Matt Johnson

Matt Johnson born 3 February 1969 is a British keyboardist who plays for the funk and jazz band Jamiroquai Johnson was aged one and a half when he started playing the piano at his family home My dad was a musician so there was always music playing in the house but I remember being taught by a scary old piano teacher who must have been over 90 years old His influences range from Herbie Hancock and Miles Davis through to Squarepusher Before playing in Jamiroquai Johnson was a writer and performer for bands Sunraywith whom Kym Mazelle recorded a cover of Perhapsand Nu Hope He has also written and produced songs for artists such as Alexia who had a minor hit with Ring His route into Jamiroquai was via an audition in 2002 He was recommended by Simon Katz a previous Jamiroquai guitarist and Derrick gave him the call The audition was a success and Matt became a songwriter and member of Jamiroquai He joined Jamiroquai on 2 May 2002 replacing the founding member Toby Smith as keyboardist Johnson has also had a stint as the chief songwriting partner and produceralong with a Jamiroquai bandmate guitarist Rob Harrisfor singersongwriter Julian Perretta helping him create his debut album Stitch Me Up which was released in 2010 Johnson produced and cowrote songs for the groups 2017 album Automaton with bandmate Jay Kay He also produced Jon Regens 2019 album Higher GroundIn July 2020 he released three singlesWith The Music ZOOM and Sunshineto promote his new album With the Music which was released on 18 July 2020 in Japan followed by a worldwide release two days later Sound on Sound magazine website described Johnson as one of the most talented and prolific keyboard players of the last 20 years in April 2022 Johnson married Tanya Burke on 18 July 2006 Source Article Matt Johnson keyboardist from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30