About Sunna

History:

Jon Harris signed development deal with BMG RCA with Simon Cowell within three months of writing first five songs, toured UK with band Chillum.

Then went on to work with Massive Attack, wrote B-side to Enersure Creeps, also contributed other tunes for Mezzanine, and Hundredth Window. In this time he signed to Massive Attacks label Melankolic, subsidiary of Virgin Records with new project Sunna. Re-mixed Manic Street Preachers "If You Tolerate This."

Whilst signed to Virgin, he toured twice in USA, playing to audiences of 6000 people a night. Sunna's second single "Power Struggle" was featured in the number one movie Hollow Man, back in the year 2000, other movies he performed in, John Hurts "Love and Death In Long Island".

Toured Sunna Album One Minute Science extensively in the UK, sponsored by Kerrang magazine. Then toured Europe, supporting The Smashing Pumpkins performing in front of 20,000 people per night. Power Struggle had eight plays a day on MTV As did the third single "I'm Not Trading" Sunna sold 75000 albums worldwide.

During touring Jon always had a condensed Pro-tools rig with him, and was constantly writing, and by the time Sunna finished touring, Jon was ready to get back in the studio. So Jon spent a couple of weeks in the Portishead studio in Easton, Bristol, and recorded four songs, "Spider", "Rebirth", "God Says", "Know Who They Are". Before these songs were mixed, Jon secured, and signed the deal with Virgin to complete the second album.

After a couple of weeks of working back in his own studio, Jon received a call from Marc Pikin of Massive Attacks management, and subsidiary of Virgin records who looked after Jon, and his project. Marc informed Jon that virgin were undergoing some changes, and were going to be dropping some bands, and went on to say that Sunna is one of there priority bands and were secure. Within another two weeks Jon received another call from Massive Attacks lead man 3D, who then promptly notified Jon that Virgin records had sacked the head of A&R, bringing in someone new to clean up the record company, and so terminating Jon's record deal. As Jon had signed the deal, Virgin had to pay him his advance, so picking himself up Jon invested in a new pro-tools rig, and carried on recording his second album "Two Minute Terror".

After months of persistence, and Jon's ongoing battle with drugs and alcohol, Jon fell off the grid, drowning himself in a cocktail of pharmaceutical downers, crack and cocaine, until finally he couldn't sink any lower, leaving himself with two options. Eventually Jon made his decision, cleaned himself up and spent the next six years rebuilding his life, relapsing occasionally.

Then in 2009 Jon put his second record out independently on line, hoping sales would generate enough revenue to put the band together and tour. Torrent downloads put a fast stop to this with stolen downloads reaching over 60.000 within the first month. Not wanting to loose momentum, Jon decided to get on and record the third album, but in true Harris style, he was surrounded and submerged in turbulence, and dynamics, constantly infringing on Jon's creative path, but intent on not giving in, Jon finished his third album, After The Third Pin.