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Mojo Juju

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Years active
  
2005 - present

Origin
  
Dubbo, Australia

Music director
  
bestefreunde

Website
  
mojojuju.net

Record label
  
ABC Music

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Labels
  
ABC Music P-Vine Records Off Label Records

Associated acts
  
Mojo Juju & The Snake Oil Merchants Ergo B. Bag and His All Action All Stars The Cactus Chanel Ptero Stylus Clairy Browne & The Bangin' Rackettes

Albums
  
Seeing Red / Feeling Blue, Sellin' You Salvation, Mojo Juju, Anthology

Genres
  
Blues, Soul music, Rhythm and blues, Pop music, Alternative rock

Similar
  
Emma Donovan, Ella Hooper, The Snowdroppers, Stella Angelico, Sahara Beck

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Mojo ‘Juju’ Ruiz de Luzuriaga (born 1983) is an Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Biography

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Prior to her solo career, Mojo Juju fronted a band called ‘Mojo Juju & The Snake Oil Merchants’ from 2006 until 2010. The band released two independent albums, Mojo Juju & The Snake Oil Merchants (2007) and Sellin’ You Salvation (2009).

Mojo Juju released her eponymous debut solo album in 2012, on ABC Music. It was also released in Japan by P-Vine Records.

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Her second solo album, Seeing Red/Feeling Blue, was released in 2015. The album featured Hip-Hop producer Ptero Stylus at the helm. Following the release of the album, she was nominated in The Age/Music Victoria Awards for Best Female Artist, with Seeing Red/Feeling Blue nominated for Best Soul/RnB album.

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A compilation of earlier material, Mojo Juju & The Snake Oil Merchants - Anthology, was released in 2015 on European label Off-Label Records. This coincided with the release of German film Bestefreunde. The film soundtrack was composed entirely of songs from Mojo's back catalogue.

Mojo Juju's live shows feature a revolving line up of backing musicians. Her most consistent collaborator and band-mate is her real life brother Steven Ruiz de Luzuriaga (drum kit). Mojo's current full band ensemble also features her brother, along with Darcy McNulty (Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes) on Baritone Sax, and several members of Melbourne based Instrumental Soul group The Cactus Channel (Lewis Coleman on keys, Henry Jenkins on bass, and occasionally Hudson Whitlock on drums/percussion).

She has toured with Tony Joe White (USA), Kitty, Daisy & Lewis (UK), Pink Martini (USA), Imelda May (UK), Reverend Horton Heat (USA), Nick Waterhouse (USA), and has also performed alongside Australian artists including C.W. Stoneking, Clairy Browne & The Bangin' Rackettes, Hiatus Kaiyote, Ella Hooper, Harry Angus, Emma Donovan and more.

Her music has been featured in a number of television shows including Underbelly: Razor, Underbelly: Squizzy and Roadtrip Nation.

Albums

  • Mojo Juju (2012) (ABC Music) / (P-Vine Records, Japan Only)
  • Seeing Red/Feeling Blue (2015) (ABC Music)

    • Singles

  • Horse Named Regret (2011) (Independent)
  • Must be Desire (2012) (ABC Music)
  • Psycho (2013) (Written by Leon Payne) (ABC Music)
  • A Heart Is Not A Yo-yo (2014) (ABC Music)
  • They Come & They Go (2015) (ABC Music)

    • Songs

    Must Be DesireMojo Juju · 2012
    They Come & They GoSeeing Red / Feeling Blue · 2015
    Pony Takes A PowderMojo Juju · 2012

    References

    Mojo Juju Wikipedia
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