Bio

Jonas started playing music at an early age. Initially banging on pots and pans – but quickly moving on to guitar, bass, drums and a bit of piano. The greatest revelation to Jonas though, was when he discovered Stevie Wonder’s album ”Songs In The Key Of Life” in his fathers record shelves. Stevie landed on the recordplayer and created a big interest in singing. An interest which followed Jonas with huge succes ever since. After having played in numerous bands during his teenage years, Jonas formed the soul band Jonz together with 4 other talented musicians. After only 3 gigs, the band got signed to a worldwide deal with Sony Music by A&R Manager Poul Martin Bunde. This lead to a tight working relationship with manager Keith Harris (Stevie Wonder, Omar, Lynden David Hall) and producer Pete Smith (Randy Crawford, Joe Cocker, Sting) making the criticly acclaimed debut album ” Where It’s At”. The single ”Sleeping” was #1 on the national danish airplay chart, and made waves in various parts of the world. Even Stevie Wonder was caught humming one of Jonas’ songs, and was quoted saying ”when can I get my copy of the album?” After a couple of years Jonas decided to part ways with Jonz, and has since then been working as a solo artist. Besides that, he has been involved in countless projects on the side with other musicians, producers and songwriters all over the world. A.o. writing songs with Lynden David Hall (RIP); fronting a 17 piece soul collective entitled Nu Soul Connexion with his friend and partner in music Tarek Sidki; working as vocal-producer on many danish albums and doing a hiphop/soul collaboration album with rapper Kuku Agami and producer Daniel Fridell. The last years Jonas has also been touring Europe extensively as backingsinger and support act with the multi ethnical hip hop group Outlandish. On the tour Jonas recieved a hugely positive response everywhere, which surely added to the steadily growing activity on Jonas’ websites, where new fans jumped in to check out snippets from the “Sweet Dreams Guaranteed” album. Jonas debut album has been created with songwriters, musicians and producers from Copenhagen, New York, Milwaukee and London. Jonas spent time in the studio in USA with George Nash Jr and Demonté Posey, who are the main people behind the american soul hero Eric Benét. The time was used writing, recording and producing, which a.o. gave birth to the song ”Things Gotta Change” that features basslegend Pino Palladino and brass innovator Roy Hargrove. Both Pino and Roy are known for putting their magic touches to albums by the biggest icons in the neo-soul genre, so this surely was a dream com true to Jonas. The music is a modern interpretation of soul. Inspiration comes mainly from the good old soulclassics, but also draws lines to modern r&b, jazz and hip hop. What shines through is the way Jonas succeeds in developing a sound that is completely his own. A warm gentle expressive voice and sound, combined with thoughtful, humerous and poetic lyrics, all adds up to a mixture that is elegantly sexy and simply irressistable. ”Sweet Dreams Guaranteed” is an album that creeps under your skin and keeps growing and growing. The album is available worldwide thru www.cdbaby.com and in all iTunes stores. For more information go to: www.myspace.com/jonasoul www.jonasmusic.dk www.rickysmoove.com