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Jann Klose

JANN KLOSE is an award-winning* pop singer-songwriter, who has released six albums and two EPs. Klose was raised in Kenya, South Africa, Germany and the United States. His single "Love You the Most" is part of the soundtrack for the movie "Married Young" (Amazon) and has been streamed over 2 million times. His newest single "Pilot Light" passed 1 million views on YouTube in just one month. Jann is an ambassador for Desmond Tutu's TutuDesk campaign and Brick by Brick Uganda. He is the singing voice of Tim Buckley in the movie "Greetings from Tim Buckley" (Universal). His songs have been heard on the Grammy® nominated "Healthy Food For Thought" compilation, charted in the Billboard Top 10 compilation "Action Moves People United" as well as MTV Cribs and movies "Dead Broke" (Warner Bros) featuring Paul Sorvino and “One Little Finger” alongside Quincy Jones, Siedah Garrett and Julian Lennon. He has performed as an actor and singer in touring companies of Broadway musicals, including "Jesus Christ Superstar," "Jekyll and Hyde," and "The Who's Tommy" as well as made for TV movies, voice overs and commercials.

His latest studio album IN TANDEM is out now via Gallo/Sheer in Africa and SONY/The Orchard elsewhere. The record features collaborations with Annie Haslam (Renaissance), Peter Gabriel, Karen Zoid, Tamara Dey, RJ Benjamin and a who’s who of South African artists and session players. Tracks from the album are charting worldwide and streaming numbers are in the hundreds of thousands. Jann tours year round in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia and has opened for and collaborated with a wide range of artists including Pat Benatar, John Oates of Hall and Oates, Suzanne Vega, The Yardbirds and founder Jim McCarty, Rosanne Cash, Paula Cole, Brett Dennen, Shekhinah, Carrie Newcomer, Alicia Madison, Ann Hampton Callaway and sister Liz Callaway, The Byrds’ Roger McGuinn, Gary Lucas, Jeffrey Gaines, Elliott Murphy, Rusted Root, Pete Seeger and Les Paul.

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Martin Guitars, L.R. Baggs Preamps, Shure Microphones, Kyser Capos


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Album Review

Jann Klose: Mosaic Fits Together Nicely

Read "Mosaic Fits Together Nicely" reviewed by Christine Connallon


The release of Mosaic is another noteworthy accomplishment for singer/songwriter Jann Klose, who is experiencing a year of important moments. As a featured vocalist, covering the singing parts of the iconic Tim Buckley in the acclaimed film “Greetings From Tim Buckley", the German-born musician, who also spent time growing up in Kenya and South Africa, is a busy man. Playing shows and sharing the stage with musicians like Jeffrey Gaines and Annie Haslam, Klose is on tour to spread the ...

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Gary Lucas & Jann Klose Release "Stereopticon" Online

Gary Lucas & Jann Klose Release "Stereopticon" Online

Source: Anne Leighton

Guitarist Gary Lucas and singer Jann Klose’s new album, Stereopticon is now out on Cosmic Trigger Records/The Orchard. This is a songwriter’s album, probably most at home with fans of AAA, indie, acoustic folk-pop/“urban Americana” music. Also active songwriters, Gary and Jann collaborated on songs over the past three years. Their friend Dan Beck, who has written with Dion DiMucci, the Iron City Houserockers, Felix Cavaliere, joined them as lyricist on 6 songs. In September 2014 and June 2015, Jann ...

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Jann Klose Releases New Album, Mosaic On iTunes, June 25

Jann Klose Releases New Album, Mosaic On iTunes, June 25

Source: Anne Leighton

Singer Songwriter Praised and Pranked from TIME'S Joel Stein, WFUV's Vin Scelsa and Boston Music Critic Jim Sullivan On the eve of the release of Jann Klose's album, MOSAIC on iTunes and Amazon (June 25), people are coming out of the woodwork with truly unique support for this multi-cultural singer-songwriter and his music. In his June 24th column, TIME MAGAZINE's Joel Stein writes of his paying intern for Joel's Charitybuzz auction (Eric Poses, Inventor of Loaded Questions) pretending to be ...

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Jann Klose: Two Major Announcements: Fundraising Event on 4/29 and Teaching 3/2/2012

Jann Klose: Two Major Announcements: Fundraising Event on 4/29 and Teaching 3/2/2012

Source: Anne Leighton

Jann Klose's fundraiser for his next album will be celebrating in the form of a fundraising concert at the Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2, 196 Allen Street, New York, New York, at 7:30 PM, on April 29, 2011.  Admission TBA, there will be very special guests. The venue phone is 212-477-4155. Unaffiliated with overpopulated crowd-funding sites, Jann is funding his new album on his own site, peoplerecordsmusic.com.  Fans can choose from over 40 exclusive items, including: download of new album: ...

