Jaimi Faulkner 
 Biography Mix great song-writing, incredible guitar playing, a warm soulful voice and irresistible live performance and you’ll get Jaimi Faulkner, a young multi-talented Australian. With just his guitar, a stomp box and his voice, Faulkner mixes different musical styles and creates one that is uniquely his own. As a child, brought up on a diet rich in Blues, Country, Soul and Folk music Faulkner learned to play guitar on his father’s old beaten up nylon string guitar. In his teens, Faulkner started to write his own songs and combined his interest in pop music with influences from his childhood. At the age of 21 he released his first cd ‘Last Light’ which debuted No. 5 on the Australian Rhythms Magazine Charts where it held its position for four months. Music agents in Australia noticed his talent and invited him to support the late Chris Whitley in 2005. With the success of ‘Last Light,’ still fresh, Jaimi hit both international and local highways, playing more than 200 shows a year. These included performances at the American Juke Joint Festival in Clarksdale, Mississippi, playing with the legendary Big Jack Johnson. In 2008, Jaimi won the prestigious Australian Blues/Roots Performer Of The Year Award and was awarded the opportunity to represent Australia at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee. Back home his reputation continued to rise with further invitations to support Chris Isaak and Jeff Martin (The Tea Party) on their Australian Tours. In 2009, after returning for the U.S, Jaimi recorded and released his second studio album, ‘Kiss & Ride’. Folk, Blues and Soul influences feature heavily on this album and early in 2010, Jaimi was awarded Song Of The Year at Australia’s prestigious M.B.A.S. awards night, for his single ‘Highway Life’ that featured on his album Kiss & Ride. With just one suitcase and his trusty Maton acoustic guitar by his side, Jaimi relocated from his hometown of Melbourne to the bursting arts hub of Berlin. Having secured a Dutch and German booking agent, Jaimi left his Australian band behind, he hit the road alone, performing as a solo artist and by the end of 2010, had performed in many German and Dutch venues, begun to appeared on Dutch national radio and opened for The Holmes Brothers, Tom Dice, Rory Block, Tina Dico, Guy Forsyth and many others. Faulkner continued his rigorous touring schedule in 2011, performing at big festivals, sharing sold out stages along side famous Dutch soul singer Waylon and British singer-songwriter Jon Allen, as well as two big German-Austria tours opening for Eighties Pop royalty Paul Young, and later that year for U.S Singer Vonda Shepard (Ally McBeal). Faulker’s live performance and growing reputation was recognised by respected music magazine OOR ‘Who ever sees Faulkner on stage is immediately sold. Faulkner is going to be big’. In 2012, although performing more than 120 shows in Germany and The Netherlands, Faulkner used his time off from touring to record his third and long awaited studio album. This would be his first European release and he wanted to get it just right. The result of a lot of hard work is Turn Me Around. Turn Me Around is an honest album that deals with themes of love, loss, and new beginnings, themes that Faulkner continued to deal with as he established himself in not only a new country but also a new musical scene. The album features a plethora of musicians and was recorded predominantly Berlin with two additional tracks engineered and produced by famous Dutch producer Eric Van Tijn in Amsterdam. Released on V2 Records in the Benelux in May 2013, Turn Me Around was very well received in The Netherlands where it debut on the Dutch Alternative music charts at number 1 and the overall music charts at number 33. On the back of the albums success, Faulkner was invited to perform on national Radio 1, Radio 2, Radio 6 and even national TV, RTL 4’s Koffietijd. The most prestigious of invitations coming from famous 3FM DJ Giel Beelen who invited Faulkner to perform his song In My Fathers Boots during drive time to over 1,000,000 listeners. Giel declaring on the show ‘Oh man, I love your sound… What fantastic guitar playing, what a magnificent voice… Brilliant, that was great man’ Faulkner then went on to release Turn Me Around in German on January 17th 2014. One week later Faulkner kicked off a National tour in his new home town of Berlin, Germany. The tour included National radio placement on Radio 1 as well as performances on National TV. Faulkner is now touring throughout Europe.