My Journey through Deep Underground Garage House music began in 1992, I dated a House Music scene Dancer named "Peace aka Ronald Moore". He kept asking me to join him at a local club called "Zanzibar" one night I decided to go check it out....While holding my hand with a gentle stare he escorted me through the crowd with smoke emerging from the floor...........Basically I was turned out ya'll....it was too much for my brain! with the music bassline, hooks, the energy, the mirrors but more importantly the passion...As I watched him work his body out....with his flips and foot work....I remember dancing in this circle the crowd formed...I felt as if I was experiencing a spiritual out of body experience....here we were a bunch of strangers smiling, laughing and hugging each other just because of this entity of energy coming from these records being played by the DJ which made us Feel Alive!......"Finally" by CeCe Peniston began to play....my heart beat faster as he bent down with sweat flowing down his cocoa toned well formed chest ....As his warm erotic fingertip touched my ear, I felt a tingle with slight vibration followed by a breeze of his Calvin Klein "Obsession" cologne. As his Dreadlocks swung across my cheeks he whispered, "Velva, I told you...it's like being Home with good music and friends , Let go baby....I Love you. That night...."Tears of Velva" was born.
"Back to the Raw" -Tears of Velva (The Artist)

DEDICATED TO "PEACE" AKA RONALD MOORE

DJ Tony Humphries

Legendary Garage House Residency- Club Zanzibar (Newark, New Jersey) 1982, Ministry of Sound (London, UK) 1990's. DJ Tony Humphries has Produced many DJ mixes and Compilations for Major Labels such as Ministry of Sound Records, Strictly Rhythm Records, Nervous Records and Tony Records just to name a few to date. 'But to me he is so incredibly humble & sweet, I Believe he leaves no Artist behind by reaching out time to time, shedding positivity upon Lost Underground Children like myself .

Through his Innovative Musical Genius Residency at Club Zanzibar...

We'll, you gave ....'Oh Lord (tears falling) you gave us Hope & Love . Mr. Tony Humphries you gave us a Home. This is what makes him so unmistakably rare Amongst the House Music Greats. -Tears of Velva

Left-Pictiured Velva Johnson (1992) Patterson, New Jersey hours before meeting "Peace" for their First Date at Club Zanzibar.