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Its "In Our Nature" to see JOSE GONZALEZ in Hamilton (Fri June 27th)


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[color:green]Cincinnati Records Proudly Presents

FRIDAY JUNE 27, 2008

JOSE GONZALEZ

with special guests TBD

8PM Drs, 9PM Show || LIC-AA || $20 Tickets

Available beginning 04-23-08 at Casbah Lounge, Dr.Disc, on-line at http://www.casbahlounge.ca

CASBAH :: 306 King St W || 905-521-4441

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González was born in Gothenburg, Sweden. His parents moved from Argentina to Sweden in 1978. González grew up listening to Latin folk and pop music, and has named Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodriguez as a favourite artist.[1]

José González studied for a Ph.d in Biochemistry at the University of Gothenburg.

The first band he played in was Back Against the Wall, a Gothenburg hardcore punk band influenced by Black Flag, The Misfits and the Dead Kennedys.[2] He later played bass guitar in another hardcore band, Renascence, between 1993–1998.[3]. Between 1997-1998 Jose played guitar with emo-rock band Only if you call me Jonathan.

In 2003, he released his debut album, Veneer, in Europe. The album was subsequently released in the UK on 25 April 2005, and in the United States on 6 September 2005.

His trademark sound is solo classical guitar with soft vocal melody. His work, although mostly original, also includes acoustic covers of such hits as "Heartbeats" by his fellow Swedes The Knife, "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division, "Born in the U.S.A." and "The Ghost of Tom Joad" by Bruce Springsteen, "Hand on Your Heart" by Kylie Minogue, "Smalltown Boy" by Bronski Beat, "Teardrop" by Massive Attack and "Last Snowstorm of the Year" by Low.

His second album, In Our Nature, was released internationally on 22 September 2007. The album's lyrical content was in part influenced by his reading of books like The God Delusion by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and Practical Ethics by ethicist Peter Singer

WEBS:

http://www.jose-gonzalez.com

http://www.last.fm/music/Jos%c3%a9+Gonz%c3%a1lez

http://www.myspace.com/josegonzalez

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