Jan Sneum

Jan Sneum (born 1945) is a teacher, photographer, music journalist, lexicon editor and longtime manager of P3 Live at DR - the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. Educated teacher at a seminar in Copenhagen. Later teaching image media and photography at the Danish Teachers College. At the same time he worked as a music photographer and wrote for magazines such as Wheel, Superlove, Rok and MM.

He has been strongly interested in jazz and rock music since the 1960s and worked at DR as a program employee from 1980. For years he was an "on air" journalist. Later he was part of the editorial team at P3 Live working as executive producer of numbers of live recordings. Sneum is also an editor of various reference books on rock music, such as "Politikens Store Rock Leksikon" and "Dansk Rock - fra pigtråd til punk". From 2011 to 2014 he hosted "Sneums Garage". A weekly radio program at DR P6 Beat. He starred as himself in the 1993 film "De Skrigende Halse".

Jan Sneum's photos has been exhibited at RAGNAROCK Museum Roskilde.

In 2019 Jan Sneum released "Sneums Kalejdoskop". A book in album-size with lots of stories and photos from his work with music and artists.

Jan Sneum ☆ 17.12.1945 - ✝︎ 24.09.2020