Superheavy Biography

What is SuperHeavy?

Mick Jagger has teamed up with Eurythmics founder Dave Stewart, soul singer Joss Stone, Academy Award winning composer and global superstar A.R.Rahman and reggae star Damian “Jr Gong” Marley to form a cooperative project called SuperHeavy. This diverse and eclectic line up who share eleven Grammy Awards between them, have been recording together in various studios around the world, with the majority of the tracks on the project laid down over three weeks in Los Angeles earlier this year. Their self titled debut album will be unveiled in September and tracks include the first single ‘Miracle Worker’, plus ‘One Day One Night’, ‘Energy’, ‘Unbelievable,’ ‘SuperHeavy,’ I Can’t Take It No More,’ ‘You’re Never Gonna Change’ and ‘I Don’t Mind.’ It’s little wonder that Stewart refers to SuperHeavy as, “A mad alchemist type experiment“. Fusing the talents of one of the greatest front-men of all time, a two time Academy award winning Indian composer, a soul vocal prodigy, a three time Grammy winning reggae star, and one of the most sought after producers in the world, you would expect the explosive results to defy categorisation.

an Introduction to the Band Members

Mick Jagger 

Mick Jagger is rock’s premier frontman and one of the most popular and influential British musicians of all time. Instantly recognizable as the iconic lead singer with the Rolling Stones, the greatest rock’n'roll band in the world, he has set standards for performance and creativity that remain unmatched to this day.

Dave Stewart

Dave Stewart’s music career spans three decades and more than 100 million album sales, highlighted by his collaboration with Annie Lennox in the groundbreaking pop-rock group The Eurythmics (“Sweet Dreams [Are Made of This]“, “Would I Lie to You?” and dozens more). Behind the scenes, he’s produced albums and co-written songs for Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty, Bono, Sinead O’Connor, Mick Jagger, Katy Perry, Jon Bon Jovi and a host of others, racking up numerous Producer, Songwriter and Grammy Awards along the way.

Joss Stone 

Joss Stone has been obsessed with soul music since she was a little girl. By the time she was in her early teens she had begun to intuitively hone her now trademark gravely-but-lustrous vocals by singing along to Aretha’s Franklin’s Greatest Hits. She began pursuing a singing career at thirteen, when she auditioned for UK talent show Star For a Night. This eventually led to a record deal and the release of Stone’s star- making debut album, ‘The Soul Sessions’, in 2003. Her second record, 2004′s ‘Mind Body & Soul’ earned Stone three Grammy nominations and was followed by 2007′s ‘Introducing Joss Stone’ which achieved the highest debut billboard chart position for a female British solo artist.

Damian “Jr Gong” Marley

Though his debut album was released in 1996, Damian “Jr Gong” Marley had been honing his skills as a singer, MC, songwriter, lyricist and producer since long before then, performing both with a group and as a solo artist from the age of 13. His breakthrough album ‘Halfway Tree’ won Marley his first Grammy in 2002. This was followed in 2005 by ‘Welcome to Jamrock’ which received two more Grammys and featured the massive single of the same name. In 2010 Marley released ‘Distant Relatives’, a collaborative album with the American Rapper Nas which confronted the plight of the people of Africa.

A. R. Rahman

A two-time winner of the Academy Award (Oscar), A. R. Rahman is popularly known as the man who has redefined contemporary Indian music. Hailed by Time magazine as the ‘Mozart of Madras’, Rahman, according to a BBC estimate, has sold more than 150 million copies of his work comprising of music from more than 100 film soundtracks and albums across over half a dozen languages, including landmark scores such as ‘Roja’, ‘Bombay’, Dil Se’, ‘Taal’, ‘Lagaan’, ‘Vandemataram’ and more recently, ‘Jodhaa Akbar’, ‘Delhi 6′ and ‘Slumdog Millionaire’.

The Art of SuperHeavy

The striking artwork that graces the front of the SuperHeavy album is the work of Shepard Fairey, the artist responsible for the iconic ‘Hope’ poster used in Barack Obama’s successful election campaign.

The Present and Future of SuperHeavy

The astonishing video for ‘Miracle Worker’ was filmed at Paramount studios in Los Angeles and directed by Paul Boyd and Dave Stewart. All five members of the band are featured in the video which culminates with a breathtaking live performance. Click here to watch the video for Miracle Worker on YouTube. As far as the future of SuperHeavy goes, “We haven’t planned to do a tour or anything, but if people really like it maybe we will. We’d love to get out and play some of it live,” says Jagger humbly. “As soon as we started playing together in the studio it gelled, and all these different styles didn’t seem to be a problem to make them fit together… I hope people will like it….“ SuperHeavy’s debut album is co-produced by Jagger & Stewart and will be released by Universal Music on their A&M label imprint on the 19th of September.

SuperHeavy debut single 'Miracle Worker' now available buy: http://bit.ly/pIPx7w
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