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Jojo
Jojo

Hair color

Black

Eye color

Brown

Hometown

Unknown

Friends

Jude

Sadie

Enemies

Sadie (temporarily)

Relationships

Sadie

Family

Unnamed younger brother (deceased)

Unnamed mother

Unnamed father

Skills

Guitar

Singing

Songwriting

Portrayer

Martin Luther McCoy

Jojo was a guitar player whose younger brother was killed during a race riot. He ended up moving to New York to find work, and eventually found Sadie, with whom he developed a love/hate relationship.

Relationships

Sadie

Jojo auditioned to play guitar in Sadie's band, Sadie and the Po Boys. He got the job and grew closer to Sadie. But later, during a concert, he started purposefully ruining the performance and Sadie angrily left the stage. When Jude returns from Liverpool, however, Jojo is back in Sadie's band, showing they have made up.

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Songs

Solos (In a Group or Duet Number)

  • All You Need is Love

Quotes

"Music's the only thing that makes sense anymore." - Jojo

Trivia

  • His name comes from the character of "Jojo" from The Beatles song "Get Back."
  • He is the only one of the 6 main characters to not sing his own song (unless you count "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", in which Jude joins in at the end).
  • He can play guitar skillfully.
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