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), G. Love & Special Sauce,

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Biography

At a very early age, Logan traveled with his mother, a DJ, and often performed

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with her. By the age of 15, Logan was on-stage as the front man for the local

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rock band Gunshy. The band released one album in 1996, but broke up when Logan was 18. After the breakup, Logan played at local venues for two years as a solo artist, hosting

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nights as well as performing, to hone his skills as a solo musician. In the early 2000s, he formed the three-piece band Josh Logan & Nobody's Business with hired musicians. Within a few years, he had earned the title "hardest working musician in

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" from the local newspaper

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Logan was also one of 100 semi-finalists in the Disc Makers "Independent Northeast Songwriting Competition". In December 2004, the band released a self-titled full length CD. Its first single "Painful Breath" was aired on the New Hampshire Clear Channel rock radio stations WGIR ("Rock 101") and

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. In 2006, Logan was one of the top 15 finalists of 25,000 entrants on the

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TV reality show '' Rock Star: Supernova'' featuring

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, Gilby Clark,

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. He was eliminated on August 9 along with Jill Gioia. In 2007, Logan formed The Josh Logan Band, which is composed of Logan on vocals and rhythm guitar, Nate Comp on lead guitar, Matt Reignkin on bass, and Ryan Barrett on drums. The band released the album ''Gone Tomorrow, Here Today'' in 2012.

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and Lisa Guyer of

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's solo project are each featured on one of the album's songs. That year,

named him "Best Local Performer Playing Original Songs" in its 8th annual Reader's Poll.Hippo’s Best Of Everything 2008 – 8th annual readers’ poll
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), Tantric,

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, James Montgomery, Toby Lightman, De Sol, Josh Gracin and many others.

The Voice

In 2013, he competed in Season 5 of

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's singing competition, '' The Voice''. On the inaugural day of the season, broadcast on September 23, 2013, he performed

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's song " Too Close."

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, and

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turned their chairs but he opted to join Christina Aguilera. He finished the season in 11th place. : – Studio version of performance reached the top 10 on iTunes

Discography

with Gunshy

* Silicone (1996)

as Josh Logan and Nobody's Business

* ''Josh Logan And Nobody's Business'' (2004)

as Josh Logan

* ''Gone Tomorrow, Here Today'' (2012)

References

External links

The Official Josh Logan website – joshloganonline.com

Official MySpace page

Rockstar: Supernova site

REVERBNATION page

Video of Josh Logan performance

The Voice information page on Josh Logan
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