James Dixon “Jimmy” Barnes AO is a Scottish-born Australian rock singer. His career, both as a solo performer and as the lead vocalist with the rock band Cold Chisel, has made him one of the most popular and best-selling Australian music artists of all time.
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How is Diesel related to Jimmy Barnes?
It was the beginning of a long and ongoing relationship between Diesel and Barnes. The relationship would later become personal as well as professional, with Diesel and Barnes becoming brothers-in-law after Diesel married Jep (Jane Barnes’ sister) in 1989.
JIMMY Barnes gave Mark Lizotte his first break as Johnny Diesel in the mid-1980s. Four years later, in 1989, they became brothers-in-law, when he married Jep, the sister of Jimmy’s wife Jane.
Jimmy Barnes spent many years trying to distract his daughter Elly-May from her cerebral palsy. “We wanted to make her feel like she was absolutely the same as everyone else. She always struggled, but we made it like it wasn’t a big deal,” says the Aussie rock star, from his home in New South Wales Southern Highlands.
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