About Me
John Voltaire, born in a small town near, dortmund, also not a big city, always dreamt of being a musician- or a pilot. According to his bodyscale, the second option wasn't really one. The son of a pastor and a midwife started playing classical guitar when he turnt seven, the first electric one was his 10th birthday gift, by 12 he started jamming in a basement with his closest friend, a year later the both founded a band. After five years of gigs in clubs all around the local area and four demoproductions a team of writers and producers (biggest success: tokio hotel) got one of the demos and showed interest in jonathan as an artist and songwriter. So he moved to hamburg, got signed with univesal/island and produced an album. sad to say, their of vision how to produce, promote and break jonathan as an artist was completely different to what he wanted to be and stand for, so after three years of working together the team split. During this three years J. started producing a lot of demotapes of songs in german and english, hours of electronic music, beats and sound collages. He started to work with several songwriters, for commercials and artists from many different styles, producing electronic music for djs, playing shows all around germany. Together with a songwriter from Vienna he wrote the title theme of the european soccer mastership 2008, placed songs on top ten and platinum albums in germany and austria - he has had quite a year. Now he is nearly 23 years old, dedicating his life to songs, sounds, melodys, phrases - let's see where this ends...
