Jon Foreman

Bio:Jon was born in San Bernardino, California and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, Norfolk, Virginia and later, in San Diego. Jon has always been comfortable in the spotlight...even as a young boy. Once, when his father took him to a local parade, Jon got lost. His dad searched everywhere for him but at last, he finally found him, at the end of the parade, marching with everyone else. Jon wanted to be a professional soccer player when he grew up. At the suggestion of a friend, Jon learned to play the guitar in Junior High, and later, helped his brother Tim learn to play the bass.

Jon then attended college at UCSan Diego, majoring in Economics and studying music. He formed the band Switchfoot (with Tim and a friend from high school Chad Butler) and the band was quickly signed to an indie label called Re:think and Switchfoot recorded an album. As the band began to grow and become more successful, Jon dropped out of college to pursue music full time.

Jon can play the guitar, the keyboards, the piano, the drums, the harmonica and the trumpet. He has also contributed his voice to a variety of bands in the music scene. Jon is a gifted writer and he has been involved in several books (The Art of Being, New Way To Be Human and Be The Change). He will often write a song a day. Jon also enjoys philosophy and says that if he were not in the band, he would want to be teaching a philosophy class.

Jon started two side projects. One, was a solo career and the second was a band called The Real SeanJon that he started with his friend Sean Watkins from Nickel Creek. He uses these side projects as a vechile to get some of his songs that don't fit with the "Switchfoot sound".