Jas Mann

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Jas Mann (born Jasbinder Mann, 24 April 1971, Dudley, West Midlands, England) is a British film maker, musician and record label owner.

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[edit] Early life

Jas Mann is of Indian descent - his parents are originally from the Punjab. The Mann family are classed as Sikh by birth. Although born in Dudley, Jas Mann grew up in Wolverhampton. His final years of state education were undertaken at Pendeford High School, where he developed a passion for music. He formed his first band at the age of 15 with friend Adam Toussaint called The Glove Puppets, and personally funded a 7" vinyl single, sold through local record shops in 1987.

The Sandkings, another Wolverhampton band with a strong following, were keen to sign Mann as their vocalist, and he joined them in 1990. The Sandkings, named after a 1981 collection of sci-fi short stories by George R. R. Martin (called Sandkings), released five singles with Mann between 1989 and 1992, and an album. They were moderately successful, scoring three Top 10 hits in the UK indie single chart.

They were the opening act for The Happy Mondays and The Stone Roses in the early 1990s, but Mann left the band in 1992 because of creative differences.

[edit] Babylon Zoo

See Babylon Zoo

[edit] After "Spaceman"

In 1997, Mann (along with other UK celebrity figures) was unwittingly caught out by Brass Eye, a UK television series of satirical spoof documentaries, which aired on Channel 4. He appeared in the "Drugs" episode, in a non-drug-related credit sequence roll. He stated that he had never "written a spherical song", and agreed with Morris' assertion that he might have a few more genes than normal people. He was introduced as "the man who was totally Babylon Zoo, The Chungwit, the biff-boff and the puff pastry hangman," and responded when asked if he was a genius, "I will become a genius."

After three UK Top Forty singles, Mann decided to step out of the limelight. In late 1999, he moved to Chandigarh, India and spent time in ashrams working as an aid worker helping build shelters for deprived areas.

Mann also wrote the theme music for Channel 4's Speedway Grand Prix programme, screened on Saturday mornings throughout the speedway season (2000/01).

In 1997, Mann moved to Myddle, Shropshire and claimed he would never want to live anywhere else "regardless of how rich or successful I may become and despite extensive world-wide travel to promote my music" (The Guardian - Live Review. March 12th 1999). In 2006, Mann moved to the Mojave Desert as the solitude "enhances creativity and calms my whirling mind" (Mail on Sunday, May 19 2006).

Mann co-owned a record company, Hub Records, and released three songs under the name of Mariachi Static in 2003. In 2005, he announced he would be issuing a new Babylon Zoo album, Cold Clockwork Doll, although this has yet to be released.

In 2000, Mann who started out as a visual artist, returned to writing and producing visual art.

In 2002, he moved to Los Angeles, where he has been writing film scripts and working with the likes of Cuba Gooding Jr. and Stephen Dorff. He shall be releasing his first feature film The Whisperers in 2009.[citation needed]

Mann started his film company Immortal Features in 2006. The company plans to produce and develop feature film projects.

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