José González

José González was born in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1978. In 2003, he released his debut album Veneer , in Europe The album has since been released in the UK , on April 25, 2005, and in the United States on September 6, 2005. The song Crosses , from Crosses EP and the later Veneer appeared on the finale of the second season of the popular American television comedy drama The O.C. . His cover of Heartbeats (also from Veneer was used in a popular Sony BRAVIA TV commercial featuring coloured bouncing balls in San Francisco . His trademark sound is solo acoustic guitar with soft melody. His work, although mostly original, does include acoustic covers of great hits such as Love Will Tear Us Apart , Born in the U.S.A. , and Teardrop . José is one of three members of the band Junip José González also appears in the recent Zero 7 album The Garden , in which he sings on 3 new tracks and on a reworked version of Crosses . www.jose-gonzalez.com

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