Jia O'Connor

Bassist

Birthday December 26

Birth Sign Capricorn

Birthplace Baron Bay, Australia

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About

Bassist for the band Parkway Drive, which is considered to be one of Australia's most successful heavy metal bands and one of the country's top musical exports. Although the band had been forged 3 years prior, it wasn't until 2006 that he joined the group, initially as a temporary fill-in player, and eventually as a permanent fixture.

Before Fame

He met his bandmates when they were all teenagers. They named their group after the street where they grew up in Byron Bay.

Trivia

After rupturing his ACL in 2019, he carried on with the band's scheduled Europe tour and performed throughout its' entirety while in a wheelchair. The band's song "Prey" has garnered more than 70 million streams on Spotify. 

Family Life

He was in a long-term relationship with his girlfriend Tegan Sandmayr until she passed away from terminal metastatic kidney cancer while he was away on tour in 2016.

Associated With

His Parkway Drive bandmates include Winston McCallLuke Kilpatrick, and Jeff Ling.