John Prior
- January 10, 2024
- Musician
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John Prior Biography
| Name | John Prior |
| Birthday | Jul 22 |
| Birth Year | 1960 |
| Home Town | Sydney |
| Birth Country | Australia |
| Birth Sign | Cancer |
John Prior is one of the most popular and richest Musician who was born on July 22, 1960 in Sydney, Australia. Prior began playing guitar at age 8 and drums when he was 11, vibraphone at 17, and piano at the age of 24. As a teenager performing, he was in the band Mandrake and later Legend along with his the brother Rob Prior (guitar/vocals) and the neighbor Paul Williams (bass guitar) at The Kirribilli Hotel, the Mosman Spastic Centre and Sydney Boys High School. The addition of keyboardist Chris Short and the name changed into Conic Section, they composed original jazz-rock fusionand performing in The Limerick Castle Hotel and won the Festival Of Pop band competition at Flemington Sydney in 1974 and the 2SM song contest in the year 1975. The group TAPP consisting of John Rob Prior and Rob Prior, Peter Astley (bass guitar), Geoff Taylor (keyboards) and Peter Noakes (vocals) recorded at Wirra Willa Studios, Glenfield Park.
As of 1985 Prior went in 1985 to London as well as Brussels in order to make the Matt Moffitt solo album By As Little As A Look with producer Nicky Graham (David Bowie, CBS A&R Manager). While in London, he continued his studies in the piano, music theory and Peter Sanders (London Symphony Orchestra) and electronic music, using synthesizers, computers as well as samplers in CBS Studios London and Fairlight CMI’s studios in Sydney.
In 1990, Moffitt and Prior reformed Matt Finish with former Eurogliders members Guy Le Claire (guitar) and Lindsay Jehan (bass) and New Yorker Jennifer Barrett (guitar). Managed and promoted by Prior, the band completed their most successful tour to date including fifty sold-out performances around Australia. The band recorded four songs at Studios 301 and Bondi Road Studios that were released in 2009 on the album Kite on a Hurricane Day.
In 1992, he formed Mammal Music production company, incorporated in 1994, and built Unity Gain Studios audio and video production facilities in Erskineville in 1997.
Matt Finish released Matt Finish Play Africa (single 1980), Short Note (album 1981), Fade Away (EP 1981), Matt Finish (EP 1983), Word of Mouth (album 1983) as well as a myriad of singles. Matt Finish’s Short Note album was re-released in 1989 on CD and remains available at music stores.
John Prior Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Musician |
| House | Living in own house. |
John Prior is one of the richest Musician from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, John Prior 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
On November 19, 1979 just a few months after the formation 2JJ, a Radio station 2JJ broadcast Matt Finish live-to-air from the Civic Hotel in Pitt Street, Sydney and continued to broadcast the live performances for the next year.
Prior formed the band in 1979. Prior was formed in 1979 as Matt Finish together with guitarist and singer Matt Moffitt and through to the late seventies, they would play regular gigs in bars and clubs throughout Sydney each Friday night and often played on weekends.
In 1989, Prior travelled to New York to produce Matt Moffitt and Jennifer Barrett and perform percussion with Pacific Orchestra
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In 2003 he produced Leave Nothing Untouched with dance troupe Astral Taxi and composed 20 albums of commercial library music that continue to appear in soundtracks around the world.
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John Ranked on the list of most popular Musician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. John Prior celebrates birthday on July 22 of every year.
In 2005 he produced jazz vocalist Jennifer Whatson’s debut self-titled album and composed an orchestral score for New Theatre’s production of the Spike Milligan play Badjelly the Witch, which ran in January 2006 and January 2007.