Anthony F Peluso was an American guitarist and record producer.
13 Facts About Tony Peluso
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Tony Peluso was lead guitarist for pop duo Carpenters from 1972 to 1983.
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Tony 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.
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Tony Peluso's mother was Emily Hardy, a soprano who performed most notably with The San Francisco Opera Company and the Metropolitan Opera.
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Tony Peluso began his own musical career in 1968, when he formed a band called The Abstracts with three college friends.
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Tony Peluso recalled Tony Peluso from a time when Mark Lindsay and Instant Joy opened for the Carpenters.
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Karen Carpenter called Tony Peluso and asked him to play a guitar solo.
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Tony Peluso subsequently joined the Carpenters recording and touring band as lead guitarist.
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Tony Peluso worked for the next decade at Motown Records where he recorded artists such as Smokey Robinson, The Temptations, the Four Tops and Michael Jackson.
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Tony Peluso worked with Latin pop musicians such as Ricky Martin, and Mexican rock bands such as Molotov and Cafe Tacuba.
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In 2005, Santaolalla and Tony Peluso produced the soundtrack to the motion picture Brokeback Mountain.
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Tony Peluso won four Grammy Awards during his career, and was awarded numerous gold and platinum records representing sales in excess of 150 million units during his diverse music career.
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Tony Peluso died at age 60 in Los Angeles on June 5,2010, from heart disease.