Toni Montano was born Velibor Miljković in Belgrade in 1962.
Miljković started his career as a singer in the punk rock band Radost Evrope, which was formed in 1979. A large number of musicians passed through the band, including Dimet Todorov, who later became a member of Partibrejkers and Slobodan Loka Nešković, who later became a member of the Urbana Guerilla band.
The band had rehearsals and mostly performed in the Belgrade Student Cultural Center, and they mostly performed songs by the punk rock group Ramons, but also their own. The band stopped working in 1985, and part of the material was on Miljković's debut album, which began a solo career after the band's disbandment. He won three awards at the MESAM festival, reports Nova.rs.
After the breakup of the band Radost Evrope, Miljković gave himself the nickname Tony Montana, after the main actor from the cult movie "Scar Face". He released his first album under the name "Toni Montano" in 1986, and the album was produced by Borut Cinch, a member of the band Bulldozer. The album included the song "Vreme je da skinem mrak", which was a cover of the Sex Pistols song "Friggin' in the Riggin", as well as Dragan Stojnić's "Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde", and his take on the song "Do You Wanna Dance?" ” by Bobby Freeman.The next album "Talični Tom je mrvat" was released a year later, and in 1988 the live album "Mi smo iz Belgrade" was released.
The album "Lovac na novac" was published in 1991 and included a cover of the song "Zvižduk u osam" by Đorđe Marjanović.
He released his last studio album "Happy Birthday" in 1999, and the single "I won't be a scumbag" in 2021.
