Marco Restrepo

Life and career Marco Restrepo was born in Marietta, Georgia, and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. He grew up listening to Jackie Wilson, other Motown acts and commercial radio. During high school he adopted the name A.Tone Da Priest and began rapping with friend Sean Spellz in a group called 1Up. He began self-producing material in 2006 and eventually put out his first mixtape online titled Still A Rapper Pt. 1.

While a senior at Chamblee Charter High School in 2007, a recommendation from hip hop production team J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, landed him an internship at a premier Atlanta recording studio. There he learned how to record and engineer and began to take his craft more seriously. The Address EP (2011), Stand By My Words (2011), The Fi King (2012), The Fi King and October Sky would both prove to be guitar heavy albums.

In late 2014/early 2015, Restrepo released two albums, 1989 (2014) and Lonely Hearts Club (2015). He took on the task of playing all of the instruments featured on the projects. He was credited with guitar, bass, drums, keyboards and percussion. Although general consensus of his new material was positive and even at times boastful of his genius and originality, he was criticized for his "garage band sound" which some critics felt held him back from his full potential. In the summer of 2015, he announced that two LP's titled Promised Land and Change were in the works. to his newer instrument based material which reviewers describe as "new age psychedelic rock". He is the nephew of The Detroit Cobras long tenured guitarist Mary Ramirez.

Discography A.Tone Da Priest The Address EP (2011) Stand By My Words (2011) The Fi King (2012) October Sky (2012) Come Fly With Me (2013) Marco Restrepo 1989 (2014) Lonely Hearts Club (2015)