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Namn:
The High-Jacks
Ort:
Webb: www.high-jacks.com
Bokning:
Nina Jedevin
Tel: +46(0)70 618 53 17
E-Mail: nina (at) high-jacks.com
Presentation:
The High-Jacks won the Rockabilly price at the Swedish Country-Championships
2006. They also got 63% of the audience votes – all categories!The
High-Jacks plays 50’s rock n’ roll / rockabilly and country.
The band was formed 2004 by Per-Erik Jonsson and Nina Jedevin. Starting
as the back-up band for Wanda
Jackson on her Swedish tour 2004.
Per-Erik had up till then been the Rockabilly Queen’s Swedish house
”piano-man” for 20 years with different bands. Per-Erik Jonsson
debuted in a Swedish TV-show when he was only 11 years old in 1974.
In 1978 his second album “Thunderbird Rock” was a great success
with his own title song hitting #4 on the European top twenty! (The song
is re-recorded 2007 by the High-Jacks for a summer CD-single release)
During his long carrier as a solo artist Per-Erik has also been working
with many different bands and artists like: Red Hot Max, Country
Minstrels, Freetown Highway, Wildfire Willie & The Ramblers, The
Go Getters, Huelyn Duvall, Sleepy
LaBeaf, Orville
Nash, Rosie
Flores, Connie
Smith among others and of course around 200 gigs with Wanda Jackson.
Together with bass players Anders Thomasson and Alf Östlund he was
the founder of Square Man Stan & His Nuclear Rockets with the one-only
song “Ride My Rocket” /Tail Records hitting the charts with
great success!
In his own recording studio during the 90’s he was the sound architect
of many bands/artists for instance, The Go Getters, 42nd Street and Phil
Trigwell. Per-Erik Jonsson is the King of Boogie Woogie and Rock N Roll!!Nina
was the singer in different bands in Sweden she performed first time 1970
at the age of 5 years. She has been influenced by artists like Patsy Cline,
Elvis Presley, Janis Martin and Wanda Jackson. Her passion for old-time
country and rockabilly has in The High-Jacks found its native playground!
On stage she is a natural born entertainer. |
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2006 has been a good year for the band with lots of gigs, and it seems
like 2007 will get even better, starting with an appearance on Swedish
national television in January!
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Band members today:
Per-Erik Jonsson – Piano/Vocals,
Nina Jedevin – Vocals,
Lars Andersson – Guitar/Vocals,
Anders Thomasson – Upright Bass,
Jarl Kynkäänniemi – Drums. |
