Jon Bon Jovi has released several albums over his 30 year long career and received many awards not only for his musical ability but also for his attractive looks and humanitarian work around our planet.
Jon Bon Jovi was born in New Jersey on March 2nd, 1962. Jon attended school at St. Joseph High School but most of the times he was missing from his classes and bunking lessons to play music and be a part of other musical activities. Jon even started playing with a local band from a very young age and by the time he was 16 he was already playing at clubs in and around New Jersey.
During his early years Jon Bon Jovi played with a quite a few different bands such as the Atlantic City Expressway which was a ten-piece rhythm and blues band, the Wild Ones, The Rest and The Lechers and John Bongiovi. However, one of Jon’s initial recording ever was no die hard rock number but a Christmas Carol in 1980 called “R2-D2 We Wish You A Merry Christmas.”
In the early 1980’s Jon was really looking for a break into the rock music industry and along with Hugh McDonald, his future band bassist and Dave Sabo, the future Skid Row guitarist, Jon wrote and recorded the song Runaway. At first, none of the major music companies would accept his song, so he went to a WAPP-FM DJ and made him listen to Runaway, The DJ immediately appreciated the song and not only played the song but also added it to the WAPP record. The song was an instant success and topped the charts. After the success of his first song Jon Bon Jovi signed his first most important record contract with Mercury in 1983. This gave start to his new group named Bon Jovi and a career that few will forget.
The band now had Jon Bon Jovi on vocals and guitar, Richie Sambora on guitar and backup vocals, Tico Torres on drums and percussions and David Bryan on keyboard and backup vocals. The Bon Jovi band’s foremost album named “Bon Jovi” was released in 1984 and the record went gold, selling over half a million copies. However, the next record was a failure and didn’t get a lot of acknowledgement. But the groups luck were about to change when they brought in songwriter Desmond Child. Desmond assisted in writing the songs in the bands third album named “Slippery When Wet”, which sold more than 28 million records. After that the band released many different albums which enjoyed global success.
Presently, the band has planned on a tour which will take them through North America and Europe. The first concert of their tour, which is been titled the Circle World Tour, will be held in Honolulu, HI on February, 11th 2010. Besides a number of American cities the major cities that the band will play during their tour are Montreal, Glendale, Anaheim, Los Angeles, Nashville, Fargo, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Atlanta and Fort Lauderdale. The Circle Tour will end on July, 30th 2010 with a show in Chicago, IL. Bon Jovi Tickets are now on sale online from a ticket broker as concert tickets are sold out. Get discount Bon Jovi tickets for providing the discount code Circle at checkout on TicketsWizard.com where you will get 5% off your Bon Jovi tickets.
