Jayney Klimek is an Australian singer and songwriter.

Family background

Jayney comes from a family steeped in music. Brother Alf Klimek

Alf Klimek

Alfons "Alf" Joseph Klimek is an Australian musician.Klimek was born in Melbourne and is the older brother of Johnny Klimek and Jayney Klimek. In June 1977, he joined the "Stuffed Puppets" under the guidance of Neville Tranter as a puppeteer and comedy script writer. The group flew to Amsterdam to...

 was a founding member of The Other Ones / Spliff Radio Show. Her twin Johnny Klimek

Johnny Klimek

Johnny Klimek is an Australian film and television composer, currently based in Los Angeles. He is known by association with German filmmaker Tom Tykwer, with whom he and longtime partner Reinhold Heil have collaborated on seven films, including Run, Lola, Run and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer...

 is a successful Hollywood composer. Cousins Nic Cester

Nic Cester

Nicholas John "Nic" Cester is an Australian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, and is the lead vocalist in rock band Jet...

 and Chris Cester

Chris Cester

Christopher James Cester is the drummer and backing vocalist from Australian rock band Jet. His brother is Nic Cester, the band's lead singer...

 form part of Jet

Jet (band)

Jet are an Australian rock band formed in 2001 while attending St Bede's College Mentone in Melbourne, . The band consists of lead guitarist Cameron Muncey, bassist Mark Wilson, and brothers Nic and Chris Cester on vocals/rhythm guitar and drums respectively...

.

Music career

Jayney achieved chart success with The Other Ones

The Other Ones (Australian-German band)

The Other Ones was a band that consisted mainly of Australians, but was based in Berlin, Germany in the late 1980s. The band consisted of Alf Klimek , Jayney Klimek , Johnny Klimek , Andreas Schwarz-Ruszczynski , Stephan Gottwald and Uwe Hoffmann .-History:After traveling throughout the world in...

. "Holiday" spent 20 weeks in the European Top Ten.

Collaborations include work with Tony Banks

Tony Banks (musician)

This article is about the musician. For other people named Tony Banks, see Tony BanksAnthony George "Tony" Banks is a British composer, and multi-instrumentalist, who performs as a keyboardist and a guitarist...

, Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member...

, Paul van Dyk

Paul van Dyk

Matthias Paul, better known by his stage name Paul van Dyk is a German Grammy Award-winning Electronic Dance Music DJ, musician and record producer...

, Alphaville

Alphaville (band)

Alphaville is a German synthpop group which gained popularity in the 1980s. The founding members were Marian Gold , Bernhard Lloyd , and Frank Mertens Alphaville is a German synthpop group which gained popularity in the 1980s. The founding members were Marian Gold (real name Hartwig Schierbaum,...

, the French band from Bordeaux XII Alfonso.
Jayney co-wrote and performed lead vocals on Digital Tenderness Terranova.

Her new band is You Pretty Thing with Andreas Schwarz-Ruszczynski.
Their Single "Push It" has become the longest running No.1 played track on RadioEins.