Tony Backhouse
Biography
Tony Backhouse (born 1947) is a singer, musician and composer from New Zealand and is a key player in the Australasian a cappella movement. He played in New Zealand bands such as the Crocodiles, and formed Australian a cappella groups, the Elevators, the Cafe of the Gate of Salvation, the Honeybees and the Heavenly Light Quartet. Currently he lives in Sydney and works as a singer, composer, author and workshop leader, in the areas of vocal arranging and gospel music. He composes and arranges mainly for a cappella choirs, always with an ear to vernacular traditions – contemporary funk, African choirs, gospel – and to anything polyphonic. Works that typify his style are Jubilation and (I've Been Given) Two Wing as sung by the Café of the Gate of Salvation.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
92 releases · 21 albums · active 1971–2026
- Performance · 214
- Other credits · 12
- Production · 4
Studios: EMI Studios 301 · Chartbound Sound · Mandrill Studios · Electric Avenue Studios
Frequent collaborators
- The Crocodiles
- Renee Geyer
- Various
- QED
- Kate Ceberano
- The Bend
- Annie Crummer
- Q.E.D