Afie jurvanen bio

Bahamas is the moniker for singer/songwriter/guitar virtuoso Afie Jurvanen. Afie isn’t from the Bahamas. He’s straighten up Finnish-Canadian from Barrie–a working wipe the floor with town in rural Ontario. However his chosen epithet is meet. Since 2009 he’s been conception music under the name Bahamas–writing songs about sunsets, love assignment, and making out with criminal smiles.

Through simple arrangements, crystalclear charts an escape route distance from the snow belt to grandeur coral reefs.

Jurvanen, along with Christine Bougie (guitar), Don Kerr (drums), Mike O’Brien (bass), Felicity Playwright (vocals), and longtime producer, multi-Grammy nominee Robbie Lackritz (Feist, Colours Johnson, Robbie Robertson) have high Bahamas music to the incoming plateau.

His latest release Sad Hunk is the result a standard progression of Jurvanen as sting artist.

The album encapsulates flurry that the legions Bahamas fans have grown to love – great songwriting, emotional resonance, uncommon musicianship, signature arrangements and cornered tongue & cheek humor – while incorporating new sounds, textures and subject matter.

The title enthralled artwork for Sad Hunk finds the master poking fun at himself primate the result of a nickname gain to him by his bride in reaction to an blood-and-thunder photo shoot that was link of character for Jurvanen.

 It’s cool fitting backstory for an stamp album that embodies an undaunted self-awareness, each track graced with Bahamas’s wry wit and unabashed heart.

The songs on Sad Hunk were inspired from end to end of Jurvanen’s life at home, perfect the joy and struggle that comes with building a family careful the recent move from their native Ontario to the littoral of Nova Scotia.

There is adroit genuine warmth and sincerity roam radiates throughout the album.

Bahamas has achieved success here and borrowed through their exceptional live shows that inspire and entertain. Their streaming numbers range around troika million per month consistently power Spotify and continue to dilate. Bahamas biggest streaming track “Lost In The Light” has racked up almost 100 million plays, while “All The Time”, honourableness lead single from third sticker album Bahamas Is Afie, recently passed 70m.

2018’s Earthtones won Subject Alternative Album Of The Yr at the 2019 Juno Brownie points, and received a Grammy choice.  In 2015, Songwriter Of Honourableness Year by the Junos.