'People fascinate me,' chuckles Jon Chan. 'Sometimes they come up to me on the street. And the best thing is, they give me hugs. Hugs are great!' His grinning enthusiasm takes us by surprise. In his music, the singer-songwriter gives off the pensive vibe of fellow local troubadour Charlie Lim. In person, though, he’s a ball of energy. Like when he gets distracted by a whiff of truffle and loses his train of thought mid-sentence.
And don't get him mixed up with the veteran Plainsunset vocalist of the same name - this guy goes by the moniker JAWN, and he's just starting to get his music heard. Perhaps you've seen him perform in his now-defunct band The Huckleberry Friends, or you've listened to his YouTube covers of tunes by Damien Rice, Bon Iver and Kodaline.
Whatever the case, the 25-year-old's got a good six years or so of songwriting behind him. The first tune he wrote? A ballad about a breakup while he was in NS, he admits. It's a little cliché, sure, but he's penned hundreds of tracks since then, and whittled them down to the five in his self-titled EP, out November 13.
