- Height6′ 2″ (1.88 m)
- Johnny Jewel (born John Padgett) is an American record producer, composer, and visual artist. He is a multi-instrumentalist who is known for using all-analog equipment. He has been recording and releasing records since the mid-1990s.
Jewel owns and operates his own record label called Italians Do It Better. He is a member of multiple bands on the label, including Glass Candy (along with vocalist Ida No ), Chromatics (along with Ruth Radelet , Adam Miller and Nat Walker), Desire (with Megan Louise and Nat Walker), and Symmetry (with Nat Walker). Jewel also occasionally collaborates with artists Farah, Mirage, Twisted Wires and Appaloosa.
As a composer, Jewel is widely known for his contributions to the films Bronson (2008) and Drive (2011), as well as the A&E crime drama series Those Who Kill (2014). He also scored actor Ryan Gosling's 2015 directorial debut, Lost River (2014), and Fien Troch's 2016 film Home, for which he won the Georges Delerue Award. Along with Chromatics , his works has been featured in David Lynch 's series Twin Peaks (2017) , specifically his pieces "Windswept" and "Slow Dreams".
In December 2014, Jewel released the 31-minute, seven-movement song "The Other Side of Midnight".- IMDb Mini Biography By: Wikipedia
- [on first meeting Ryan Gosling] He started coming to Chromatics and Glass Candy shows in L.A. around 2007. Somebody saw him. He seems to be pretty shy, so he wasn't coming up and talking to us. I finally met him in 2010. When all of the Drive (2011)people were out in L.A. and they were about to start shooting there was a Chromatics and Glass Candy show, and they came. I met him and didn't even know who he was.
- [on running his own record label] Fortunately, because I run my own label I can do things as I see fit. Some people may be annoyed by that, and I apologize. It's not to be an elitist or a snob, I just don't like advertisements for art. That's something I feel really strongly about. I'm not trying to trick anybody into liking us or listening to us. We do it because we love it.
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