Johnny Jewel

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Johnny Jewel is an eclectic American composer, producer, lyricist, & visual artist. He is a multi-instrumentalist known for combining the sounds of analog synthesizers with electro acoustic instruments to create ultra-vivid textural landscapes. He has been releasing ground breaking & genre bending records since the mid-1990s. For the last twenty years, Jewel has owned & operated his own label; the influential Italians Do It Better Records. Producing & releasing dozens of artists from all over the globe, Jewel is the driving creative force behind his Synth Pop groups Desire, Chromatics, & Glass Candy. 
 He was recruited by The Weeknd to remix his number one song "Blinding Lights", & has collaborated with dance music elites Diplo, Guy Gerber, Maceo Plex, Omar S & The Hacker. His original compostions have been sampled by Kid Cudi, 21 Savage, Jarvis Cocker, P Diddy, Nas & more. As a film composer, Jewel is known for his work with Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn on the films Bronson (2008) & Drive (2011) starring Ryan Gosling. Two years later, Gosling hand picked Jewel to score his directorial debut, Lost River. He received the Georges Delerue Award for best original score for his avante garde work with Belgian director Fien Troch on her film Home. In 2017, he appeared on screen in David Lynch's iconic Twin Peaks, for which he also contributed musical score alongside the legendary Angelo Badelementi. Jewel's music has soundtracked numerous runways.