Tony Morans career began in 1981 when he and friend Albert Cabrera teamed to create a whole new step in the record making process. Together they were The Latin Rascals, whose re-edited versions of hit songs spliced together enjoyed major air-play on New York dance radio WKTUs popular mix show. The radio exposure led to a deal from Shakedown Studios who hired the duo to restructure popular hit radio songs into viable dance club hits. Shortly thereafter, they were contracted by another studio, Fever Records, to write and produce a song for one of their new acts, The Cover Girls. The result was Show Me, a song that not only became Tony Morans first Top 40 gold record but also helped to usher in the Freestyle era of music. This opened the doors for new artists including TKA, Safire (Boy Ive Been Told), and Lisette Melendez (Together Forever), all of whom benefited from the skillful hands of Moran and Cabrera.

Tony Moran credits his freestyle background for the pop sensibility he incorporates into his music today. Playing music that generates a feel-good energy is what I love about being a DJ/mix master, explains Tony. He eschews the strict underground house mentality preferred by many of his contemporaries and instead prefers to impart his remixes and productions with a hook laden commercial appeal that is both radio friendly and dance floor ready. Tony measures a successful dance floor with the number of hands in the air, dancing and singing along.  

Dance music is where my heart is. Over the last year I've worked on developing dance music that is also pop music. Working with artists like Donna Summer (Universal Music), Kevin Aviance (Emerge Records) and Becky Baeling (Universal Music) has been really exciting for me.

Tony Moran has been a major contributor to the dance and pop music scene. Whether as a music editor, record producer, songwriter, singer or DJ, he has stayed on top of his game, exhibiting time and time again that his creativity is unrestricted. I don't try to reinvent myself. I work at making music and playing music because I love it. I don't set boundaries, nor do I allow them be built around me, explains Tony. I go where the music takes me. Tony has written and remixed for: Gloria Estefan, Celine Dion, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, Barry Manilow, George Michael, Patti Labelle, Michael Jackson, The Beach Boys, The Cover Girls, TKA, The Latin Rascals, Kenny G, Luther Vandross, Cyndi Lauper, Cher, Donna Summer, Becky Baeling, Britney Spears, Kevin Aviance, Deborah Cooper, Beyonce Knowles, Deborah Cox and more recently Kristine W, Brooke Hogan, Rihanna & Jennifer Lopez just to name a few.

Today, Tony Moran enjoys being back in the DJ booth. I never left the turntables, he says. I had been keeping my sets more private as I spent more time in the recording studio. But DJing provides a spectacular way of communicating and sharing all the love and passion that is inside of me. When I see my friends and other new faces enjoying themselves on the dance floor, it is a huge payoff and the energy that I feel gets poured back into what I create in the studio, explains Tony. Tony has turned out dance floors from: Tel-Aviv to Rio de Janeiro, New York to LA, and just about everywhere in between. Carnival (Rio), White Party (Miami), Crobar (New York, Chicago, Miami), Whistler - Altitude 12 (Vancouver), Metropolis (San Francisco), Red Eye (Los Angeles), Blu (Atlanta).

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