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Biography
Jonas Bjerre Terkelsbøl (born 21 September 1976) is the lead singer of Danish rock band Mew. Jonas Bjerre is also a visual artist and creates animated videos for Mew's live shows. He has an unusually high pitched voice, which has helped contribute to Mew's unique sound, and earned him a Danish Music Award for Danish Male Singer in 2006. He went to school at the international school of Bernadotteskolen and was a student of Aurehøj Amtsgymnasium.
Jonas is also in a band called Apparatjik consisting of himself, Guy Berryman of Coldplay, Magne Furuholmen of A-ha and Martin Terefe. Apparatjik was originally formed to write and record a song for a charity album called Songs for Survival linked with the BBC Documentary called Amazon with Bruce Parry. Their contribution to the album became the main theme for the television series. Since then, Apparatjik have expanded into the field of art, exhibiting visual arts and performing inside a glass cube at various galleries and art festivals. In 2010 they released the album We Are Here via their official website, and later, in June 2010, through iTunes.
Outside of band constellations, Jonas has also recorded songs and written scores for films. In 2011, Bjerre-composed the soundtrack for the movie Skyscraper by Rune Schjøtt. The music was released on the album Songs and Music from the Movie Skyscraper.
Albums
With Mew
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEN | FIN | NOR | SWE | UK | JP | US | |||
| 1997 | A Triumph for Man
| 8 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2000 | Half the World Is Watching Me
| 34 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2003 | Frengers
| 2 | 36 | 6 | — | 102 | 77 | — |
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| 2005 | And the Glass Handed Kites
| 2 | 4 | 4 | 36 | 129 | 32 | — |
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| 2009 | No More Stories...1
| 1 | 2 | 2 | 41 | 110 | 42 | 130 |
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| 2015 | + -
| 1 | 9 | — | — | 59 | — | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | |||||||||
1 The name in its entirety is: No More Stories / Are Told Today / I'm Sorry / They Washed Away // No More Stories / The World Is Grey / I'm Tired / Let's Wash Away.
With Apparatjik
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK | NOR | IRL | ITA | NED | SWI | FRA | US | ||
| 2010 | We Are Here
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2012 | Square Peg in a Round Hole
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2012 | If You Can, Solve This Jumble (with Lowell)
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
As Jonas Bjerre, solo-project
Skyscraper (2011)