1968 Born in Trollhättan, Sweden on October 11. ”La Route du Rock” in St Malo France, Jay-Jay meets Spielberg, Beck and some surviving Warhol superstars 1975 Starts to play the piano. up with Cocteau Twins Robin Guthrie, a friendship are seen in the audience. 1978 Sings and plays bass in his punk rock band ”Nej and a never ending musical collaboration begins. 2004 Marries Laura Delicata on February 28. A best Tack” on his first ever concert at the ”Non Smoking 1999 Jay-Jay moves to Strasbourg France, but travels of called ”Prologue” is released in the US to introduce Generation” festival. Learns to play the clarinet and back and forth to Stockholm, to work on the third the early material to the American market. This is the saxophone, joins a local big band. album ”Poison”. last of the 6 albums released on BMG Records. Jay-Jay 1984 Moves to Jönköping, starts music college. Sees 2000 After living one year in France Jay-Jay moves now signs a deal with EMI Records for 3 albums. Chet Baker playing live, ”a concert that changed my back to Sweden, buys a flat in the Stockholm suburb 2005 The album ”Rush” is released on September 14. life”, Jay-Jay has said in many interviews. ”At that Sundbyberg, just a few blocks away from the studio Some songs are remixed into dance tracks, this time by moment I realized what I wanted to do when I grow where his first songs was recorded 5 years earlier. the French house music producer JP Ensuque. up.” ”Poison”, the third, and most successful, album of 2006 Collaborates with the Swedish duo The Knife on 1989 Joins the army for his twelve moths of military Jay-Jay’s career so far, is released April 18, reaching the critically acclaimed album ”Silent Shout”. Becomes service. number 4 in the French album chart. The second father to a son, Roman Sixten Lou Delicata Johansson 1991 Arrives in Stockholm to begin Art school. single ”Believe in Us” and the ballad ”Far Away” are on December 31. 1993 Works at i-D magazine in London during the two of his most loved songs ever, and Jay-Jay almost 2007 Releases the album ”The Long Term Physical summer break. At i-D, they just don’t know how to always include these two in his concerts. The ”Poison Effects Are Not Yet Known” on January 17. This album pronounce his name Jäje, so they call him Jay-Jay. Tour” starts in June and ends, again with a sold out is by many seen as his finest. The video to the first 1995 Jay-Jay graduates from Art school. Plays a small show at L’Elysee Montmartre in Paris, after more single ”She Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” is filmed in concert at a friends birthday party, and is discovered than 50 concerts around Europe, Brazil and Canada. Shanghai during his first Chinese tour. A second video, by an A&R from BMG Records. Starts recording in The concert in Paris on November 20 will be the last ”Rocks in Pockets” is shot in Mexico. BMG’s demo studio in Sundbyberg. ”The Girl I Love show in France until Jay-Jay returns to France again 2008 Makes his second original score, to the French is Gone”, ”It Hurts Me So” and ”So Tell the Girls in 2005 for a concert at Bataclan on November 22, film ”La Troisième Partie du monde”. that I Am Back in Town” are the three first songs to more than five years later. 2009 Releases ”Self-Portrait” on February 27. On the be recorded. 2001 The song ”Suffering” from ”Poison” is featured same day Jay-Jay opens an exhibition of self-portraits 1996 Recording and mixing sessions moves over to in the TV-serie ”Queer as Folk”, the first American in an art gallery in Moscow. the Break My Heart Studio February 3. In the studio, drama serie to portray the lives of gay men and women. 2011 Now signed to Universal Records, Jay-Jay situated in the Stockholm archipelago, Jay-Jay starts This becomes the start of a growing fan base in the US. releases the album ”Spellbound” on April 29. This is working close to Erik Jansson on piano and Magnus Jay-Jay has many times mentioned film music as a big his most intimate recordings so far, and the two singles, Frykberg on drums. This trio has not stopped working inspiration, and this year his first soundtrack is released, ”Dilemma” and ”On the Other Side” have both together since. Jay-Jay signs a record deal for 6 albums to the French film ”La Confusion de Genres” . become public favourites. with BMG Records on February 23. The debut album 2002 Meets Laura Delicata on a photo session January 2013 ”Cockroach” is released on September 23. ”Whiskey” is released on September 2. 30. Releases ”Antenna” on August 27. Some songs are 2015 Releases ”Opium” on June 5. Cocteau Twins 1997 ”Whiskey” is released in France and the rest of getting a remixed uptempo treatment by the German Robin Guthrie is again present, as he was 15 years Europe and becomes an instant success. Jay-Jay duo Funkstörung, and the record cover is showing a earlier on the album ”Poison”. A new world tour starts embarks on his first European tour that starts with 30 ”remixed” version of Jay-Jay himself, with make up with more than 50 concerts in Mexico, Canada, Russia, concerts in France. and an orange coloured futuristic hairdo. England and all over Europe. 1998 A second album ”Tattoo” is released on April 15. 2003 Spends most of the year flying back and forth to 2016 Plays again at the Montreal Jazz Festival July 6. A ”Tattoo tour” follows, with more than 50 shows all New York and Miami to perform and promote the new 2017 Jay-Jay gives his first concert in Africa, at the around Europe. The tour ends with a sold out concert album. One legendary show was on Valentines Day Carthage Jazz festival. Releases his 11th studio album at L’Elysee Montmartre in Paris. During the festival at the re-opening of the Andy Warhol Factory. Steven ”Bury the Hatchet”.