JoseGonzalez
Bio:González was born in Gothenburg, Sweden to Argentine parents in 1978. González grew up listening to Latin folk and pop music, and has named Cuban protest singer Silvio Rodriguez as a favourite artist.
The first band he played in was Back Against the Wall, a Gothemburg hardcore punk band influenced by Black Flag, the Misfits and the Dead Kennedys. He later played bass guitar in another hardcore band, Renaissance, between 1993–1998.In 2003, he released his debut album, Veneer, in Europe. The album was subsequently released in the UK on 25 April 2005, and in the United States on 6 September 2005.
His trademark sound is solo classical guitar with soft vocal melody. His work, although mostly original, also includes acoustic covers of such hits as "Heartbeats" by his fellow Swedes The Knife, "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division, "Born in the U.S.A." and "The Ghost of Tom Joad" by Bruce Springsteen, "Hand On Your Heart" by Kylie Minogue, "Smalltown Boy" by Bronski Beat, "Teardrop" by Massive Attack, and "Last Snowstorm of the Year" by Low.
His second album, In Our Nature, was released internationally on 22 September 2007. The album's dogmatic lyrical content and mood were in part influenced by his reading of books like The God Delusion by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and Practical Ethics by ethicist Peter Singer
