Jack Sonni (born December 9, 1954, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States) is a musician best known as "the other guitarist" in Dire Straits during the band's Brothers in Arms era.
In the late 1970s Sonni's band The Leisure Class had become a Monday night fixture at Kenny's Castaways on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village, the place for up and coming acts. In 1978 he started working at the newly opened Rudy's Music Stop, owned by luthier Rudy Pens...
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Jack Sonni (born December 9, 1954, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States) is a musician best known as "the other guitarist" in Dire Straits during the band's Brothers in Arms era.
In the late 1970s Sonni's band The Leisure Class had become a Monday night fixture at Kenny's Castaways on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village, the place for up and coming acts. In 1978 he started working at the newly opened Rudy's Music Stop, owned by luthier Rudy Pensa, where he met members of Dire Straits, first David and then Mark Knopfler.
He visited the Knopflers in London, and after David (and then Hal Lindes) left the band, Sonni was asked to join the band for the 1984 recording sessions for Brothers in Arms and the subsequent tour. Jack accepted, and played guitar synthesizer on "The Man's Too Strong."
After his collaboration with Dire Straits, Sonni contributed to other musicians' works but eventually left the music business. For a while he was director of marketing communications at Line 6, a...
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