Jason Guy (singer)
Jason Guy was a musician who sang and sometimes played acoustic guitar in the New Wave band Faith Global, formed by 1982 by him and ex-Ultravox! guitarist Stevie Shears.
Guy met Shears in 1978 soon after Stevie had left Ultravox! having teamed up with Ice, Gloria Mundi bassist, the three of them started a project called New Men, which came to nothing; Shears went on to join Cowboys International and Jason went on to form The Emotional Joes a.k.a. Emojos with Adam Hart-Dyke and Steen Joffe. David Rome of Survival records encouraged Stevie and Jason to re-form, they did, using the name Faith Global the pair released an E.P "Earth Report" in 1982 and the album "The Same Mistakes" the following year. Although the album received favourable press Stevie and Jason had decided to split as soon as the record had been released.
Jason had already started to work for Stephen Woolley and Nik Powell at Palace Video (1982) and then Palace Pictures (1983). He then Worked for Palace, Virgin, Gold (1984) as Label manager working on the then new market of long form Music video. He then went on to work for A&M records as Product Manager (1985–88) then Chrysalis Records as Marketing Director(1988–1991) then he went back to A&M (1991–1993) as Marketing Director before a brief stint helping set up Echo at Chrysalis. Having Left Echo he went on to Polydor as marketing director (1994–96), he then left the music business to study Philosophy at London University (Heythrop College 1996-99) on leaving college, he worked briefly as General Manager of Island Records and then Marketing Director of Sony S2 later to become Marketing Director of Sony Music UK.
Having left Sony (2004) he worked for the then fledgling B-Unique only to leave in 2005 to set up his own artist development label Smack Productions.