Juno Roxas

Life and career

Roxas was one of the founding members of Metal music band, Roxus, together with Dragan Stanic (guitar), John 'Stones' Nixon (bass), Darren Danielson (drums) and Andy Shanahan (keyboards). The band had been playing Van Halen and Living Colour styled rock around Sydney since 1987, but it was as a support act to Poison and Bon Jovi during their respective Australian tours in 1989 that first brought the band to public attention. Ian "Molly" Meldrum signed the band to Melodian (through Mushroom) and issued two singles in 1989: "Stand Back" and "Body Heat." In 1990, Roxus released a live EP, That Girl,

In April 1991, Roxus supported Warrant during their Australian tour, which was followed by the release of their debut full-length album, Nightstreet. The album reached number five on the Australian national charts, while the single "Where Are You Now?" peaked at number thirteen on the national singles charts in July 1991 and number eleven on the AMR charts.

While co-starring in the 1989 Australian, AFI award nominated feature film, Mull, Juno was also vocally active on the Film soundtrack, recording versions of "The Wanderer", "Jingle Bell Rock" and Free's "All Right Now" as well as an acoustic ballad penned by Chris Langford and Ron Martini of Dear Enemy fame. The soundtrack was never released.

In 1998 Roxas appeared on the Mushroom Records 25th anniversary album, Mushroom 25 Live: The Concert of the Century, and played the accompanying concert performing "Where Are You Now?".

Roxas now lives on the West Coast of the United States and works as a producer and songwriter.

In 2006 Roxas performed with the Pat Cash All Star Band at the Australian Tennis Open.

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