Daniel Jones (musician)
Daniel Jones (born 22 July 1973 in Southend -on-Sea, Essex, England ) is a musician, songwriter and music producer. He was known in particular as part of the world famous Australian pop duo Savage Garden, whose international hits were among the songs I Want You To the Moon and Back, Truly Madly Deeply, I Knew I Loved You and Crash and Burn. Since his time with Savage Garden Jones has his own production company Meridien music and recording studio founded Level 7 Studios, and made new works with various young Australian artists in attack.
Journey
Daniel Jones was born in 1973 in Southend -on-Sea, England, but his family emigrated before his tenth birthday to Australia. The Jones family moved to Brisbane, where Daniel grew up as the youngest of three sons. Already in his childhood, music was an important part in Daniel's life, which is also true for his two brothers, Oliver and Jonathan Lee Jones, who also possess a musical talent. His mother often called him Caniel after his name had been misspelled in an article in the school newspaper about a been shot by him score. The most common nickname of Daniel were next to Dan, Waggin and Jonesy.
Jones left after the 10th year, the Shailer Park State High School to pursue a musical career. Then he fell ill with reflux esophagitis, an inflammatory disease of the esophagus.
On 30 April 2000, he met at the Logie Awards on his future wife, Kathleen de Leon, who had been a member of the successful Australian teenager group Hi-5 at this time. After more than three years together, Kathleen organized a '70s Party at Daniel's 30th birthday, when he publicly confessed to her in front of hundreds of people his love and made her a marriage proposal in the GPO Bar in Brisbane.
On 9 October 2005, the two married in Avica Weddings and Resort in Gold Coast in Queensland. In honor of his bride and the ceremony Jones wrote the song Love Is Enough. The couple has a daughter who was born in July 2006.
Music career
Career start
At the age of just 18 years he was with his brother and some of his friends a member of a band called Red Edge, which, however, lacked a frontman. Daniel Jones then advertised in the local Brisbane music newspaper Time Off a display in which the band was looking for a suitable singer. One of those who signed up to this display was out, Darren Hayes, the final choice was. After some time, however, it was Hayes tired of other people's songs to sing, and he was determined to leave Red Edge. At this time, Daniel Jones already thought to put his own music, and so he came to the difficult decision, along with Darren Hayes from the band to get out. This marked the beginning of the band Savage Garden.
Savage Garden
→ Main article: Savage Garden
Darren Hayes, the other half of the duo, took over all the vocal tracks, while Jones was mainly responsible for the instrumental background. Still, his voice is in some demo songs, like eggplant Girl, and the countdown on the song To the Moon and Back hear. Hayes and Jones wrote and played only their own music and had 1998 Truly Madly Deeply and 2000 with I Knew I Loved You their biggest international hits. From the beginning, they traveled around the world to promote their first album and present their songs. The burden of travel and other problems began to charge Daniel getting stronger and he felt harassed by fans and the press, which he increasingly prepared more discomfort. So Darren decided to take the lion's share of public tasks that had to do with the promotion of the band. In return, Daniel led the samples with the background musicians by that accompanied Savage Garden on their tour, and took charge of the musical arrangements. However, it finally came in 2001 to the separation of the duo.
After Savage Garden
In 2001, Daniel began an Australian band called Aneiki support, which consisted of the musicians Jennifer Waite and Grant Wallis. She was the first band to the newly founded by Jones Music Label Meridien undertook music. Daniel knew Jennifer as one of the background singers that Savage Garden had accompanied during the Future of Earthly Delites Tour, the first tour for the album Savage Garden. Daniel helped to produce the first album of the band Words in Place of Objects and was co- writer for four of the songs contained on the album: Dearest, She Says, Saving Grace, Feel This Fool and Sugar Lust.
2002 Daniel worked together with another Australian duo Bachelor Girl was called. He was co- writer of the songs with the name Falling for the second album of the band Dysfunctional. 2004 Daniel supported the Australian pop-rock musician Julie Strickland and the Australian musical act The Wish ( with Peter Freebairn and Bill Kio ) in their respective debut albums. Since 2005 he has been working with other Australian singers together as Tori Horgan ( for her debut album ) and Paul Black. It turns out that the greatest interest of Jones is to discover young new talent and to market these on his own constructed Meridien music label.
In late 2005, Jones produced a series of EPs for the young label Music Pavilion, which is part of Quiksilver. He took to pieces with Sean Sennett, The Eight Colour, Moon Juice and Josh Boots.
In May 2006 it was announced that Daniel has acquired the legendary recording complex in the 301 Castlereagh Street, Sydney. This recording studio was in its long history formerly known EMI Group and should the new Level 7 Studios as well as the production company Meridien house music.
Today Daniel Jones continues to work on his own music label and lives in Sydney, Australia.