Tony Cummings

British music journalist. His journalistic career started in 1963 when he started a black music fanzine originally called Soul, then Soul Music Monthly and finally Shout. By 1971 he was writing occasionally for Record Mirror and then in 1973 joined Black Music magazine as Staff Writer, eventually becoming Editor. He stopped writing for the magazine in 1976 and converted to Christianity in 1980. Within a year he began to write for the Christian magazine Buzz who soon offered him the position of assistant editorship. He later became the editor of Christian music magazine Cross Rhythms.