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Jon Anderson, born John Roy Anderson on October 25, 1944, in Accrington, is a British singer, composer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is a member of the band Yes and has worked with Vangelis in the project Jon and Vangelis. Anderson’s musical career began in 1963, and he performs in genres including rock, progressive rock, art rock, and new age. His voice type is countertenor, and he plays the ukulele, guitar, and harp. He has released music through Columbia Records and Atlantic Records.
Anderson is also an author with 35 works listed, including *All This*, *Keeper*, *Literary Atlas*, *Your Trophy Home*, and *Dream Home Dangers*. He speaks English and holds citizenship in the United Kingdom.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 35
Top works
- All This
- Keeper
- Literary Atlas
- Your Trophy Home
- Dream Home Dangers
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Accrington, England, UK
Jon Anderson (born on 25 October 1944) is an English musician best known as the former lead singer of the progressive rock band Yes. He is also an accomplished solo artist and has collaborated with artists such as the Greek musician Vangelis, among others. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jon Anderson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
- Jon Anderson And The Band Geeks - Live - Perpetual Change — Lead Vocals, Percussion, Guitar, Harp2025
- Resynator — Self2024
- Legends and Idols2022
- Yes - Live at the Apollo — Lead Vocals2018
- Yes: Close to the Edge — Vocals2013
- Yes - Union Live — Self - Lead Vocals2011
- State Of Independence: Jon Anderson And The Contemporary Youth Orchestra — himself2010
- Yes: Rock Of The 70's — Himself2009
- Shadow Billionaire — Himself2009
- Prog Rock at the BBC — Self2009
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1944
Discography
- Olias of Sunhillow1976
- Song of Seven1980
- Animation1982
- Surrender1982
- 3 Ships1985
- Hold On To Love1988
- In the City of Angels1988
- Amor Real1994
- Candle Song1994
- Change We Must1994
Member of
- Yes1968–1979
- Yes1983–1988
- Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe1988–1990
- Yes1991–2008
- Anderson Ponty Bandsince 2014
- Yes featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman
- The Warriors
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 120,292
- Total plays
- 1,178,554
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Jon Anderson, born John Roy Anderson on 25 October 1944, is an English musician, best known as the lead singer of the progressive rock band Yes. He is also an accomplished solo artist, and has collaborated with the Greek musician Vangelis, as part of the duo Jon & Vangelis. Early life and childhood Jon Anderson was born in the town of Accrington, Lancashire, England, in a family of Scottish and Irish ancestry, his parents being Albert and Kathleen Anderson. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/J
Key facts
- Born
- John Roy Anderson , ( 1944-10-25 ) 25 October 1944 (age 81) , Accrington , Lancashire , England
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, United States (since 2009)
- Occupations
- Singer songwriter musician
- Years active
- 1963–present
- Spouses
- Jennifer Baker ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 22 December 1969</span>"}]]}'>1969 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1995 ) Jane Luttenberger ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1997 )
- Children
- 3, including Deborah and Jade
- Genres
- Progressive rock symphonic rock pop rock new-age
- Instruments
- Vocals guitar percussion
- Works
- Discography tours
- Labels
- Atlantic Polydor Elektra Columbia Angel Windham Hill Higher Octave Eagle Cleopatra Voiceprint Wounded Bird EMI Blue Élan
- Formerly of
- The Warriors Mabel Greer's Toyshop Yes Jon and Vangelis Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe Yes Featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman
- Website
- jonanderson .com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- Jon and Vangelis
- Given name
- Roy
- Family name
- Anderson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Accrington
- Occupation
- musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- progressive rock
- Instrument
- harp
- Record label
- Atlantic Records
- Official website
- www.jonanderson.com
- Image
- Jon Anderson 2017 (cropped).jpg
- Voice type
- countertenor
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- Commons category
- Jon Anderson
- date of birth
- 1944-10-25
- member of
- Yes
- start of work period
- 1963-00-00
- birth name
- John Roy Anderson
- name in native language
- Jon Anderson
- partner in business or sport
- Vangelis
- social media followers
- 45900
- copyright representative
- PRS for Music
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Encyclopedic overview
Jon Anderson (born John Roy Anderson, 25 October 1944) is an English singer, songwriter, and musician who co-founded the progressive rock band Yes with bassist Chris Squire in 1968 and rose to prominence as their lead vocalist. The band pioneered progressive rock in the 1970s, particularly with their critically-acclaimed albums The Yes Album, Fragile (both 1971) and Close to the Edge (1972) which display Anderson's role in crafting the group's sound as one of the main songwriters and lyricists. Known for his high tenor vocal style, Anderson was a member of Yes across three tenures until 2004.
Born and raised in Accrington in northern England, Anderson gave up manual labour in the early 1960s in favour of singing in The Warriors with his brother. He moved to London and after several unsuccessful singles as a solo artist, co-formed Yes with Squire. Anderson left the band in 1980 due to growing internal friction and continued his solo career, which he had started in 1976 with his debut album, Olias of Sunhillow. He went on to collaborate with other musicians, including Greek keyboardist and composer Vangelis as Jon and Vangelis, Roine Stolt as Anderson/Stolt, Jean-Luc Ponty as the Anderson Ponty Band, and The Band Geeks as Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks, with whom he has toured repeatedly and released two albums in recent years. He has appeared on albums by King Crimson, Toto, Lawrence Gowan, Tangerine Dream, Iron Butterfly, Milton Nascimento, Battles, Mike Oldfield and Kitaro. Anderson was a member of the offshoot Yes groups Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe and Yes Featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman.
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