Jonathan Dwayne

Jonathan Dwayne is a musician, composer and painter who brought the idea of Art Rock to Puerto Rico. Born in 1963, he started out in the 1970s as John Dwayne Jimenez, competing for a place in the teen group La Pandilla, and in the 1980s sang lead and wrote for Words Four Two. The group's Somethin' in the Air became a hit that made Art Rock a rival to salsa and merengue, and Society Killed by Who followed. After the group broke up in 1991 he composed for other singers, including Ednita Nazario, for whom he wrote the Spanish version of Pocket and Metamorfosis; Un Corazon Hecho Pedazos brought his first gold record as a composer, and he has won a Tu Musica Award and honors from Billboard and ASCAP. He began acting in 2000 in the soap opera Hombres de Honor, has appeared in more than 20, and in 2004 his American stage debut came in Washington, D.C.