Tony Cadena

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Tony Cadena, stage name Tony Reflex, is an accomplished Punk Rock Singer\Songwriter and Poet.

Tony's musical career started with a band that Tony started in junior high school in his garage which he played Tupperware and pots and pans, he also wrote the lyrics, it comes as no surprise that the band split up soon after. In 1979, Tony Formed The Adolescents with Steve Soto while they talked at the end of an Agent Orange gig. He released the Classic Adolescents, with the newly formed band, yet they broke up after the 1981 tour. He then moved on to bands called the Abandoned and God Riots 73 and then found himself playing in the Adolescents again in 1986 as Tony Montana when the band reformed. After leaving the Adolescents in 1987; Tony joined the Flower Leperds. After a reunion in 1989 Tony went on to start another band in the Adolescents tradition called ADZ, which he is still in. Tony recently regrouped with the original band members for a 20 year reunion of the self-titled album. They continue to tour and released an album in 2005 titled "OC Confidential". Aside from music Tony has a career in teaching, and for a period taught special education. In his spare time Tony writes poetry that has been described as being "hilarious or heartbreaking"; his last poetry reading was at the Parlour Club in Santa Monica on April 21, 2002.