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, Ontario and has lived in

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and London, UK.

Biography

Early life

Seet began singing in the church choir at St. Peter's Anglican Church in Cobourg, Ontario at age 4 and started piano lessons at 5. At 13 years old, he played the carillon at St. Peter's for several years. When he was 15, he was recruited as the church organist and choir director at St. George's Church in Grafton and Trinity Anglican Church Colborne, Ontario for 3 years before leaving for university. During this period, he played viola in the Northumberland Symphony Orchestra and was the president of his high school band in Cobourg. Seet briefly attended Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario but then transferred to Cobourg District Collegiate Institute East where his father was teaching. He was highly involved in musical productions and programs at both schools. He was accepted to several universities for music performance and composition programs but chose to study

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at the University of Waterloo whereupon he taught himself guitar and began songwriting. Upon graduating, Seet continued writing and recording songs while still working in various aspects of technology and performing in other Toronto bands.

Music career

He recorded and released ''

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'' independently in 2000 and ''

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'' on February 14, 2003 with Aporia Records/ MapleNationwide. ''

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'' was produced in 2007 but was only made available on

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and other digital audio formats in early 2008. '' The End of the Beginning EP'', released in 2009, was similarly only made available digitally. The material from "Thanks To Science, We've Got Love" was largely derived from compositions pitched for television and film with Offensive Tie Publishing in

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. Most of the work on "The End of the Beginning" was written and recorded in Oxford. Seet was one of the founders and organizers of Toronto's annual

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Tribute (2000–2003), and produces, records and performs for other artists and also composes music for film and television and advertising. His song, Precious Things, was used in the

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of the Canadian television police drama, '' Flashpoint''.

Style

His writing often employs arching melodies over top sometimes uncommonly used chords, voicing and song structure. His compositional style has changed over the course of his recordings but has maintained a signature production style. Earlier work (

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) was centered around conventional rock and pop instrumentation. More recent recordings include marrying symphonic elements with electronic/synth and rock instruments, as well as occasionally more simple arrangements with guitar or

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and pop references.

Discography

Releases

* ''

'' (2000, Independent) * ''

'' (2003, Aporia Records/MapleNationwide) * ''

'' (2008, Independent) * ''Precious Things'' ingle(2008, Independent) * '' The End of the Beginning EP'' (2009, Independent)

Contributions

* Soundtrack to the Short Film ''

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'' (2003,

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) * '' Separate'' – Brilliantfish (2003, Independent) * '' Famous Secrets'' – Rachel Smith (musician) (2007, Independent) * '' I Want To Grow Old in China'' – Theme (2008, Smoke Signals Projects) * '' Flashpoint'' – Episode 102 End Montage (2008, Pink Sky Entertainment/ Avamar Entertainment) * ''

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'' – Brilliantfish (2010, Independent) * ''

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'' – Brilliantfish (2010, Independent) * '' Stay'' – Brilliantfish (2010, Independent) * '' Redux'' – Brilliantfish (2010, Independent) * '' Stay'' – Brilliantfish (2012, Independent) * '' Naked Splendor'' – Greenway Blvd (2013, Independent) * '' brilliantfish has left the building'' – Brilliantfish (2013, Independent) * '' everybody's fine'' – Brilliantfish (2014, Independent) as Jeanbon Ham

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of media accounts. {{DEFAULTSORT:Seet, Jonathan 1969 births Living people Canadian expatriates in the United Kingdom Canadian folk singer-songwriters Canadian male singer-songwriters Canadian singer-songwriters Naturalized citizens of Canada Singaporean emigrants to Canada Singaporean people of Chinese descent Singaporean people of Irish descent University of Waterloo alumni