reviews_and_ramblings | Man Candy Day: Ty Baxter, Roger Garth & Jonne Aaron

This week I would like to feature the androgynous man, or that boy who is often described in books as too pretty to be a man (as if pretty and man are two words that can not coexist, mah...). Strangely, all three examples I found are blond and ephebic, perhaps in my imagination the dark handsome man is not adrogynous ;-) and indeed, although very pretty, I think that in any case, if I crossed them on the street, I would not doubt that they are men.

Ty Baxter is a South African folk singer living in London, with a dreamy voice and lickable, mischevious smirk.

Ty Baxter was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. At an early age his parents divorced, this coupled with the turbulent political realities at the time left him with a strong desire to create something beautiful in a world in which beauty seemed hard to come by. At the age of 10 Ty started his first year at a boarding school. Ty found the place enchanting and mystical but also very lonely. To combat this and his home-sickness he started keeping journals of all his thoughts and ideas, without really knowing it had started songwriting.Ty instantly took command of the audience. He has a tremendous amount of stage presence. The first thing that strikes you is his unmistakable distinctive style (look). His musical style of melodic pop would not be out of place in the charts. From the heart wrenching lullaby “Whispered Words” to “Skin Deep”. Ty has the full package. He has great vocals, melodies & abundance of stage presence.

Go listen his music, it's really awesome: http://www.myspace.com/mrtybaxter

Roger Garth is an Italian top model, dubber, television man, and actor who began his career when he was very young lending his face to a lot of children advertising.

In television he was in The Mickey Mouse Club, a show that produced artists like Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera (in the USA). In the ‘90s his voice is in many American cartoons like Alvin and the Chipmunks. Garth began working in the fashion world, to become in a few years one of the most successful male model for campaigns, calendars and catwalks for important name in the fashion world, Calvin Klein to Dior. In 2007, his face is chosen to launch the new line of Alviero Martini, with bags bearing the image of Garth. For a short time he is on theatre stage playing Dorian Gray. His acting career continued with the movie “Identità Inattese” in 2005. In the spring of 2006 he is the co-host, along with Heather Locklear and Rachel Dratch, of the Saturday Night Live. Its activity as dubber for cartoon continues with the television series created by Seth MacFarlane, American Dad. In September 2006 he joined the cast of Markette, an Italian tv show conducted by Piero Chiambretti on La7, and he has an instant success and he is reconfirmed through 2007 and 2008. In 2007, he is the lead in the movie Flylight (Il Volo Leggero). He had a music program on Italian MTV and a fashion program on Fashion TV. Since 2007 he is columnist and models tutor in the program Modeland on All Music and in the winter of the same year he was chosen by Stacy London for the program Fashionably Late, on American television. Roger had to change the look of the chosen people, all shot in the heart of Manhattan on a wild ride in the shopping world of New York. In 2008 Roger Garth had a love affair with Alessandro Cecchi Paone, an Italian journalist and tv showman, who is quite older than Roger.

Jonne Aaron Liimatainen (born August 30, 1983 in Tampere) is a Finnish singer and frontman of Negative.

Jonne was born in Tampere, Finland as Jonne Aaron Liimatainen, but as his last name is difficult to pronounce for non-Finnish speakers, he has substituted his middle name for his last. Jonne was brought up in foster care due to alcoholic and abusive parents. His brother Tommi knew that he needed tough love. He skipped school and guitar lessons preferring to hide in his room. He is currently the lead singer and lyricist of the Finnish glam rock band Negative. He has two brothers, Tommi, also his manager, and younger brother, Ville, who is also a musician, he is the lead singer of Flinch. Jonne is known for being very, very shy. He can play guitar and sometimes will play acoustic during concerts. He can also play a little bit of piano, drums, and bass. He plays the harmonica solo in the Negative song Until You're Mine. He has also mentioned in past interviews that Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, Bloodwych, and Guns N' Roses inspired him to begin a musical career. In his teens, Jonne formed Negative with his friend, Jay. Later Antti, Kristian (Sir Christus) and Lauri (Larry Love) joined the band.