Jon Bon Jovi has released numerous albums over his 30 year long career and received several awards not only for his musical ability but also for his dashing looks and humanitarian work around the world.
Jon Bon Jovi was born in New Jersey on March 2nd, 1962. He attended school at St. Joseph High School but majority of the times he was missing from his classes and bunking school to play music and be a part of other musical activities. He even commenced playing with a local band from a very young age and by his 16th birthday he was already playing at clubs in and around his hometown.
During his very early years Jon Bon Jovi played with a quite a few different people such as the Atlantic City Expressway which was a ten-piece rhythm and blues band, the Wild Ones, The Rest and The Lechers and John Bongiovi. However, one of Jon’s first recording ever was no die hard rock number but a Christmas Carol in 1980 called "R2-D2 We Wish You A Merry Christmas."
In the early 80's Jon was trying to get a break into the rock music industry and along with Hugh McDonald, his future band bassist and Dave Sabo, the future Skid Row guitarist, Jon wrote and recorded the song Runaway. Initially, none of the major music companies would accept his song, so Jon went to a WAPP-FM DJ and made him listen to Runaway, The DJ instantly liked the song and not only played the song but also put it to the WAPP record. The song was an immediate success and topped the charts. After the triumph of his first song Jon Bon Jovi signed his first major record contract with Mercury in 1983. This started his new band named Bon Jovi and a career that not many will not remember.
The group now had Jon Bon Jovi on vocals and guitar, Richie Sambora on guitar and backup vocals, Tico Torres on drums and percussions and David Bryan on keyboard and backup vocals. The Bon Jovi band’s foremost album named “Bon Jovi” was released in 1984 and the record went gold, selling over 500,000 albums. However, the second album was a failure and didn’t get a lot of acknowledgement. But the bands fortunes were about to transform when they hired songwriter Desmond Child. Desmond helped write the songs in the groups third album named “Slippery When Wet”, which sold over 28 million albums. After that the band released a number of different albums which enjoyed worldwide success.
As of now, the band has planned on a concert tour which will take them through North America and Europe. The first show of their tour, which is been titled the Circle World Tour, will be held in Honolulu, HI on February, 11th 2010. Besides a many US cities the major cities that the gorup will play during their tour are Wichita, Glendale, East Rutherford, Las Vegas, Omaha, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto and Regina. The Circle Tour will finish on July, 30th 2010 with a show in Chicago, IL. Bon Jovi Tickets are now on sale on the internet from a ticket broker as tickets are sold out. Purchase cheap Bon Jovi tickets for providing the discount code Circle at checkout on TicketsWizard.com where you will get 5% off your concert tickets.
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