join Together”, which was released as Grapevine featuring Jackie Christian with B-side called “That’s Life”.

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In early 1979, after getting married, Currenti decided to leave the music industry and open his own pizzeria in Hurlstone Park, Sydney. He now runs Tonino’s Penshurst Pizzeria in Penshurst, Sydney.

Facts & Trivia

Tony Ranked on the list of most popular Drummer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Italy. Tony Currenti celebrates birthday on June 26 of every year.

In July 2016, he announced on his Facebook page an October 2016 tour of Italy with tribute band Bon Scott Experience. In Italy he also performed with Overdose 74, Black Ice and Back In Hell. While in Europe, Currenti visited Germany and made a guest appearance on the album Disadvantaged by Stinger. Currenti was a special guest performer in the Bon But Not Forgotten series of concerts in Sydney and Melbourne in July 2017 to celebrate the 71st birthday of Bon Scott. The 2017 touring show, a tribute to Bon Scott, featured Currenti, James Morley, Mark Evans, Filippo Olivieri, Skenie and Simon Wright. Currenti, Morley and Wright backed up for the 2018 reprise but Evans, Olivieri and Skenie did not. Their places have been taken by other musicians.