Jonah Matranga

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Jonah Matranga

Jonah Sonz Matranga (born August 11, 1969 in Massachusetts ) is an American singer and guitarist. He was the founder of various rock bands , all of which are assigned to the genres Emo and Emocore .

Career

The Boston- born Matranga was the head of the following projects:

Matranga is continuing the solo project onelinedrawing under its own name.

His last band was called Gratitude and released their debut album on Atlantic Records in 2005 . But this project also proved to be not particularly long-lived: Their last show Gratitude played on November 23, 2005 in Minneapolis . After that, the band separated "in friendship".

Matranga was also a guest on Thursdays War All The Time , on the Deftones - Raritätensammlung B-Sides and Rarities , and Fort Minors The Rising Tied . He also has a guest appearance in the piece "The Instrumental" by rapper Lupe Fiasco on his album "Food & Liquor" (2006), which was produced by Linkin Park member Mike Shinoda .

On September 21, 2007, Jonah Matranga released his solo debut "And" with 11 new self-written songs on the Arctic Rodeo Recordings label. The album was recorded in the studio by label colleague Ian Love.

Matranga now lives in San Francisco . He has a daughter but is unmarried. According to his own information, he is a big fan of the bands U2 , Led Zeppelin and The Clash as well as the director Martin Scorsese .

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Where'd You Go (with Fort Minor & Holly Brook )
  DE 18th 04/28/2006 (12 weeks)
  AT 29 04/28/2006 (14 weeks)
  CH 62 06/18/2006 (4 weeks)
  US 4th 04/22/2006 (20 weeks)

solo

  • 1994: Jonah Sonz Matranga - Songs I Hope My Mom Will Like
  • 1998: Jonah Matranga - Jonah's One-line Drawing
  • 1999: onelinedrawing - Sketchy EP # 1
  • 2000: onelinedrawing - Sketchy EP # 2
  • 2000: onelinedrawing / Sense Field - Split
  • 2001: onelinedrawing / Rival Schools - Split
  • 2001: onelinedrawing - Always New Jan-Jun 2000
  • 2002: onelinedrawing - Always New Jul-Dec 2000
  • 2002: onelinedrawing - Visitor ( Jade Tree )
  • 2004: onelinedrawing - The Volunteers (Jade Tree)
  • 2005: Jonah Matranga - There's A Lot In Here (DVD)
  • 2005: Jonah Matranga - Sketchy EP # 3
  • 2006: Jonah Matranga / Frank Turner Split
  • 2006: Jonah Matranga - The Three Sketchys
  • 2007: Jonah Matranga - And

With tape

  • 1991: Far - Sweat A River, Live No Lies
  • 1992: Far - Listening Game (Rusty Nail Records)
  • 1994: Far - Quick (Our Own Records)
  • 1996: Far - Tin Cans With Strings To You ( Epic / Immortal)
  • 1997: Far - Soon EP (Epic / Immortal)
  • 1998: Far - Water & Solutions (Epic / Immortal)
  • 2001: New End Original - Thriller (Jade Tree)
  • 2005: Gratitude - Gratitude ( Atlantic )
  • 2010: Far - at night we live (Vagrant)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH US
personal data
SURNAME Matranga, Jonah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Matranga, Jonah Sonz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer and guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH 11th August 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Massachusetts