John Grant (born July 25, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter. Formerly associated with the Denver-based alternative rock band The Czars in the 1990s and early 2000s, he launched a career as a solo artist in 2010.
Grant was born in Buchanan, Michigan and raised in Parker, Colorado. He studied languages in Germany and after The Czars split up in 2006, based himself in New York, London, Berlin and Iceland.
Following The Czars, Grant took some time off from making music and returned to recording and performing in 2010 with his debut solo album Queen of Denmark. Released in April 2010, it had been recorded in collaboration with the American folk-rock band Midlake and released on Bella Union. Described as a deeply personal album about his past struggles with alcohol and drug addiction and coming to terms with being gay, it was chosen as Best Album of 2010 by the British music magazine Mojo.
John Grant (1857 – 19 May 1928) was a Scottish-born Australian politician. Born in Abernethy, he received a primary education before becoming a stonemason. Migrating to Australia in 1880, he became Secretary of the Stonemasons' Union and a founding member of the New South WalesLabor Party. He served as the NSW ALP's General Secretary before his election to the Australian Senate in 1914 as a Labor Senator from New South Wales. Defeated in 1919, he returned to the Senate in 1922, holding the seat until his death in 1928.
Grant joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman in the battleshipHMSQueen Elizabeth in 1926. He specialised in anti-submarine warfare and saw service in the Atlantic, Arctic and Mediterranean during World War II. He became staff officer for convoys at Rosyth in 1940 and then commanded the destroyerHMS Beverley from 1941 before being posted to the anti-submarine warfare training school, HMS Osprey, in a training role from 1942. He briefly commanded the yachtHMS Philante in 1943 and then became Assistant Staff Officer for Operations at Headquarters Western Approaches later that year.
John Grant's songs don't mess around: The music isn't complicated, while the lyrics function as darts of retort and thought. His album Pale Green Ghosts is decorated with synthesizers, his voice often drenched in reverb; those tools and textures help make the record strong and everlasting.
So when Grant came to the Tiny Desk with just an acoustic guitarist — and wanted to play piano himself — I feared that the power of the songs I'd come to love wouldn't translate amid such bare sounds. I was wrong, and his music was just right. The lyrics rush forward and hit hard. Try this line from the first song he performs, "Where Dreams Go to Die":
Baby, you're where dreams go to die
I regret the day your lovely carcass caught my eye
Grant is known to some as the singer from the Denver band The Cz...
published: 14 Jul 2014
John Grant - GMF
John Grant - GMF, video directed by Lucy Luscombe.
From the 2013 album 'Pale Green Ghosts'.
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published: 27 Mar 2013
John Grant - Queen of Denmark (Strongroom Sessions)
We invited John Grant in to the Strongrooms Studios to film a session, the outcome being a further exemplification of this man's talents... and charm.
Here is the recording of album title track 'Queen of Denmark'
Purchase your copy of 'Queen of Denmark':
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published: 22 Oct 2010
John Grant - Disappointing feat. Tracey Thorn (Official Music Video)
From the album 'Grey Tickles, Black Pressure'
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published: 09 Sep 2015
John Grant - "GMF" (w/ Sinead O'Connor and Róisín Waters) | The Saturday Night Show
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American singer-songwriter and cult hero John Grant performed his hit "GMF" on The Saturday Night Show on March 1st 2014 with backing vocals from friend Sinead O'Connor and her daughter Róisín Waters.
published: 02 Mar 2014
Elbow - Kindling (Fickle Flame) ft. John Grant
Kindling (Fickle Flame)', a special re-recorded version of the 'Little Fictions' album track, has been transformed into a duet between Guy and John Grant and is available now to download and stream.
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elbow have announced live dates for 2018, for tickets and more visit http://www.elbow.co.uk
Music video by Elbow performing Kindling (Fickle Flame). (C) 2017 Polydor Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
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published: 18 Sep 2017
John Grant & Conor O'Brien - Glacier
John Grant is joined on Wilton's stage by Villagers' Conor O'Brien for a moving performance of 'Glacier'
published: 02 May 2013
John Grant (feat. Midlake) - I Wanna Go To Marz - Official Video HD
John Grant (feat. Midlake) - I Wanna Go To Marz music video. Directed by Casey Raymond and Ewan Jones Morris. From the album 'Queen of Denmark'.
published: 20 May 2010
John Grant, Vicar Street Dublin October 2024
published: 23 Oct 2024
John Grant - I Wanna To Go To Marz (Music Video)
From the movie “Weekend” https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1714210/
John Grant's songs don't mess around: The music isn't complicated, while the lyrics function as darts of retort and thought. His album Pale Green Ghosts is deco...
John Grant's songs don't mess around: The music isn't complicated, while the lyrics function as darts of retort and thought. His album Pale Green Ghosts is decorated with synthesizers, his voice often drenched in reverb; those tools and textures help make the record strong and everlasting.
