B I O

Jimi Anderson

Born In Rigside, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Jimi's first Rock band was in 1978, singing mainly Rush & Deep Purple songs & so his passion for 'Classic Rock' had begun.

The next few years brought many hours of practise & to Paul Rogers, David Coverdale & Ronnie James Dio for Inspiration.

He began writing songs and formed the Rock band 'Sahara' whilst spending any spare time attending a gazzillion gigs at the Legendary 'Glasgow Apollo' till it closed in 1985.

Various incarnations of the band ensued including a name change to "The Hardline" until they were picked up by 'Wet Wet Wet's manager Elliott Davis and offered a management contract on the strength of a Demo Tape.

Showcasing his phenomenal voice, 5 years of recording demo's, touring, notable sell out gigs at Glasgow's King Tut's, London's 'Borderline Club' and a support to Wet Wet Wet in front of 30,000 people at Glasgow Green.

Jimi continued writing, performing and recording, appearing on Michael Barrymore's National Television shows ' My Kind of People' & 'Barrymore' in 1997/98 and went on to sing at concerts & festivals in Cyprus, Romania, Turkey and Holland

Living now in York, Jimi has continued writing.

Jimi moved on to spend four years as Lead vocalist with Tribute Band 'A Foreigners Journey' he toured extensively in the UK and Rhodes. Meeting new friends along the way, and his voice just got better and better so a decision was made to leave "A Foreigners Journey" and the next adventure started.

His latest side project is a tribute to great American Melodic Rock with some great musicians and friends "Legends of AOR" debut gig was in Spain in front of a crowd of Rhodes Rockers, safe to say it was so emotional that tears were shed. The Festival has now moved to Cyprus where ‘Legends of AOR’ have performed for the last 3 years

In 2015 Jimi finally realised his dream & released an album of original songs recorded at FML studios in Motherwell, Scotland with Producer/Engineer/Musicians Sandy Jones and Greame Duffin and over the last 4 years has taken his music on the road up & down the UK and so the Jimi Anderson Group was born. The Album Titled ‘Longtime Comin’ featuring tracks Let’s Get Serious, Where do We go from Here & Higher than Higher is a fusion of Classic melodic pop rock and AOR and the original tunes that showcase Jimi’s voice perfectly.

This Year 2019 Jimi is releasing the follow up Album to ‘Longtime Comin’ which is Called ‘I Belong’. Like it’s predecessor ‘I Belong’ was recorded at FML once again with Sandy Jones at the helm. Once again the bulk of the music was recorded by Jimi, Sandy & Greame. This time however ace guitarist ‘David Cuthbert’ Features on quite a few of the tracks namely tracks such as catchy ‘Wonderful Tokyo Nights’, ‘Fearless Warrior’ & ‘I’m A Believer’ to name a few, including the beautiful ballad title track, ‘I Belong’.

This is a worthy second album which will hopefully secure & build on the JAG loyal fanbase built up over the past few years. For more about Listen, listen to his music It says it all.