NEWS:

• On the third week of August 2025 all my music was deleted from Spotify. I don’t know why or how but I’m working on it. On the same day the music disappeared was also the first day I was back in the studio to record 4 new Jonah Lake songs. What a coincidence! With 40000 listeners per month on average and nearly 5 million streams on Spotify this is a really hard blow for me and my music in a really bad way.

• I have a some new songs and I might re-record some of my old songs and release it all in a few months.

If you like my music stay tuned and hopefully there will be new stuff out in a while.

Jonah Lake

With my two albums Free soul and Neverland I have travelled the globe looking for the perfect waves while playing my music at different venues and festivals. From Lofoten in Norway and all over New Zealand to tropical Indonesia, Sri Lanka and across europe. What started off as a small side project turned into so much more.

I took the artist name Jonah Lake while living in a cabin for 5 days next to a Swedish lake. Johan became Jonah and Lake sounded better than Ocean. Jonah Ocean sounded more like a house DJ which I am not.

I was writing on some songs with an island/reggae vibe to them and I had a few older songs I thought would mix well with the new ones. So I decided to record an acoustic album called Free Soul. The album was recorded with only two Röde microphones, one Apogee audiointerface and a Macbook pro during July 2013 in a 9 square meter livingroom in Gothenburg.

I wrote all songs, played all instruments, recorded, sang, produced and mastered everything on my own recordlabel Tangled up in blue records.

That's 12 years ago. Since then I've played over 10 countries and met so many amazing people on the way. Enough jamsessions for a few lifetimes.

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SOMEONE USED MY SONGS FOR THEIR TRAVEL VIDEO COMPILATION

In February 2025 Jonahs album Free soul passed 4 million streams on Spotify

The end of Jonah Lake?

Because of a medical problem (wear and tear) on my left hand I am no longer doing concerts. I can manage to play maybe 3 to 4 songs in a row on my good days. I can still record music since I can rest my hand more often so my plan is to try to make some new songs for you all. Hopefully next year I will do an operation on my hand and then I will be ready to tour again in 2027.

Hopefully a vinyl coming out with 16. new and old songs in 2026 called Lost and found.

Here is a photo of one of my last official concert as Jonah Lake. Shot during the Hoddevik surffestival 2019. There was a few more concerts in New Zealand after this.