Artist

Johnny Jewel

American musician and score composer

Houston, United States · b. 1974

Johnny Jewel is a musician from Houston, United States, active since 1974. Their discography on Gatefold includes 9 records. They also recorded with Chromatics, Desire, Symmetry and Glass Candy.

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1974

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5 projects · 68 records in Gatefold collections

Biography

American record producer, composer and visual artist born on 1974-05-31 in Houston, Texas, but started out in Portland, Oregon (USA). He is a multi-instrumentalist who is known for using all-analog equipment. He has been recording and releasing records since the mid-1990s. Jewel owns and operates his own record label called. He is a member of multiple bands on the label, including Glass Candy (along with vocalist Ida No), Chromatics (along with Ruth Radelet, Adam Miller (opens in a new tab), and Nat Walker (opens in a new tab)), Desire (opens in a new tab) (with Megan Louise and Nat Walker (opens in a new tab)), and Symmetry (opens in a new tab) (with Nat Walker (opens in a new tab)). As a composer, Jewel is widely known for his contribution to the film Drive (2011), as well as scoring the A&E crime drama series Those Who Kill (2014) and actor Ryan Gosling's 2015 directorial debut, Lost River. Jewel has been sampled by Schoolboy Q, Jarvis Cocker, and Kid Cudi.