Born in Birmingham, England, Jon Buckley started his career as a professional musician in Pretoria in 1991. While writing and composing pop and rock songs for artistes like Jo Day, The New Academics, Toxic Shame and Saron Gas, Jon embarked on a highly successful career in jingle writing working with clients such as MTN, Coca-Cola, South African Breweries, BMW, Nissan and Nestlé.

 

Jon’s compositions in the ad industry won him numerous awards at the well-known Loerie Awards, Cannes Film Festival and New York Awards. At the same time, Jon wrote, composed and produced music for television programmes like 50/50, Angel’s Song, Backstage and Scandal.

 

In 2009 Jon’s first collaboration with Jan Blohm on the groundbreaking album, 7 Jaar, resulted in a SAMA (South African Music Award). A few years later Jon produced Jan Blohm’s acclaimed album, Ruby.

 

Since Jon and Jan combined their expansive range of musical and technical talents to produce a new wave of South African music setting higher standards for songwriting and production, while maintaining a unique homegrown sound.

 

After Blomhuis closed its doors, Jon has emerged with more experience, skills and a better understanding of Afrikaans music as a whole, and has been able to add this knowledge-base to his current and future productions.

 

Jon is currently freelancing at various studios with a diverse cross-section of solo artistes, bands and even live venues.

 

For more information on how to contact Jon, click here to email him or here to join him on Facebook. Check out his live tweets from the studio here and listen to examples of his musical and production skills here on Soundcloud.