Jonathan Charles Toogood (born in

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, New Zealand, on 9 August 1971) is the frontman (lead vocals and guitar) of the New Zealand rock band

Shihad Shihad are a rock band formed in Wellington, New Zealand in 1988. The band consists of founders Tom Larkin (drums, backing vocals, samplers), Phil Knight (lead guitar, synthesiser, backing vocals) and Jon Toogood (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), ...

. He formed the band in 1988 with fellow Wellingtonian Tom Larkin. Toogood and Larkin met as teenage fans of

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and

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Solo work

In 2009 Toogood revealed he had been travelling around New Zealand to collaborate with other New Zealand artists for a project that is "extra-curricular" to Shihad's music. Confirmed collaborators included

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, Ruban and Kody Neilson from

the Mint Chicks The Mint Chicks were a New Zealand noise rock/art punk group (the band began to refer to their style of music as "troublegum" and have been referred to as anything from neo-punk to schizo-pop to the only half-serious genre definition of shit-gaz ...

, Julia Deans from

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fame and

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. "The Adults" was released as a full-length album in New Zealand in June 2011. Toogood subsequently toured NZ and Australia under this banner, joined onstage by Deans and Carter. In 2020 Toogood was inducted into Massey University's College of Creative Arts' hall of fame.

Personal life

Toogood is not related to the broadcasting icon

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, as his parents migrated from England to New Zealand in the 1950s. Toogood was a keen

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player in high school, and at one stage captained the Wellington secondary schools' representative cricket team. As of April 2005, Toogood was married to Ronise Paul, with whom he had a stepdaughter named Anaya. Toogood married Dana Salih, who is a Sudanese Muslim, in

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in 2014. Toogood had converted to Islam prior to the wedding.

Awards

Aotearoa Music Awards

The

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(previously known as ''New Zealand Music Awards'' (NZMA)) are an annual awards night celebrating excellence in

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and have been presented annually since 1965. ! , - , 1992 , , Jon Toogood - Shihad , , Most Promising Male , , , , rowspan="8", , - , 1994 , , Jon Toogood - Shihad , , Male Vocalist of the Year, , , - , 1996 , , Jon Toogood - Shihad , , Male Vocalist of the Year, , , - , rowspan="2", 1997 , , Karl Kippenberger & Jon Toogood for ''Shihad'' , , Album Cover of the Year , , , - , Jon Toogood - Shihad , , Male Vocalist of the Year, , , - , 1998 , , Jon Toogood - Shihad , , Male Vocalist of the Year, , , - , 2000 , , Jon Toogood - Shihad , , Male Vocalist of the Year, , , - , 2001 , , Jon Toogood - Shihad , , Male Vocalist of the Year, , , - , 2010 , , Jon Toogood (as part of Shihad) , ,

New Zealand Music Hall of Fame The New Zealand Music Hall of Fame , Te Whare Taonga Puoro o Aotearoa is a figurative hall of fame dedicated to noteworthy New Zealand musicians. The hall was created in 2007 by Recorded Music NZ (then known as the Recording Industry Associati ...

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References

External links

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Shihad's Official SiteThe Adults Official Site
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