So when Grant came to the Tiny Desk with just an acoustic guitarist — and wanted to play piano himself — I feared that the power of the songs I'd come to love wouldn't translate amid such bare sounds. I was wrong, and his music was just right. The lyrics rush forward and hit hard. Try this line from the first song he performs, "Where Dreams Go to Die":
Baby, you're where dreams go to die
I regret the day your lovely carcass caught my eye
Grant is known to some as the singer from the Denver band The Czars, but these days he lives in Iceland. He recently helped translate the best-selling Icelandic album from Ásgeir Trausti into English. Pale Green Ghosts is his second album on his own, though he did have help from the band Midlake when he recorded Queen of Denmark in 2010. The two solo records and much of his writings are deeply personal, touching on his sexuality and his battles with drugs and alcohol. Stripped to its core, this material gets even stronger — and here's proof. --BOB BOILEN
SET LIST
"Where Dreams Go To Die"
"Sigourney Weaver"
"It Doesn't Matter To Him"
CREDITS
Producers: Bob Boilen, Denise DeBelius; Audio Engineer: Kevin Wait; Videographers: Denise DeBelius, Olivia Merrion; Production Assistant: Alex Schelldorf; photo by Alex Schelldorf/NPR
John Grant's songs don't mess around: The music isn't complicated, while the lyrics function as darts of retort and thought. His album Pale Green Ghosts is decorated with synthesizers, his voice often drenched in reverb; those tools and textures help make the record strong and everlasting.
So when Grant came to the Tiny Desk with just an acoustic guitarist — and wanted to play piano himself — I feared that the power of the songs I'd come to love wouldn't translate amid such bare sounds. I was wrong, and his music was just right. The lyrics rush forward and hit hard. Try this line from the first song he performs, "Where Dreams Go to Die":
Baby, you're where dreams go to die
I regret the day your lovely carcass caught my eye
Grant is known to some as the singer from the Denver band The Czars, but these days he lives in Iceland. He recently helped translate the best-selling Icelandic album from Ásgeir Trausti into English. Pale Green Ghosts is his second album on his own, though he did have help from the band Midlake when he recorded Queen of Denmark in 2010. The two solo records and much of his writings are deeply personal, touching on his sexuality and his battles with drugs and alcohol. Stripped to its core, this material gets even stronger — and here's proof. --BOB BOILEN
SET LIST
"Where Dreams Go To Die"
"Sigourney Weaver"
"It Doesn't Matter To Him"
CREDITS
Producers: Bob Boilen, Denise DeBelius; Audio Engineer: Kevin Wait; Videographers: Denise DeBelius, Olivia Merrion; Production Assistant: Alex Schelldorf; photo by Alex Schelldorf/NPR
John Grant - GMF, video directed by Lucy Luscombe.
From the 2013 album 'Pale Green Ghosts'.
http://www.bellaunion.com
Available now: http://bellaunion.sandbag.u...
John Grant - GMF, video directed by Lucy Luscombe.
From the 2013 album 'Pale Green Ghosts'.
http://www.bellaunion.com
Available now: http://bellaunion.sandbag.uk.com/Store/DII-10557-8-john+grant++pale+green+ghosts.html
John Grant - GMF, video directed by Lucy Luscombe.
From the 2013 album 'Pale Green Ghosts'.
http://www.bellaunion.com
Available now: http://bellaunion.sandbag.uk.com/Store/DII-10557-8-john+grant++pale+green+ghosts.html
We invited John Grant in to the Strongrooms Studios to film a session, the outcome being a further exemplification of this man's talents... and charm.
Here is ...
We invited John Grant in to the Strongrooms Studios to film a session, the outcome being a further exemplification of this man's talents... and charm.
Here is the recording of album title track 'Queen of Denmark'
Purchase your copy of 'Queen of Denmark':
http://bellaunion.sandbag.uk.com/
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/john-grant/id18905117
http://www.twitter.com/bellaunion
http://www.facebook.com/bellaunion
We invited John Grant in to the Strongrooms Studios to film a session, the outcome being a further exemplification of this man's talents... and charm.
Here is the recording of album title track 'Queen of Denmark'
Purchase your copy of 'Queen of Denmark':
http://bellaunion.sandbag.uk.com/
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/john-grant/id18905117
http://www.twitter.com/bellaunion
http://www.facebook.com/bellaunion
Watch the full episode of The Saturday Night Show: http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/10258256/ and for more videos go to: http://www.rte.ie/player/
American sin...
Watch the full episode of The Saturday Night Show: http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/10258256/ and for more videos go to: http://www.rte.ie/player/
American singer-songwriter and cult hero John Grant performed his hit "GMF" on The Saturday Night Show on March 1st 2014 with backing vocals from friend Sinead O'Connor and her daughter Róisín Waters.
Watch the full episode of The Saturday Night Show: http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/10258256/ and for more videos go to: http://www.rte.ie/player/
American singer-songwriter and cult hero John Grant performed his hit "GMF" on The Saturday Night Show on March 1st 2014 with backing vocals from friend Sinead O'Connor and her daughter Róisín Waters.
Kindling (Fickle Flame)', a special re-recorded version of the 'Little Fictions' album track, has been transformed into a duet between Guy and John Grant and is...
