Jonny Lang
Jonny Lang
Jonny Langis an American blues, gospel, and rock singer, songwriter, guitarist and recording artist. He has five albums that charted on the top 50 of the Billboard 200 chart and has won a Grammy Award for Turn Around...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth29 January 1981
CountryUnited States of America
artist soul black
Some of my influences are black gospel artists so I definitely want to do a soul-gospel type thing.
blessing people able
Right, yeah, you know, my favorite thing just globally about music is just hopefully I'm able to be, you know, blessing the people in any way that I can.
serious musician prove
But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.
thinking artist musical
I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.
artist listening different
I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.
label moral people record standards war
I think the people at my record label know I'm a Christian and again, I've been really blessed that I've never had to get into a head-butt war over moral standards or anything like that.
hate minnesota los-angeles
I moved from Minnesota out to Los Angeles and I thought I was going to hate it out there, but I really like it.
people proud enjoy
I wanted to have something that I was proud of and that I knew people would enjoy.
song writing thinking
I think I've just gotten better at learning how to write a song.
ask grateful
I'm at a place where I just feel so grateful for what I'm doing. I couldn't ask for anything more.
song way
I have way too many songs that have music but don't have lyrics.
thinking albums ends
I think in the future I will end up doing a gospel album.
age firsts concerned
It seemed at first that everybody was more concerned with my age.
song mind able
You know, being able to, in my mind, have a song that you know doesn't really have any loose ends or you know, extra fat in it, so to speak.