Jay-Jay Johanson

Thirty years after Whiskey, the first album that established his melancholic crooner voice over trip-hop beats and electronic textures, Jay-Jay Johanson returns to perform the record in its entirety. On April 8, 2026 at La Maroquinerie in Paris’s 20th arrondissement, he will play Whiskey track by track, then draw from the fifteen albums that followed to map his journey: velvety downtempo, electronic pop, hints of jazz, cinematic atmospheres and stories in light and shadow. Since the mid-1990s, the Swedish artist has refined a spare, narrative writing style, alternating intimate songs with precise arrangements, sometimes extending this visual sensibility to film and television. This Paris date promises a return to his roots and an overview of his discography—an occasion to gauge the coherence of a repertoire that has crossed eras without exaggeration. One rediscovers that discreet elegance, that sense of tempo and nuance that made Whiskey a milestone and Jay-Jay Johanson a singular signature.