Justin Adams

Justin Adams
Biography

Justin Adams is an English guitarist and composer. He is best known for Kin (2000), Burning Men (2019).

“Justin Adams is considered one of U.K.’s most original guitarists. His music today is strongly influenced by his early childhood exposure to Arab music. His father was a British diplomat in Jordan and Egypt, and the sounds of the time have stayed with Justin. Over the years he has experimented with a variety of musical instruments and managed to blend the different sounds successfully. This has made him an expert in his field.
When he started out with a commercially unsuccessful little pop band known as The Impossible Dream, little did he know where it would lead. He started by investing in small things like scales and was interested in experimenting by mixing different types of music, but at the time no one in England had any interest in such things.
It wasn’t until the late 1980’s, when Justin met Jah Wobble that his guitar playing abilities were noticed by the public at large. During the eight-year partnership with Jah Wobble, Justin’s intuitive music style blended Arabic an African elements. The time was right and the public accepted him willingly. In addition to the Mercury Prize nomination album ‘Rising above Bedlam’, Justin co-wrote two other albums during this time and performed in a number of tours. This partnership was very rewarding both financially and in terms of education in the field of music. After the parting of ways with Wobble around 1996, Justin did work with various artists. He made an album with the Algerian singer Abdel Ali Slimani, and toured and recorded with Sinead O’Connor.”

Bio from http://justinadams.co.uk/