Go-Jo

{{For|similar terms|Gojo (disambiguation){{!}}Gojō}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Go-Jo

| image = PrepartyES_-_Go-Jo_01_(cropped).jpeg

| caption = Zambotto in 2025

| birth_name = Marty Jo Zambotto

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1995|11|25|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Manjimup, Western Australia, Australia

| origin =

| genre = Pop{{Cite web|url=https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/sbs-picks-viral-tiktok-pop-star-and-stream-dream-gojo-for-2025-eurovision-song-contest/news-story/ed883620a2d62a78557bf4360ee4927d|title=SBS picks viral TikTok pop star and stream dream Go-Jo for 2025 Eurovision Song Contest|date=26 February 2025|first=Kathy|last=McCabe|website=news.com.au|access-date=13 March 2025}}

| occupation = {{hlist|Singer|songwriter|record producer}}

| instrument = Vocals

| years_active = 2016–present

| label =

| website =

}}

Marty Jo Zambotto (born 25 November 1995),{{Cite Instagram |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250302113209/https://www.instagram.com/p/DCynPsjvIgB/?img_index=1 |url-status=live |archive-date=2 March 2025 |first=Marty |last=Zambotto |user=heyimgojo |postid=DCynPsjvIgB |date=25 November 2024 |title=happy bday go-jo!!!!! im 115 years old on facebook and ive eaten about 600 broccolis because its my bday and i could probably squeeze in 5 more !!!! |access-date=26 February 2025}}{{cite web |last1=Jefferson |first1=Dee |title='There's no better feeling': TikTok star Go-Jo to represent Australia at Eurovision 2025 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/feb/26/go-jo-australia-eurovision-contestant-2025 |url-status=live |archive-date=2 March 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250302113736/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/feb/26/go-jo-australia-eurovision-contestant-2025 |website=The Guardian |access-date=26 February 2025 |date=26 February 2025}} known professionally as Go-Jo, is an Australian singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for his song "Mrs. Hollywood" and his participation for Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song "Milkshake Man".{{Cite web|url=https://www.sbs.com.au/aboutus/2025/02/26/global-viral-pop-sensation-go-jo-to-represent-australia-at-this-years-eurovision-song-contest-in-basel-switzerland/|title=Global viral pop sensation Go-Jo to represent Australia at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Basel, Switzerland|date=26 February 2025|website=SBS.com.au |publisher=SBS|access-date=30 April 2025}}

Biography

File:Go-Jo.jpg

Zambotto grew up on a remote, self-sustaining estate just outside of Manjimup, Western Australia, which helped to develop his musical style and artistic identity.{{cite web |author=Eurovision |date=20 March 2025 |title= Episode 7: Go-Jo The Official Eurovision Song Contest Podcast |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M434kR1ng-c |website=YouTube |access-date=25 March 2025}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ71qxruuok|title=HAPPY INTERVIEWS: GO-JO|date=17 April 2025 |website=YouTube |publisher=Happy Mag|access-date=30 April 2025}}{{cite web|title=Viral pop sensation Go-Jo to represent Australia at Eurovision 2025|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-26/go-jo-eurovision-marty-zambotto-milkshake-man/104983032 |website=ABC News (Australia)|access-date=3 April 2025}}

