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Jono Grant (DJ)
Jono Grant (born 16 November 1979) is an English DJ, musician and vocalist, better known as a member of electronic music group Above & Beyond (alongside Tony McGuinness and Paavo Siljamäki)[1] and duo JODA (with Darren Tate). He is also a part owner of London-based electronic dance music labels Anjunabeats[2] and Anjunadeep. Personal lifeGrant attended the University of Westminster where he met fellow Above & Beyond member Paavo Siljamäki[3] and discovered a mutual interest in Electronic Music. Grant married his wife Giselle in Miami.[4] Grant's sister, Charlotte, died in early 2015 on her 42nd birthday.[5][6] The passing of Charlotte led the group to create the 'Little Something fund', designated to help perinatal mental health and encourage and empower women on their road to recovery.[7] Music careerAfter meeting Siljamäki, in 2000, they released their first single, "Volume One" under the name Anjunabeats,[8] which would also be the name of the label they founded.[9] Above & Beyond then teamed up with vocalist Justine Suissa and formed OceanLab in 2001,[10] which they scored their highest hit to-date, Satellite, in 2004.[11] In 2000, Grant met Darren Tate while on tour in Tokyo, and released the single Let the Shine in released in 2003.[12] Two decades later, in 2020 Above & Beyond teamed up with Tate to compose the score "The Last Glaciers" (released 2022), a year that also saw the return of the Jono Grant/Darren Tate duo collaborating as a song-writing partnership under the name of JODA.[13] Jono Grant is the brother of James Grant, who acts as Above & Beyond's artist manager, and who together founded the Anjunadeep label in 2006, this time focusing on Deep House.[14] With Above & Beyond, Grant went on to release 4 studio albums (Tri-State in 2006, Group Therapy in 2011, We Are All We Need in 2015 and Common Ground in 2018), 1 as OceanLab (Sirens of the Sea in 2008) as well as 2 acoustic albums (Acoustic and Acoustic II), 2 downtempo Flow State albums, 15 Anjunabeats compilations and a handful of other mixes.[15] Following a moderate success of Volume One, Liam McGuinness (Tony's brother) got in touch with Jono Grant who later, alongside Siljamäki, helped him to finish a remix of Chakra – Home, leading to what would be the birth of Above & Beyond.[16] Other than electronic synthesizers, Jono Grant plays piano and the Fender Rhodes[17] as well performing lead vocals on tracks like "1001 (Is It Love?)", "Diving Out of Love"[18] and the band's cover of New Order's "Blue Monday".[19] In 2022, Grant partnered with Darren Tate on a new indie project called JODA.[20] References
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