16 Facts About Chaz Jankel

Charles Jeremy "Chaz" Jankel was born on 16 April 1952 and is an English musician and songwriter.

Chaz Jankel has a long list of credits as both a performer and as songwriter.

Charles Jeremy Chaz Jankel was born on 16 April 1952 in Stanmore, Middlesex.

Chaz Jankel attended the boarding school Mill Hill School and became a fan of the American rock, funk and soul band Sly and the Family Stone during his time there.

In 1973, Chaz Jankel contributed a track titled "Let's Go" to Long John Baldry's studio album Good to Be Alive.

Chaz Jankel then joined the folk rock band Jonathan Kelly's Outside and worked on their only studio album.

Chaz Jankel first started working with Ian Dury as part of the pub rock band Kilburn and the High Roads in the early part of the 1970s.

In 1981, Chaz Jankel joined Dury again, without the Blockheads, for his second solo studio album Lord Upminster, which spawned the US Top 40 dance hit "Spasticus Autisticus", which he co-wrote.

Chaz Jankel went on to release the studio albums Chazablanca in 1983 and Looking at You in 1985.

Chaz Jankel has several composer credits for films, including DOA, which was co-directed by his sister Annabel Chaz Jankel, and K2.

Since 2001 Chaz Jankel had issued records on his own CJ Records label.

In September 1988 Chaz Jankel moved to Venice, Los Angeles, where he lived with his Swedish girlfriend Catharina Hemberg.

Chaz Jankel and Hemberg have a son, Tao Hemberg Chaz Jankel, born in Hollywood in 1990.

In 1992 Chaz Jankel moved back to the UK, where he met artist Elaine O'Halloran, on the set of the film The Rachel Papers, where she was assistant editor.

The couple married and have a son, Lewis Shay Chaz Jankel, born in 1993, who is a DJ, record producer, singer and songwriter, using the stage name Shift K3Y.

Chaz Jankel's sister Annabel Jankel is a film and television director who, in 2018, directed the British film drama Tell It to the Bees; Jankel wrote a piano piece called "Unresolved" which features in the soundtrack.