"My mother told me when I was seven that if you pick a flower it will touch a star," says Jonny Fair, lounge singer, songwriter, entertainer and mouth-harpist for Blue Tone Records, a simple performer with an uncomplicated message that goes straight to the soul in a world of loops and curves. "As a performer, I strive to connect; as a songwriter, I strive to inspire; as a man, I strive to be. Music plays a major role for me in all of this, it truly is the essence of my being."

"I’m a very simple person who is not easily influenced by the media who, in my opinion, help to propagate most of the needless drama that is constantly spilling over into our daily lives. This, in turn, allows me to think and focus on many of the more personal aspects of life and many of its lost simplicities." Jonny expresses. He lives according to this outlook. Though he'd love to be seen on TV, watched on videos or heard on the radio, he admits he actually has none of these things. "I don't even own a microwave. I’ll be cooking my dinner over a stove while writing a song in my head with no distractions from the outside world, which makes it very convenient, fulfilling and rewarding for me. I’ve listened to more music than most people will in an entire lifetime. The only music I want to hear, now, is all in my head."

While in the world of his own making, what is it that plays on in the mind of Jonny? "Southern Swing/Traditional Lounge Jazz/American Folk Music, long title, huh?" he says with a laugh. "Even THAT doesn’t fully describe it, but very, very close! I was steeped in this type of music from childhood on up, with many different, but similar, forms that all come together like a giant family reunion!"

This conglomeration of choral cousins and musical mad uncles began early on in the family tree when Jonny was but a bud singing for his supper. "I would wake up for my feeding around four or five in the morning (now this is when I was only a few months old,) instead of crying for my bottle, I would hum and make soft, happy singing sounds like la-la-la-la. My grandma laughed at this and believed that to be impossible until one time after she spent the night with us. Sure enough, early that morning before feeding time, I sang. My grandma apologized to my mother saying that she had never heard of a baby doing that before!" he recounts.

"My family is and always has been very supportive of me and my goals in life, whatever they may be. They are very special and inspiring people to me. I was lucky to come from a very loving home. We were poor, but my father had two and three jobs at all times. My parents made it seem as if we had more than we really did. We spent a lot of time doing family things, so there was quite a bit of quality time. I had a chance to really be a kid because I didn’t have many toys. So I had to use my imagination and spent most of my days in the woods climbing trees, fishing, catching frogs, collecting worthless junk that I thought were treasures, skipping rocks, running around with my dog and just being a boy. I was adventurous and ornery, but I grew up with the golden rule, so I was generally kind to others. Of course, I would spend hours upon hours listening to music of all sorts from classical to jazz and singing, I was always singing."

Much like the songbirds in the branches within which he swung, he was soon to leave the nest to taste new breezes and blow a few of his own. "The trumpet was basically my primary instrument, but I gave it up when I started to see veins popping out all over my forehead and face after playing a particularly tough piece. It was scary, too, because they wouldn’t go down for about thirty minutes! That’s when I decided to dust off my old chromatic harmonica that I had played on and off as a kid. It was at that point that I started getting a little more serious with it as far as an instrument that I could play professionally. I like the challenge of trying to make the harmonica sound like a bigger instrument than it is, trying to make it sound warmer, softer and less trill."

Recently, Jonny scored the original music and acted in a motion picture starring Omar Benson Miller called ‘Gordon Glass’. He then went on to record with the 80-piece Warner Brothers Symphony. He feels this is only the start of what he will accomplish in his lifetime. Though recognition is great, it's what he brings to others that is the real payment for his performance. "Producing and conveying thoughts, ideas and emotions in a language that touches others in a positive way. That’s extremely rewarding to me."

"I believe that all human beings start out glorious but very few ever end up that way. The laws of the universe are eternal so we should learn to live with them. That being said, it is imperative that we be vigilant on our path through all walks of life. Because happiness is making life more wonderful and less problematic, so choosing our problems wisely is essential. Knowing that, it’s rather very simple, we are either our own best friend, or our own worst enemy..."