Opposites attract.
When Nico and Daniel saw each other in a park near Stuttgart for the first time in 2014, they were both freshly out of their teenage years.
They were two characters who couldn’t have been more different...
One young man's Christian upbringing and a sheltered childhood full of great success clashing with the other's emotional disappointment due to his parents’ early divorce. Bourgeois life meets a struggle for survival. Diversity meets deep sadness.
While one had an untroubled childhood, the other lived through seeing a friend die right in front of him at 14 years of age when he was hit by an oncoming train. He suddenly started to stutter after that, suffering years of bullying at school because of it. He borrowed money from his grandmother, bought a guitar, and taught himself how to play at home in his room. Plagued by self-doubt, he founded one metal band after another, dissolving them again every time in discontent.
The other had lots of opportunities to develop his musical skills, making it to the national finals of “Jugend musiziert” more than once in music schools and performance classes. But he rebelled as well by not only studying the classical music and playing the church concerts his parents valued, but also using his first computer to program loud, monotone electronic music.
When the two met Alex Kilb in 2014, who would later become their partner, they decided to found “Juno im Park.”
As they wrote music together, they understood: They didn’t want to be tied down anymore!
Since then there have been no limits for Juno im Park - neither musically nor linguistically - no jury, no narrow categories, no condemnation, no initiation, and no restrictions ... There’s just music.
The two got their start as a duo in the music business in 2016 with a cover version of Rick Astley's classic “Never Gonna Give You Up” in collaboration with YouTube star Hannah Trigwell, which came out with Universal Music. Remix requests followed, among others from Kelvin Jones and Nico Santos. Before that, they'd been hired for a collaboration between three ‘90s trance stars Ayla, York, and Taucher to sing on their single “Free Yourself.”
The band will put out their debut album in summer of 2018, which will include both English and a few German songs.
“Jungle,” the band's first self-composed single, will be coming out in January and focusing on themes of dichotomy. “Jungle is also synonymous with acceleration and with a drive to change your everyday priorities. In terms of feeling
and emotion, it's on par with anything on the German music market today.”
