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| Birth name | Jonas Rocket DeLonge |
| Born | August 16, 2006 Los Angeles, California, United States |
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| Years active | 2018-present |
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| Associated acts | Blink +41 |
Jonas Rocket DeLonge (born August 16, 2006) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, author, record producer, actor and filmmaker. Possessing a distinctive nasal singing voice, he is the co-lead vocalist, guitarist, and co-founder of the rock band Blink +41 from its formation in 2018.
Biography[]
Early life[]
DeLonge was born in Los Angeles, California to Tom DeLonge and Jennifer DeLonge. His father is of English, French-Canadian, German, Greek, Irish, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Scottish, Swedish, Swiss and Welsh descent and His mother is of Chinese, Cornish, Dutch, English, Filipino, German, Northern Irish (Scotch-Irish), Portuguese, Puerto Rican, Scottish, Spanish, Taíno and Welsh descent. He has an older sister Ava DeLonge.
Music career[]
Blink +41[]
Musical style[]
Inspirations[]
DeLonge outlined six musical acts that impacted his growth as a musician, among them Stiff Little Fingers, U2, Depeche Mode, New Order, Fugazi, and the Descendents. Following the Descendents, DeLonge once cited Screeching Weasel as the second biggest influence on his songwriting in his early career.
Equipment[]
DeLonge's early guitar tone was described as "clean to crisply overdriven." During those years, he tended to use Fender Custom Shop Stratocasters (and still occasionally uses in studio recordings), and his own Fender Tom DeLonge Stratocaster, with Seymour Duncan Invader pickups, Ernie Ball strings, Dunlop tortex picks, and a Whirlwind Selector A/B/Y box. The Mesa/Boogie Triple Rectifier was key to DeLonge's early sound; he employed them to create a distorted sound. "A Mesa/Boogie is like a nuke: you plug it in and it fills up every piece of the sonic spectrum," he said. As his sound gradually grew cleaner, he grew away from the Mesa/Boogies. DeLonge employed the Marshall JCM900 amps for his work on Dude Ranch, in which he improved his guitar tone.
Influences[]
Panic! at the Disco's Brendon Urie and Ryan Ross both cited DeLonge as one of their major influences. Urie said that DeLonge influenced his singing, remarking that "He has a voice that no-one else has [...] He's one of my bigger influences. He always writes amazing melodies and songs." Ross said: "I wanted to learn how to play [the guitar] like Tom DeLonge."
Non-musical endeavors[]
Personal life[]
DeLonge began dating Bahia Rodrigues in 2023.