Jon Raven

There are two artists by the name of Jon Raven. 1. An American rock front man and guitarist. 2. An English folk vocalist and musician. 1. Jon Raven (Greensboro, North Carolina, USA) RECORDING ARTIST/MUSICIAN/PRODUCER/ACTOR/PERFORMER Jon Raven was born June 9th, 1967 in Greensboro, North Carolina. Jon Raven began performing at the tender age of five, with his brother's gospel band "The Brothers and Ruth" who produced three successful albums. By the age of nine he had sang alongside such gospel legends as "The Dixie Melody Boys", "The Oak Ridge Boys, "The Hopper Brothers and Connie" and many more. Many of the Gospel Artists that Jon performed with as a child, later, went on to become secular country stars. At the age of thirteen, Jon signed his first modeling contract and worked on many successful print campaigns. This lead to commercials and further success. In 1984, Jon took first place in Fighting, and Forms at the U.S. Tae Kwon Do Championships. This opened the door for an opportunity to perform a fight scene, in the made for television movie, "Peyton Place; The Next Generation". Sparked by that first day on set, Raven realized he had two loves in his life; Film and Music. Taking film extremely seriously, he decided to study with Adam Roarke, at the now infamous, "Film Actors Lab", located in Dallas, Texas. A reporter, dubbed, the Film Actors Lab the " Hell's Angels School of Acting". Lou Diamond Phillips, being the most famous alumni, spent many hours with Jon honing improvisational skills. Raven feels that these skills are a key element of a musical or dramatic performance. Throughout the 80's and 90's Jon was Front Man, and Guitarist, for many bands with varying degrees of success; but, chose to start fresh with the new millennium as a Solo Artist. He co-produced his first solo album with award winning Canadian producer, Rick Kilborn; and also Glenna Powrie, at Riverside Studios in Burnaby, Canada. He has also recorded his second solo album, as well as produced the tracks for White Raven Records Recording Artist Heather Ann's first solo album. Currently Jon has founded Rock God Entertainment Group, a video game production company, with the goal of developing interactive entertainment based video games and products that allows the user to be immersed in the world of being a Rock Legend. The purpose of the Rock God game series is to introduce the “Real Life” of Rock Stars and to reacquaint Classic Rock fans with their adolescent idols. The first of a series of games is currently in development. 2. Jon Raven (Wolverhampton, England) Recording artist, musician, author. Jon Raven is a folk artist, musician, and author from Wolverhampton. The majority of Raven's work (both musical and written) focuses on the Black Country area of England and its customs, traditions and folklore. Raven is also known from his time in folk trio, The Black Country Three along with brother Michael Raven and Derek Craft in the mid 1960s. In 1968 he performed on the album The Halliard alongside The Jolly Machine, followed by Kate of Coalbrookdale and Ballad of the Black Country with John Kirkpatrick, David Oxley and Mike Billington in the 70s. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.