Christopher Anthony Jones (born 20 April 1985) is a British singer and songwriter best known for featuring the vocals and lyrics on "

Going Wrong ''Going Wrong'' is a psychological thriller by English crime writer Ruth Rendell. The novel was published in 1990 by Hutchinson in the UK and Mysterious Press in the US. Synopsis When he was a young man, Guy Curran led a local street gang an ...

" (2008), written and produced by Dutch trance DJ and producer

Armin van Buuren Armin Jozef Jacobus Daniël van Buuren ( , ; born 25 December 1976) is a Dutch DJ and record producer from Leiden, South Holland. Since 2001, he has hosted ''A State of Trance'' (ASOT), a weekly radio show, which is broadcast to nearly 40&nbs ...

plus German trance DJ and producer

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. This track was present in the Dutch charts for nine successive weeks and has been viewed more than 19,000,000 times on

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Career

Jones has a love and passion for music that has developed from childhood, songwriting, singing and performing from a young age. When he was about 13/14, he started acting in plays at school. This culminated in an appearance in British

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soap ''

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''. Jones appeared in one episode as a young bully called Toadface. Coming from a rock background, Jones decided upon acoustic rock as his platform, and began working with a number of talented and well respected producers. Through these projects, Jones started to develop his writing skills, began creating songs, and matured quickly as a solo artist.

The Benz

When he was 17, he formed a band with school friends. They started playing in their bedrooms or any other spaces they could find. After six months or so they thought they were ready for their first gig. In the meantime, Jones was coached by Stevie Lange. They gradually got better and got booked all over the UK. But as with most things situations and circumstances change and they called it a day in 2006.

Dance music

put Jones into

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. He contacted him on MySpace because he was intrigued by his voice, and after a few conversations back and forth, the foundations of the hit "

" was born. Jones had always been into rock but since he has been working with Armin and Roger, He has learned to love the trance scene. After the track was finished, "Going Wrong" was scheduled to be released on Rogers' ''Songbook'', yet this was just the beginning of their new friendship and working relationship.

, was presented with the track by Roger, Armin had his own plans in mind for this vocalist, and was set to appear on Armin's album ''

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'' on

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. On 19 April 2008, Jones and Shah performed "Going Wrong" live with Armin at Armin only in Utrecht, the Netherlands, in front of 20,000 fans. This also began the "Imagine" tour for Jones, as he travelled the world with Armin and continued to perform live in Melbourne, Sydney, Romania, Poland, Belgium and the Americas.

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engaged Jones to duet on their single "

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Neverlanded

After months on the ''

'' world tour, Jones and the guitarist Eller van Buuren (brother of Armin) found a shared passion and winning connection for songwriting and performing. They formed the rock band, Neverlanded, whose debut EP called ''On Air'' was released on 1 October 2012. Their track "Bottle for a Friend" was entered in September 2012 for the Marshall Ultimate Band Contest competition.

Discography

Singles

''Sources:''

2008

" with

and

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, on

2009

*"To the Sky" with Roger Shah, on Armada Music *"

" with

, on

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2010

*"Become One" with Ali Wilson, on in Charge Records

2011

*"Summer Days" and "Obsession" with Roger Shah, in the "openminded!?" album, on Armada Music

2012

*"Starting Right Now" with Cerf, Mitiska &

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, on S107 Recordings (Armada Music) *"Memory of a Dream" with Tenishia, on Armada Music *"Vital Signs" with Roy Malakian, on in Trance We Trust (the Eller van Buuren's acoustic version of this song is at the top of the music charts of radioone.fm) *"When You Are Gone" with Arjonas and Morttagua, on Tiger Records *"Reason" with Chris Schweizer, on Soundpiercing (Armada Music)

2013

*"Scream" feat. Kairo Kingdom on Big Fish Recordings *"Running Out of Time" with

Aly & Fila Aly & Fila are an Egyptian trance music duo made up of Aly El Sayed Amr Fathalah (Aly) and Fadi Wassef Naguib (Fila). They host an Internet radio show called Future Sound of Egypt, and are the founders of the label of the same name. The duo has ...

, on Future Sound of Egypt

2014

*"Share This Night" with

Sied van Riel Sied van Riel () is a Dutch trance music DJ and producer originally from Rotterdam but currently residing in Spijkenisse, Netherlands. He came into the scene in the year of 2006 with the production of his first track, "Fearless" and the followin ...

Black Hole Recordings Black Hole Recordings is a Dutch record label founded by Tijs Verwest (Tiësto) and Arny Bink in 1997. In August 2009, Tiësto decided to leave Black Hole Recordings, setting up the record label Musical Freedom in association with PIAS Entertai ...

*"So Lonely" with DJ Feel & Vadim Spark on Amsterdam Trance Records *" Young Again" with

Hardwell Robbert van de Corput (; born January 7, 1988), known professionally as Hardwell, is a Dutch DJ and music producer from Breda. He was voted the world's number one DJ by ''DJ Mag'' in 2013 and again in 2014. In 2022, he was ranked at number 43 i ...

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2015

*"Make it Ours" with

Ferry Corsten Ferry Corsten (; born 4 December 1973) is a Dutch disc jockey, record producer and remixer from Rotterdam. He is well known for producing many pioneering trance tracks during the 1990s–2000s under his numerous aliases, including System F, Moon ...

Flashover Recordings Flashover Recordings is a trance music record label founded by Dutch trance producer and DJ Ferry Corsten in 2005. The label was first formed releasing only trance music which included its sub-labels Levare Recordings and Flashover Recordings ...

*"Rising Sun" with Manse on Revealed Recordings *"Whole Again" with DJ Euan Blue on Caley Recordings

EPs

*2012: Neverlanded's debut EP ''On Air''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Chris 1985 births Living people British male singer-songwriters 21st-century British singers 21st-century British male singers