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Toni Castells was born in Berga, Barcelona, and started his classical musical training at the age of 5 playing guitar, piano and clarinet. Toni Castells is a one-time classical musician based in London who after starting his first pop band at the age of 12, has been since experimenting and fusing classical music with popular, electronic and other commercial genres of music. Toni naturally combines unlikely musical elements, creating a truly unique sound and musical language, which inspired by some of the best classical and film composers, is easily accessible for an extremely wide audience In Momo, Toni's latest artistic incarnation, Toni produces a very intimate display, a combination of genres that uniquely reflect Toni's upbringing and influences, a mixture of pop, electronica, pop, opera, classical music and visual arts. Toni releases under his own label Instant Attraction Records and is published by Respect Music. For the Momo Project, Toni surrounds himself with a fabulous group of musicians to bring his work to the live arena, all of them good friends, whom he calls the Momo Family and whom he mostly met during his time at the Royal College of Music in London. Spanish pop star Beth Rodergas and Irish diva Roberta Howett sing alongside soprano Amelia Whiteman and the prestigious Sacconi String Quartet, conducted by film composer Louis Sebastian Mander. Toni’s live shows are designed to be like a contemporary opera where music, poetry and visuals intertwine to creat
