Career
Tony O'Connor's first album "Journey" was released in 1987, classified as "Creative Relaxation Music". O'Connor had previously worked with psychologists and masseurs to create music that was specifically produced to calm and relax the listener. As a result of the album's medicinal qualities, to relieve stress, depression, sleeplessness, and muscle tension, as well as to slow the heart and breathe rate of listeners and lower blood pressure, "Journey" became sought after by professional therapists and natural healthcare specialists.
As demand for O'Connor's album grew, Tony and his wife Jacqui set up their own record label; Studio Horizon. This enabled O'Connor's music to be sold to a much wider audience then before, which resulted a large jump in album sales. By 1991, O'Connor had composed and produced "Mariner", which achieved Gold status within a few weeks of sale. "Mariner" has sold over 1.5 million copies to date.
From 1992 - 1997, O'Connor collaborated with Australian wildlife photographer Steve Parish. The two artists combined their passions and their professions to make a range of CD's set to particular nature themes, resulting in albums such as Uluru, Kakadu, Rainforest Magic, Wilderness and Windjana - Spirit of the Kimberly. These albums were enormously popular and sold in numbers unprecedented by any Australian Unsigned artist at the time; each title reaching Double Platinum sales, with two albums reaching Triple Platinum sales and one album selling more than half a million copies.
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