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jonas blue
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the 27 year old dj and song writer, jonas blue, opens up to smoke mag over his recent hit single “by your side” and how he was inspired to persue a career in music. Why did you choose the name Jonas Blue? As it’s not your real name. No, it’s not. I chose that name because the music that I was making at the time was very different to what I make now as Jonas Blue. I knew I needed a new name. So as a DJ, a lot of the music that they were making was coming so I thought “why not a Swedish name?” How did you get into music? I didn’t go to high school and my friend at the time made it very clear that playing musical instruments was terrible and very uncool, so I stopped that. Luckily enough i’ve learnt how to play them. At the same time, I was watching this programme called Club 1830, which was based on the bad side of Ibiza- but I didn’t know it at that time. Ibiza to me was just amazing. I became a DJ due to watching that programme, with people like David Guetta, David Morales and Carl Cox.
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07/12/2016 20:48
