Sir Christus

Sir Christus (born Jukka Kristian Mikkonen, April 10, 1978) is a Finnish guitarist, best known as the former rhythm guitarist of the glam rock band Negative. His father was Arwo Mikkonen, guitarist of the legendary Finnish rock band Popeda. His father died in 1986, leaving 8-year old Christus and his 4-year old brother Matthau, without a father figure in their life.

On Negative's single Fading yourself (March 14, 2007), Sir Christus did vocals for a bonus track: Lost in America (Originally by Alice Cooper). Negative has never performed this song live. Christus has performed this song live, with the band Private Line, November 28, 2007. For the encore, Sammy did not re-appear on stage, but Christus did and they performed Lost in America, with Christus on vocals but no guitar. Later he performed this song with his band Black Jesus.

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SnoWhite, formerly known as Blaquarium, was founded in winter 2007 by Dino, Purtsi, Julius and Vode. In June 2008 Rafaello joined the band, and their first gig was in Amadeus during Tammerfest, supporting another band. After that Vode decided to leave. Dino, Purtsi and Julius gave free hand to Rafaello to choose a new guitarist. He decided that Christus would be the best choice. First gig as SnoWhite and not Blaquarium was in Vastavirta Klubi, Tampere supporting The Bitterlicks and The VooDoo Nights. "Is it my body" and "Number of the beast" are the only two cover-songs they are playing. SnoWhite's second gig, taking place in Vastavirtaklubi in Tampere September 13, 2008, has got positive reviews by Aamulehti. Sir Chrisus announced to leave SnoWhite on 3 January 2010.

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Christus has had a sideproject since fall 2007 that is called Black Jesus - the name was later changed to Black Jezus and then changed back to Black Jesus. When he left Negative, at first people thought Christus had disappeared but then there were dates announced in February.

There were speculations about Christus and his position in this band, and the band was thought to be what it was to begin with: a side project, a mere base for playing some shows and cover songs and have some fun. Black Jesus is having a prolonged summerbreak to focus on other projects. The band split in autumn 2008 and played their last gig in Somero in November 2008.

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Shortly after Christus' leaving Negative, there were rumours that he would join his brother's solo-project on bass. It was not until late that Matthau himself announced his line up that the rumours were confirmed. Christus played the guitar still, and not the bass. He was thought to be only a part of the live shows, like the rest of the line up. Matthau announced on his website after the German Tour (Schraubelocker Tour 2008) that the three-piece band is now a band and not a solo-project with a live band.

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