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J. Pink (birth name: Jonathan Raphael Pinkawa) (born 14, March 2004) is a German songwriter, producer, singer and artist. He plays several instruments, mainly the piano and the guitar.

Songwriting History

J. Pink was at the age of seven when he wrote his first song. However, the melody of this song only partly was his creation. Later on, he did several little compositions (piano only).

At the age of nine he wrote the first song (“Die Hochzeit, Die ist da!“) in wich, the first time, he wrote a whole song a hundred percent himself. The song was a gift for his Grandparents to their golden-wedding day.

J. Pink really started writing songs after he turned eleven. He realized, for his big dream, to become a rock star, he needed to have his own songs. His idea was to write a Minecraft song. That fore, he asked a friend to sing with him. This friend agreed. After several weeks this friend asked him about it again, whereupon J. Pink went home after school, immediately wrote a song (not about Minecraft after all) in under 30 minutes and went to his piano teacher to present his work. At this point, he still wrote in German. However because he preferred the sound of English vocals and wanted to reach as many people as possible, he put English lyrics in the chorus of his fifth composition. He continued though, to write completely in German until the same friend who J. Pink wanted to sing with before asked him to write in English. In an interview, he ones mentioned: „I tried to write in English but I was just missing the vocabulary back then. After I was sitting for one hour in my room, consistently typing into the translator app, I gave up on that song… Nah, it was a shitty song anyways… Yea, in the end the next two songs ended up being the last German songs I wrote until now!“

J. Pink said in the same interview: „I try to write at least one song a week, sometimes I write three songs in one day and sometimes I don’t write a single one in a whole month. It always depends on how I feel. Songs come and go. My job is it simply, to paint them as they pass… I try to use as many colors and detail as possible and still not make a giant mess!“

„Maybe no-one will ever care about my songs but that never mattered to me. I constantly write songs because it is what gives me purpose. It is just the greatest thing, I can think off, to do.“

Instrumental History

J. Pink started taking lessons at the violin at the age of three. J. Pink: „I’m pretty sure, I begged my mum to let me have lessons but I might remember wrong, I was still a three year old.“ Because of a bad teacher He quit after only a few months.

When he was four, he started taking lessons at the piano until today. As he said: „ I wanted be able to play the piano because of no other influence than just me being fascinated by watching someone’s fingers flying over the piano.“

„At least since grade one“ he wanted to play the drums very bad also. „I begged my parents so much, I really fell in love with this instrument. I can’t understand how it took me so many years to convince them to send me to drum lessons…“ As he said in an interview. His parents gave him a toy drum set for Christmas when he was in grade two. However, he destroyed it after a few weeks due to his enthusiasm. In addition, to Christmas one year later his parents gave him a real drum set wich he uses until today. J. Pink also went to drum lessons from grade four until now.

J. Pink also knows how to play the accordion. After finding the old accordion of his grandparents neighbors dead husband and being very obsessed with it, the dear lady gave it to him.

Later on, his great uncle taught him the basics.

The next instrument is one, he taught himself. After kidnapping an old guitar laying around at his grandparents place, he spend a few minutes in a room and taught himself some chords. A few years later, he hired a guitar teacher.

J. Pink went to vocal lessons, during grade eight. After this year his singing teacher did not teach anymore at this school.

His singing teacher told him about a teacher where he could learn the skill of recording, producing and editing music. This teacher taught him 15 lessons until he turned around 14.

J. Pink also went to a sound engineering class in a Canadian High-School.

Being back from Canada, he continued to meet his piano teacher and hired a new singing teacher.

Now he started an apprenticeship at the catholic church for the organ.

Releases

J. Pink produced his first album by himself at the age of 12. From then on, he continued producing several albums.

The first music he published was „Peace On Earth“, „Stay Here“ and „Life“. He did this on his YouTube-Channel. He even filmed music videos for those.

However, the first thing that went public on all streaming services was his Album "Freedom" which was published the 16th, July 2019.

Only five months later (10th, December 2019), he released his first Christmas single "Christmas With You".

His latest and his most successful release is the album „Music In Spam“ (released 16th, September 2020).


 * J. Pink on Spotify
 * J. Pink on Apple-Music
 * J. Pink on YouTube-Music
 * J. Pink on Amazon-Music
 * J. Pink on YouTube (for free)


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information from an interview with J. Pink