Jonny Greenwood

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jonny Greenwood
Occupation	Guitarist
Date Of Birth	Nov 5, 1971(1971-11-05)
Age	53
Birthplace	Oxford
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Scorpio

Jonny Greenwood Biography

Jonny Greenwood is one of the most popular and richest Guitarist who was born on November 5, 1971 in Oxford, England, United Kingdom. Multi-instrumentalist and composer who played lead guitar for the rock band Radiohead. He also worked as composer-in-residence for the BBC Concert Orchestra.

He composed the music for There Will Be Blood, which was nominated for an Oscar. The film starred He composed the soundtrack to There Will Be Blood, an Oscar-nominated film starring Daniel Day Lewis..

Jonny Greenwood was born on 5 November 1971 in Oxford, England. His brother, Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood, is two years older. His father served in the army as a bomb-disposal expert. When he was a child, Greenwood’s family would listen to a small number of cassettes in their car, including Mozart’s horn concertos, the musicals Flower Drum Song and My Fair Lady, and cover versions of Simon and Garfunkel songs. When the cassettes were not playing, Greenwood would listen to the noise of the engine and try to recall every detail of the music. He credited his older siblings with exposing him to rock bands such as the Beat and New Order. The first gig Greenwood attended was the Fall on their 1988 Frenz Experiment tour, which he found “overwhelming”.

Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood (born 5 November 1971) is an English musician and composer. He is the lead guitarist and keyboardist of the alternative rock band Radiohead, and has written a number of film scores.

He got married to Sharona Katan in 1995; they had three children: Tamir, Omri, and Zohar.

Jonny Greenwood Net Worth

Jonny Greenwood is one of the richest Guitarist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jonny Greenwood 's net worth $30 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

They and Radiohead (known then as Friday) signed their first record agreement with EMI in the year 1991.

The brother of his, Colin had also been an artist in Radiohead.

For his film soundtracks, Greenwood attempts to keep the instrumentation contemporary to the period of the story; for example, he recorded the Norwegian Wood soundtrack using a 1960s Japanese nylon-strung guitar and recorded it with period home recording equipment, attempting to create a recording that one of the characters might have made. Many of his compositions are microtonal.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Jonny Greenwood height 5 ft 11 in Jonny weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Jonny Greenwood Dating?

According to our records, Jonny Greenwood married to Sharona Katan. As of December 1, 2023, Jonny Greenwood’s is not dating anyone.

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Greenwood is married to Israeli visual artist Sharona Katan, whom he met in 1993 when Radiohead performed in Israel. Her work (credited as Shin Katan) appears on the covers of Greenwood’s Bodysong and There Will be Blood soundtracks. Their first son, Tamir, was born in 2002; the album Radiohead released the following year, Hail to the Thief, was dedicated to him. Their daughter, Omri, was born in 2005, and a second son, Zohar, was born in February 2008. Katan said she considered themselves a Jewish family: “Our kids are raised as Jews, we have a mezuzah in our house, we sometimes have Shabbos dinners, we celebrate Jewish holidays. The kids don’t eat pork. It’s important to me to keep this stuff.”

Facts & Trivia

Jonny Ranked on the list of most popular Guitarist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Jonny Greenwood celebrates birthday on November 5 of every year.

Radiohead’s fourth and fifth albums, Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001), recorded simultaneously, marked a dramatic change in sound, incorporating influences from electronica, classical music, jazz and krautrock. Greenwood employed a modular synthesiser to build the drum machine rhythm of “Idioteque”, and played ondes Martenot, an early synthesiser similar to a theremin. He composed a string arrangement for the track “How to Disappear Completely” by multitracking his ondes Martenot playing. According to longtime Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, when the orchestra musicians saw Greenwood’s score “they all just sort of burst into giggles, because they couldn’t do what he’d written, because it was impossible—or impossible for them, anyway”. The orchestra leader John Lubbock encouraged the musicians to experiment and work with Greenwood’s “naive” ideas.

Is Jonny Greenwood a good guitarist?

Greenwood was named the 48th greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone. A multi-instrumentalist, he also uses instruments including the bass guitar, piano, viola, and drums, and is a prominent player of the ondes Martenot, an early electronic instrument.

Does Jonny Greenwood know music theory?

“There have always been bits of orchestration in Radiohead,” he acknowledges. “ It’s always been good to have the knowledge of music theory and I’ve used it all the time.

Who is the best guitarist in Radiohead?

Jonny Greenwood might be best known as the lead guitarist in British band Radiohead, but in recent years he’s made quite the splash in the film music world, composing some of the best movie scores – with Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations to his name.

Why does Jonny Greenwood wear an arm brace?

In 1996, due to his aggressive guitar playing, Jonny began to feel pain in his arm, and so a doctor prescribed him the brace. This was also the same time that he had to wear those massive ear protectors. “It’s conceited to deny there’s any affection, but having said that, I enjoy putting on the arm brace before I play.

What kind of guitar does Johnny Greenwood play?

As far as his gear goes, Jonny’s known for using Fender Telecaster Plus guitars almost exclusively. These guitars are equipped with Lace Sensor Blue and Red pickups, and the coil-split switch is modified to work as a signal kill-switch, leaving the two single-coil Reds to work as a humbucker.