The Band.
Chatting backstage at a mutual gig seems like the only appropriate way for vocalist Jenny Bates and Grammy Award winner Tony Lake to have met…
Jenny, a Broadway publicist, and Tony, an audio engineer, met while working on the national tour of The Last Ship starring Sting. Then that proverbial spark hit them while on their first “date” at a rock venue in San Francisco.
Then a pandemic hit the U.S. and they quarantined themselves in Brooklyn to make some music together.
Three years later, they are still making music, still together, but a lot less… quarantined.
Tony Lake.
Tony Lake grew up in Detroit raised on the music of Motown, Midwest pop-rock, and Detroit R & B. He fell in love with music at an early age and cemented his love by learning guitar. As his appetite for music grew he became enamored with the recording and mixing side of music, learning the intricacies of the process, and adding this technical aptitude to his music appreciation.
These skills have seen him at the console of recording studios working with artists as diverse as Sting, Shaggy, Lady Gaga, Far East Movement, Jukebox The Ghost, Charlie XCX, and Mumford and Sons, as well as touring across the world with Sting and Shaggy, and with acts supporting Katy Perry, the Black Eyed Peas, and LMFAO.
Tony won a Grammy Award in 2019 for best Reggae Album with Shaggy and Sting's "44/876."
He is also part of the rock band, Detroit Dreamers, with Martin Kierszenbaum. Their eponymous EP debuted in May 2020.
Tony's instrumental project, Danser Dans La Mer’s, 7-song collection entitled “Constellations I” debuted in December 2020.
Tony is represented by Cherrytree Management.
Jenny Bates.
Along with fronting BECKERTON, Jenny Bates is the live performance lead singer for the synthpop group Diamond Field. Their cover track of New Order’s “Temptation” was released in July 2023 and the band toured with The Motion Epic and appear with synthwave favorites, Bunny X, in August 2023.
Off stage, she is a Broadway tour publicist and marketing director and has represented some of the most well-known Broadway musicals in the world including Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, Jersey Boys, MJ, The Last Ship starring Sting, Fun Home, The Light in the Piazza and many more.
Jenny is also the behind-the-camera eye of JenEpiphany Photography, taking performance and publicity photos for local NYC bands, free for their personal and professional uses to help pay it forward. She hails from San Diego but now proudly resides in New York City.