Artist:Joel Jackson

Joel Jackson is an Australian singer/songwriter and actor. Raised in the dust and heat of the Pilbara, Joel grew up playing to rough and rowdy mining pubs in the town of Karratha. But that didn't make him shy, he just got louder. At age 16 Joel was supporting Australian music giants like Daryl Braithwaite, Jon Stevens, Diesel, Russell Morris, WA legend's Birds Of Tokyo, surf rockers The Beautiful Girls and many more as they toured the North West of Australia. When Joel was 17 though he left his small town for the sprawl of Brazil, where he spent a year as an exchange student and fell in love with the heavy handed acoustic guitar skills of Seu Jorge. Upon arriving home Joel's energetically electric sets grew, as did his songwriting ability. Joel's mining protest song, "Home Wanted", made it's way to ABC Radio National and won him a selection into the HeyWire program, an ABC initiative, to perform at Parliament House to the then Minister for Education and ultimate king of protest, ...