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MoJones was born in the suburbs of a little town in the south of Holland. As a kid he carried intstruments around the house all day singing songs he heard on the radio. He left school at sixteen to play in different bands. He became the singer/ hammondplayer of bands such as Via Via, The Winners and Red Blood. Most of the time he was on the road touring Holland, Germany and Belgium. In 2000 he was asked to write the music for a Belgium motion picture. Together with his brother Skinnie he withdrue in a monastary to get the job done. By the time they where ready, the brothers had finished a crazy amount of sixty songs. The best songs where selected for his funky debut album Strong Man (released june 2002), which was well received by the press and musiclovers. Several songs of that album reached the playlists of national radiostations and Where The Sun Stopped Shining climbed to number 31 in the Top 100, getting Mo and his band several TV appearances, and a live performance on the prestigious North Sea Jazz festival. Being an all musiclover Mo is, it wasnt really a surprise that the follow up album would be different. And different it is. No soul or funk this time, but rock. My World (released nov. 2005) contains 11 songs which where recorded both in an A-Class studio and in his bedroom (the leadvocals where done at home), with a simple instrument line-up. Only guitars, bass and drums. Mo thought himself to play the bass and does so on the album, the guitars where done by Skinnie (who wrote most of the songs), all the additional guitars where done by Leendert Haaksma (live on stage Roy Tokaya is the gitarist!) and the drums are played by Belgium drummer Philip Kerkhofs. After hearing My World Pinkpop boss Jan Smeets contracted the band for the Pinkpop festival, edition 2006 and L1 Television chose the band being Best Liveact of 2005.

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