Tony Lucca

Anthony James Lucca (born January 23, 1976) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor.

He is perhaps best known for starting his career on The Mickey Mouse Club.

After the Mickey Mouse Club, Lucca went to Los Angeles for a brief career as an actor, then became a full-time musician.

He has toured with several acts, including Maroon 5, Kelly Clarkson, *NSYNC, Marc Anthony, Sara Bareilles, Matt Duke, Tyrone Wells, and the late Chris Whitley.

In 1995, after the cancellation of the Mickey Mouse Club, Lucca moved to Los Angeles to begin an acting career.

He lived with fellow Mickey Mouse Club castmate Keri Russell, his girlfriend at the time.

Russell and Lucca were cast and played leads together on the Aaron Spelling-produced Malibu Shores, a television teen drama series, which lasted for one season.

During this time he filmed commercials for Levi Jeans, J.C. Penney, and Blockbuster Video.

He had minor success in movies, appearing in an NBC movie of the week, Her Last Chance with Kellie Martin and Jonathan Brandis, as well as two independent features.

He left acting in 1997 to pursue music.

In 1997, Lucca self-released his first music album, So Satisfied, which he also co-produced.

In 1998, he launched his website www.tonylucca.com and began to sell his debut CD and its self-released follow-up, Strong Words Softly Spoken through the website and at live shows he later released two EPs and a limited series of Live & Limited CDs through his site; each CD sold was numbered and signed.

In 2001 and 2002, he served as opening act for boy band NSYNC, which featured fellow Mickey Mouse Club co-stars Justin Timberlake and JC Chasez.

Lucca's third full-length album and his first commercially distributed, Shotgun, was released in 2004 in conjunction with Lightyear and New Vibe Records; the album was executive co-produced by JC Chasez, who Lucca toured with to support the album.

2006 saw the release of Canyon Songs, recorded in both Laurel and Beachwood Canyons, and Live in Hollywood, a live concert album; both albums were distributed by Rock Ridge Music.

Come Around Again was released in 2008.

Lucca participated in a cooperative tour with Jay Nash and Matt Duke, which resulted in the 2009 EP entitled TFDI.

The collaboration, which stands for "Totally Fuckin' Doing It" was recorded in the Evanston, Illinois, studio SPACE during an impromptu visit to the studio, after the three artists formed a friendship during the tour.

Lucca briefly returned to acting in 2010, starring in a 901 Silver Tequila commercial, which was directed by the brand's founder Justin Timberlake.

He also played himself on an episode of Parenthood, appearing as a performing musician.

Lucca's sixth album was released in 2010, entitled Rendezvous With the Angels, on Rock Ridge Music.

Solo, an acoustic CD composed of b-sides and previously unreleased recordings was released in November 2010, and given away for free in conjunction with Amazon.com's MP3 web store.

Lucca recorded a second collaborative CD with Jay Nash and Matt Duke, TFDI II, which was released mid-2011.

He finished in third place on the second season (2012) of the American reality television singing competition talent show, The Voice, broadcast on NBC.

Lucca was born in Pontiac, Michigan, the son of Sally and Tony Lucca.

Lucca is of Italian, Welsh, French, and English descent.

Lucca grew up around a large and musical extended family, as his mother Sally was tenth of twelve children of the Detroit jazz piano player James "Jimmy" Stevenson.

Lucca grew up in Waterford, Michigan, and began singing at age 3 and child modeling at age 9.

When he was 12, he began playing in Detroit-area bands with his cousin, Cole Garlak.

When Lucca was 14, he went to Detroit to audition for the Disney movie Newsies, only to find out the audition was for The Mickey Mouse Club instead.

Encouraged by his sister, he auditioned for the show and was picked for callbacks in Los Angeles.

In Los Angeles, he was selected along with 8 other kids to join the cast for the fourth season of the show.

Lucca moved to Orlando, Florida, with his mother and lived in an apartment complex with other castmates and traveled back to Michigan between seasons.

He remained with the show for four seasons, until being let go during the seventh season when the show was canceled.

On February 5, 2012, Tony appeared on the Blind Auditions of the American reality talent show The Voice in its second season.

He performed Ray LaMontagne's "Trouble", and all four judges hit their red "I Want You" button for him.

He chose to join Adam Levine's team.

It was also in this show he reunited with fellow Mouseketeer Christina Aguilera.

He advanced to the semi-finals, which he performed "How You Like Me Now" by The Heavy and moved on to the final round.

For the final round on May 7, he performed Hugo's country-styled version of the Jay-Z song, "99 Problems".