Jono Grant is an English DJ and musician, better known as a member of

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group Above & Beyond (alongside Tony McGuinness and Paavo Siljamäki) and duo JODA (with Darren Tate). He is also a part owner of London-based electronic dance music labels

Anjunabeats Anjunabeats is a British record label started by producers Jonathan "Jono" Grant and Paavo Siljamäki of Above & Beyond in 2000. Initially exclusively a trance music label, around 2011 Anjunabeats started releasing primarily trance-edged hou ...

and Anjunadeep.

Personal life

Jono attended the

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where he met fellow Above & Beyond member Paavo Siljamäki and discovered a mutual interest in Electronic Music. Jono married his wife Giselle in

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. Jono's sister, Charlotte, passed away in early

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on her 42nd birthday. The passing of Charlotte led the group to create the 'Little Something fund', designated to help perinatal mental health and encourage and empower women on their road to recovery.

Music career

After meeting Siljamäki, in 2000, they released their first single, Volume One under the name Anjunabeats, as well, founded a label of the same name. Above & Beyond then teamed up with vocalist Justine Suissa and formed OceanLab in 2001, which they scored their highest hit to-date, Satellite, in 2004. In 2000, Jono Grant met Darren Tate while on tour in Tokyo, and released the single Let the Shine In released in 2003. Two decades later, in 2020 Above & Beyond teamed up with Tate to compose the score The Last Glaciers (released 2022), a year that also saw the return of the Jono Grant/Darren Tate duo collaborating as a song-writing partnership under the name of JODA. Jono is the brother of James Grant, who acts as Above & Beyond’s artist manager, and who together founded the Anjunadeep label in 2006, this time focusing on Deep House. As Above & Beyond, Jono Grant went on to release 4 studio albums ( Tri-State in 2006,

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in 2011,

We Are All We Need ''We Are All We Need'' is the third studio album by British progressive trance group Above & Beyond. It was released on 16 January 2015 by Anjunabeats. The album is their first studio album to feature new material since ''Group Therapy'' (2011). ...

in 2015 and Common Ground in 2018), 1 as OceanLab (

Sirens of the Sea ''Sirens of the Sea'' is the debut album by the British vocal trance group Above & Beyond presents OceanLab, released on 21 July 2008 through Anjunabeats. On 8 June 2009 a remix edition of the album was released, ''Sirens of the Sea Remixed ...

in 2008) as well as 2 Acoustic albums ( Acoustic and

Acoustic II ''Acoustic II'' is the second acoustic compilation album by British progressive trance group Above & Beyond, released on 3 June 2016 through Anjunabeats Anjunabeats is a British record label started by producers Jonathan "Jono" Grant an ...

), 2 Downtempo Flow State albums, 15 Anjunabeats compilations and a handful of other mixes. Following a moderate success of Volume One, Liam McGuinness (Tony's brother) got in touch with Jono Grant who later, alongside Siljamäki, helped him to finish a remix of Chakra – Home, leading to what would be the birth of Above & Beyond. Other than electronic synthesizers, Jono Grant plays piano and the Fender Rhodes as well performing lead vocals on tracks like 1001 (Is It Love?), Diving Out of Love and the band's cover of New Order – Blue Monday. In 2022, Jono partnered with Darren Tate on a new indie project called JODA.

References

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