Kindling (Fickle Flame)', a special re-recorded version of the 'Little Fictions' album track, has been transformed into a duet between Guy and John Grant and is available now to download and stream.
https://Elbow.lnk.to/KindlingFFID
elbow have announced live dates for 2018, for tickets and more visit http://www.elbow.co.uk
Music video by Elbow performing Kindling (Fickle Flame). (C) 2017 Polydor Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
http://vevo.ly/YHe3H2
Kindling (Fickle Flame)', a special re-recorded version of the 'Little Fictions' album track, has been transformed into a duet between Guy and John Grant and is available now to download and stream.
https://Elbow.lnk.to/KindlingFFID
elbow have announced live dates for 2018, for tickets and more visit http://www.elbow.co.uk
Music video by Elbow performing Kindling (Fickle Flame). (C) 2017 Polydor Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
http://vevo.ly/YHe3H2
John Grant's songs don't mess around: The music isn't complicated, while the lyrics function as darts of retort and thought. His album Pale Green Ghosts is decorated with synthesizers, his voice often drenched in reverb; those tools and textures help make the record strong and everlasting.
So when Grant came to the Tiny Desk with just an acoustic guitarist — and wanted to play piano himself — I feared that the power of the songs I'd come to love wouldn't translate amid such bare sounds. I was wrong, and his music was just right. The lyrics rush forward and hit hard. Try this line from the first song he performs, "Where Dreams Go to Die":
Baby, you're where dreams go to die
I regret the day your lovely carcass caught my eye
Grant is known to some as the singer from the Denver band The Czars, but these days he lives in Iceland. He recently helped translate the best-selling Icelandic album from Ásgeir Trausti into English. Pale Green Ghosts is his second album on his own, though he did have help from the band Midlake when he recorded Queen of Denmark in 2010. The two solo records and much of his writings are deeply personal, touching on his sexuality and his battles with drugs and alcohol. Stripped to its core, this material gets even stronger — and here's proof. --BOB BOILEN
SET LIST
"Where Dreams Go To Die"
"Sigourney Weaver"
"It Doesn't Matter To Him"
CREDITS
Producers: Bob Boilen, Denise DeBelius; Audio Engineer: Kevin Wait; Videographers: Denise DeBelius, Olivia Merrion; Production Assistant: Alex Schelldorf; photo by Alex Schelldorf/NPR
John Grant - GMF, video directed by Lucy Luscombe.
From the 2013 album 'Pale Green Ghosts'.
http://www.bellaunion.com
Available now: http://bellaunion.sandbag.uk.com/Store/DII-10557-8-john+grant++pale+green+ghosts.html
We invited John Grant in to the Strongrooms Studios to film a session, the outcome being a further exemplification of this man's talents... and charm.
Here is the recording of album title track 'Queen of Denmark'
Purchase your copy of 'Queen of Denmark':
http://bellaunion.sandbag.uk.com/
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/john-grant/id18905117
http://www.twitter.com/bellaunion
http://www.facebook.com/bellaunion
Watch the full episode of The Saturday Night Show: http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/10258256/ and for more videos go to: http://www.rte.ie/player/
American singer-songwriter and cult hero John Grant performed his hit "GMF" on The Saturday Night Show on March 1st 2014 with backing vocals from friend Sinead O'Connor and her daughter Róisín Waters.
Kindling (Fickle Flame)', a special re-recorded version of the 'Little Fictions' album track, has been transformed into a duet between Guy and John Grant and is available now to download and stream.
https://Elbow.lnk.to/KindlingFFID
elbow have announced live dates for 2018, for tickets and more visit http://www.elbow.co.uk
Music video by Elbow performing Kindling (Fickle Flame). (C) 2017 Polydor Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
http://vevo.ly/YHe3H2
John Grant (born July 25, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter. Formerly associated with the Denver-based alternative rock band The Czars in the 1990s and early 2000s, he launched a career as a solo artist in 2010.
Grant was born in Buchanan, Michigan and raised in Parker, Colorado. He studied languages in Germany and after The Czars split up in 2006, based himself in New York, London, Berlin and Iceland.
Following The Czars, Grant took some time off from making music and returned to recording and performing in 2010 with his debut solo album Queen of Denmark. Released in April 2010, it had been recorded in collaboration with the American folk-rock band Midlake and released on Bella Union. Described as a deeply personal album about his past struggles with alcohol and drug addiction and coming to terms with being gay, it was chosen as Best Album of 2010 by the British music magazine Mojo.
Kyle MullinLinda Thompson – JohnGrant... But hosannas of that sort don’t get more meta or moving, than Linda Thompson’s nod to fellow singer-songwriter John Grant. Not only did she name her song John Grant, she got the actual John Grant to sing it.
And GrantBird's day job is even more rock-star than most. he's a tour chef to musicians including Beyonce, Ariana Grande and JohnLegend... 'There are so many dietary preferences to get to grips with,' Grant says.
It has been a fraught time for the pair after Daryl was granted a temporary restraining order against John last November. Tensions between the musicians began when Daryl filed a lawsuit in November ...
The orchestra gets together with the extraordinary American musician JohnGrant, Derry artist Soak, and indie rockers PillowQueens enjoying their first gig with such elaborate backing.