you pretty thing profile picture

you pretty thing

About Me

Check out our EPK:
Please be patient for the English version.It's work in progress
JAYNEY KLIMEK was born in Melbourne; Australia, and moved to Berlin in 1984. Having studied acting and classical singing in Australia, Jayney; together with her two brothers, was a founding member of the group THE OTHER ONES, who had two international, chart-topping albums (the singles HOLIDAY and WE ARE WHAT WE ARE made the top ten world-wide). Jayney moved on to become solo singer for Tony banks (GENESIS) and worked as a session singer for TANGERINE DREAM (the new CD Inferno, original text by Dante), PAUL VAN DYK, PALE 3, TERRANOVA (all songs on the new album Digital Tenderness), ALPHAVILLE, SIMON BONNEY and ANITA LANE, among many other name artists.
Guitarist BLACKY SCHWARZ RUSZCZYNSKI was born in Berlin and studied classical guitar. After working as a music tutor, he worked with the GRIPS THEATRE band and recorded material for UKW (Sommersprossen, Ich Will, Hey Matrose) and two albums with The Other Ones. As session guitarist, he worked for many well known acts such as Alphaville, Klaus Schulze, Petshop Boys and Boy George, as well as producers such as Trevor Horn, Steve Lipson and Jack White. As a producer himself, he has worked on projects by Marian Gold (Alphaville), Fares (3P) and Toowaboo (Gun Records).
JAYNEY and BLACKY, from two different continents, came together in Berlin, and since then have been developing their art and working all over the world. In 2003 they founded the duo You Pretty Thing and since then have been composing and producing in Blackys Biebest Studio.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 27/06/2006
Band Website: www.youprettythingmusic.com
Band Members: Jayney Klimek - vocals - Andreas Schwarz-Ruszczynski - guitars/computer - Marcellus Puhlemann - Drums - Bridie Rack - Kathe Siewert - Sarah Henry - backing vocals
Influences: Missy Elliot - Lisa Dabello - Goldfrapp - Chemical Brothers - Brian Eno - Moby - Quentin Tarantino Sound tracks - Porteshead - Blondie - Everlast - Beck - Red hot chilli peppers - David Bowie - Experiences and many more
Sounds Like: You Pretty Thing:
Record Label: SPV Distribution & KontorNewMedia-online
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Slideshow


Posted by on Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:37:00 GMT

Record release party

You Pretty Thing will be celebrating our record release party on the 07.03.08 together with Dr Motte, Dj Lunnetic and Dj Who. so prepare yourself for a serious party.Our special guests include the ori...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:54:00 GMT