♪ It's my my grand finale ♪ ♪ As I go out with a smile from whichever mile ♪ ♪ Just as long as it's south of Miami ♪ My music's about having a good time, and it's about living your best life and having fun.

And in the end, you know, tomorrow doesn't belong to any of us yet, so you better have a good time today, and I wanna sing to you about that.

♪ To ever again break people ♪ My name's Tony Manfredi and I play music in the Keys, and I write songs about people that live in the Keys.

Sometimes it sounds like country, sometimes it sounds like rock and roll, sometimes it just sounds like my stuff.

A friend of mine told me it sounds like drinking music.

How's everybody doing tonight?

I love writing songs.

My mom says I don't write any sad songs and I told her it's because the songs I write are quite catchy and I don't want something sad being stuck in somebody's head.

So I try to write stuff that's happy, that people can relate to, or just about regular life, and that seems to be where I have the success in it because it's hard to write something about that I don't understand.

And I understand everybody's struggling and getting through their normal life and it's easy for me to write songs about that 'cause I live it.

I play two days a week here at Overseas, Wednesdays and Fridays, and I play over at Dockside on Sundays and I do a lot of private parties ♪ Seizing my day ♪ ♪ I'm just glad ♪ I always try to feel out how the crowd is and all the crowds are different and some of them are looking to hear something that they're very familiar with.

So you have to throw a lot of cover songs inside the mix and then you start hitting them with some originals that they've never heard before.

And if you can catch 'em where they're singing it by the second verse and you know you can stay on that, and that's how it happens most nights.

I started playing the guitar when I was 31 and picked it up pretty quick.

I think I wrote my first song about six months after that, and I moved down to the Keys three years ago, and we're trying to do this exclusively.

♪ From out Morada over a marathon ♪ ♪ From Key West Key ♪ ♪ You can't go wrong, just let the ocean ♪ It's a 10-song album.

Seven of the songs are about the Keys in Florida.

Three of the songs are about life in general.

One of the songs on it is the first song I wrote.

I figured if I was gonna write a first album, my first song should possibly be on that one.

♪ When they're lonely ♪ ♪ The Florida Keys ♪ It's the easiest thing in the world being Keysie, but yeah, it's kind of a song where we just kind of poke fun at what a great life you have down here.

And I do love living in the Keys.

I even wrote a song called I'm Gonna Die in The Keys and I mean every word of it 'cause I can't think of any place else I'd rather.

♪ I'm going to die in Keys, Lord ♪ ♪ I sure hope ♪ And I wrote a song called "The Florida Keys" which is the one everyone really likes to sing along with.

♪ Oh I believe we will never wanna leave ♪ ♪ The Florida Keys ♪