User:Jonnilightfoot/sandbox

Biography
Jonni Lightfoot was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1973 and had a normal childhood. Playing sports, riding three-wheelers, and spending time with his friends and family. Jonni is the youngest of three children, all three of which are musically inclined. Jonni's Grand Father Alvin Lightfoot was also musically inclined and was a multi instrument (Like Jonni) musician who used to play square dances and at movies during the Great Depression. Jonni discovered music at the age of 8 years old when he went over to friends house and found all of his friends over there talking about starting a band. Jonni Said "i wanna be in a band" and his friends said "Great" we need a bass player, Jonni's response was "I'll do it....whats a bass"? He went back home and talked with his parents and they took him to the music store and Jonni got his first bass. The banded turned out to only be a trio with guitar Lane Mcness, bass] Jonni Lightfoot, and [[drums and vocals David Hurst. The band was called "Night Light" but went trough several other names before finally settling on the name "Transit".

Jonni Lightfoot was a pupil of Matthew Loel T Hepworth and took lessons for 4 years before he continued his music education on his own learning guitar, piano, drum programing, and recording. Jonni performed in and out of a lot of different cover bands before he join Skit Skat in 1991. Jonni played lead guitar in Skit Skat and also started working on his song writing skills. Jonni left Skit Skat in 1993. He moved back to bass and started playing with an original band Honest Engine. He toured through Utah, Idaho, and Los Angeles and perform at the world famous Whiskey a go go. Skit Skat Signed with FnA Records in 2014 and released and there first CD "Then and Now".

In 2001 Jonni joined the 80's Super Group Air Supply. Jonni has toured a over the planet and played in about 80 different countries. He has performed to 90,000 people in Nanning, China and also played to 175,000 people in Cuba. Air Supply was the second Western act to have every played Cuba the first being Audio Slave who also played the same venue having 60,000 people in attendance. Jonni has recorded on nine of Air Supply / Graham Russell's recordings including three live DVD's"....it was 30 years ago Today", "LIVE in Jerusalem", and "LIVE in Hong Kong". In 2005 the band won a Mexician Luna award and in 2009 an Asian Pacific Grammy.

In 2008 Jonni teamed up with Singer Tony Harnell TNT / Skid Row and joined the band Starbreaker on Frontiers Records which is made up of Tony Harnell vocals, Magnus Karlsson guitar, and John Macaluso drums. They released the record "Loves Dying Wish" in 2009.

Jonni Teamed up with Singer Desi REXX (D'molls) and started the band "REXX". they have been writing and recording and are about to release their Debut Record in 2016. The band currently has Desi Rexx (Vocals and Guitar), Jonni Lightfoot (Bass and Vocals), Brian "Damage" Forsythe (Lead Guitar), and Blas Elias (Drums).

Jonni has released 4 solo CD's 1996 "Copper Street Fair", 2001 "Pendulum", 2006 "BLU", and 2014 "LIVE at Gino's". He continues to write and record and will release his fifth solo record "My Favorites VOL.1" in late 2015. He is currently living in Salt Lake City, Utah and is touring with Air Supply performing about 200 shows a year.