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EM Come Home Tour ... Call Spielberg! Elliott Murphy--the Extra Musical Man. (Opening Act for Four Dates: Jann Klose)

EM Come Home Tour ... Call Spielberg! Elliott Murphy--the Extra Musical Man. (Opening Act for Four Dates: Jann Klose)

Source: Anne Leighton

He won't be alone, and he won't be afraid, but we want Elliott Murphy to come home. And he will this December. Elliott Murphy, the man who could have written a book but chose rock and roll instead is coming home to play. Elliott Murphy, who “remains the poet laureate of rock and roll," says Blurtonline's Rev. Keith Mondo Gordon, has more songs to be heard. The Rock Troubadour who found major airplay in the 1970s for his critically acclaimed ...

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Jann Klose to Tour Ireland and England

Jann Klose to Tour Ireland and England

Source: Anne Leighton

Pop singer-songwriter Jann Klose will be performing in Ireland and the UK this August.

He performs one show in Galway and two shows in Dublin on the 4th and 5th of August, and then heads over to London, Birmingham, Coventry, Leicester, Liverpool, and Cambridge.

Along the way he'll be performing on local radio and making new friends, and meeting up with “old" acquaintances. Jann toured the UK in the Midlands and London in July 2008.

Jann Klose's album Reverie is ...

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Jann Kloses Reverie Continues to Build in the U.S. and Abroad

Jann Kloses Reverie Continues to Build in the U.S. and Abroad

Source: Anne Leighton

New York City, May 2009: Jann Klose's album REVERIE is continuing to build momentum. The record has already become a critical favorite in regional America and is as the LA Weekly states becoming a minor hit, heard on over 100 radio stations worldwide, including Sirius XM Radio in the U.S., the BBC in the U.K. and most recently, Prambors Radio in Indonesia. George Graham just included REVERIE in his list of Best CDs of 2008 alongside Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris, ...

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Elliott Murphy & Jann Klose's Memory and Desire Tour, April 22-26

Elliott Murphy & Jann Klose's Memory and Desire Tour, April 22-26

Source: Anne Leighton

“Memory and Desire.” That’s what Rock Troubadour Elliott Murphy and multicultural pop singer-songwriter Jann Klose are calling their April 22-26th tour. Elliott borrowed the opening lines of T.S. Eliot’s poem, “The Waste Land” for this tour, which will include shows in Fairfield, CT, Asbury Park, NY, Fall River, MA, Hoboken, NJ and Amagansett, NY. Of course the conclusion is Elliott and Jann’s music encourages the audience to come out of the early spring doldrums that the poet T.S. Eliot writes ...

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Elliott Murphy on Tour, with Opener Jann Klose

Elliott Murphy on Tour, with Opener Jann Klose

Source: Anne Leighton

ELLIOTT MURPHY - the legendary Paris-based American rock troubadour will embark on his first U.S. tour in eight years. The tour kicks off December 2008 in the Northeast U.S. (New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, DC, Albany, Larchmont, Amagansett), and continues on to the West Coast, where he hasn’t played in 12 years) in January 2009 (San Francisco, Felton, Tehachapi, Los Angeles, San Diego, Long Beach). There will be more shows in the Spring. Elliott will be accompanied by his longtime ...

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Jann Klose Plays Mexicali Live

Jann Klose Plays Mexicali Live

Source: Anne Leighton

Jann Klose will be performing at Mexicali Live, 1409 Queen Anne Road, in Teaneck on September 4 at 8 PM. The venue phone is 201-833-0011. Admission is $10. Jann is, also, collaborating with Renaissance lead singer Annie Haslam for a special show at the Sellersville Theater, in Sellersville, PA on September 20. Recently he finished a 3-week tour of the UK and his native Germany, and will be touring over the eastern half of the United States this fall. In ...

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Jann Klose at Bethlehem Musikfest

Jann Klose at Bethlehem Musikfest

Source: Anne Leighton

JANN KLOSE AT BETHLEHEM MUSIKFEST, AUGUST 10 (Pop singer-songwriter also to perform Sept. 20 at Sellersville Theater with artist and classical rocker Annie Haslam) If you're attending the Bethlehem Musikfest on August 10, please stop by the Lyric Platz stage at 5 PM for Jann Klose's set. Jann, who has scheduled a full show at the Sellersville Theater this September, is a local favorite and was asked by the Philadelphia Songwriter's Project to be part of its program at Musikfest. ...

"Blessed with a melodious voice, he tends toward exuberance whatever the lyric. Klose was born in Germany and raised in Africa, and he's based in New York. His songs' immaculately tasteful orchestration sounds like Eric Matthews crossed with Nick Drake, best of all on the waltz "Doing Time." The arrangements on "Reverie" are by turns jazzy and classical, with frequent piano parts and a dedicated oboist and violinist in the band. His lyrics tend toward the sort of world-weary, lovesick ennui typical of poets in their mid-20s, and the lush instrumentation only swings, never rocks. Still, Klose overcomes the boredom and wins over the listener with his soaring voice, which may well be a staple of chamber pop for a long time to come." - THE WASHINGTON POST

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Vocals

Location

New York City

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Songwriting Workshops

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Songwriting Workshops, DIY-Touring and Career Building and Sustaining through Collaboration, Becoming American interviews with Immigrants

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