The property was not connected to electricity and so to gain electricity they would use solar panels that were mounted on a car chassis and connected to twelve recycled car batteries and they would move the panels multiple times during the day to maximise their output.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g87SBkl_uyM=237s|title=Go-Jo: "Milkshake Man" is the mascot of confidence Australia Eurovision 2025 (INTERVIEW) |date=21 March 2025|website=YouTube |publisher=Wiwi Blogs |author= Lucy |time=3:57 |access-date=30 April 2025}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_98OlE3pgk&t=148s|title=🇦🇺 Go-Jo (Australia Eurovision 2025) Interview @ House of Helvetia in Basel|date=14 May 2025|website=YouTube |publisher=wiwiblogs|time=2:28|access-date=17 May 2025}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8MAh5SJBR0&t=238s|title=Go-Jo on Living Off The Grid, Shout-Outs from the Prime Minister and a Potential Erika Vikman Collab|date=15 May 2025|publisher=Mysteries of the EuroVerse|website=YouTube|time=4:03|access-date=17 May 2025}} He has also commented that "...for our food... we had to, like grow vegetables..." and they also collected rain water from the gutters of their house and used it for drinking water.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twIPf1KfMCk=82s|title=Interview with Go-Jo - Australia Eurovision 25 -|date=13 March 2025 |website=Youtube |publisher=Eurovision Chris|time=1:22|access-date=30 April 2025}} Zambotto has also commented that it was very rare when the TV would be on in their house{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgWGOdHfjvo=647s|title=Interview with Go Jo 🇦🇺 Australia Eurovision 2025 |time=10:47 |date=13 March 2025|website=YouTube |publisher=Niall Points|access-date=30 April 2025}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8MAh5SJBR0&t=295s|title=Go-Jo on Living Off The Grid, Shout-Outs from the Prime Minister and a Potential Erika Vikman Collab|date=15 May 2025|publisher=Mysteries of the EuroVerse|website=YouTube|time=4:55|access-date=17 May 2025}} and he discovered new songs through watching a lot of the music video television program "Rage" as well as through "So Fresh" cds.

He has a twin sister and four brothers{{Cite news|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_98OlE3pgk&t=598s|title=🇦🇺 Go-Jo (Australia Eurovision 2025) Interview @ House of Helvetia in Basel|date=14 May 2025|website=YouTube |publisher=wiwiblogs|time=5:58|access-date=17 May 2025}} and his father is French and Zambotto is a dual national of Australia and France.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2q4ju1BEfE=215s|title=Go-Jo Talks Milkshake Man, French Roots & Eurovision Chaos Eurovision 2025 Australia Interview|date=17 April 2025 |author=Aitor|website=YouTube |time=3:35|publisher=ESCplus International|access-date=30 April 2025}} His mother was a rock musician and the lead singer of a local rock act.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8MAh5SJBR0&t=287s|title=Go-Jo on Living Off The Grid, Shout-Outs from the Prime Minister and a Potential Erika Vikman Collab|date=15 May 2025|publisher=Mysteries of the EuroVerse|website=YouTube|time=4:47|access-date=17 May 2025}}

He received his first guitar at the age of 14 after his mother got him an electric guitar from ToyWorld{{Cite news|url=https://eurovisionfam.com/getting-to-know-go-jo-what-are-the-ingredients-to-this-milkshake/|title=Getting to Know Go-Jo: What Are the Ingredients to This Milkshake?|date=21 April 2025|author=Elda Mengisto |work=eurovisionfam|access-date=30 April 2025}} and he began by covering songs from Green Day and heavy metal. At the age of 19 he was introduced to writing songs and music production and he has commented that, that was when "...everything changed.

Before that, I hadn’t really thought about it—it’s funny to think that my subconscious must have perceived songs as just something that instantly existed. It wasn’t until my best friend from my hometown showed me a beat he made and broke down each section for me. That was it—my mind was instantly rewired, like Peter Parker’s when he was bitten by a spider in Spiderman. I could literally feel my DNA constructing a whole new universe with that explanation.” He initially began writing, producing and mixing songs for other artists until it was later suggested to him by a song writer that he was writing a song with that he should begin singing on the tracks himself.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM16_4ZpXwg|title=GO-JO - MILKSHAKE MAN! (INTERVIEW) // Australia Eurovision 2025|date=2 April 2025|website=YouTube |author=Samuele Fabbri|publisher=Eurovoxx |time=1:51 |access-date= 30 April 2025}}

Throughout his upbringing Zambotto played Australian rules football at a high level and he moved to Perth where he competed at the semi-professional level for the East Perth Royals in the West Australian Football League as a teenager.{{cite web|title=WAFL Player Profile - Marty Zambotto|url=https://wafl.com.au/player/marty-zambotto|access-date=27 February 2025}} Whilst in Perth he was also producing music for other artists and then he decided to give up AFL and he moved to Sydney to pursue music full-time. The idea for his stage name came from when his mother used to watch Zambotto on the sidelines of running races and she used to yell "Go, Jo!", with the "Jo" referring to his middle name, Jo.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kmk67lYjAo=76s|title=Interview with Go-Jo 🇦🇺 Australia, Eurovision 2025 Do you want a taste of the 'Milkshake Man'? |time=1:16 |date=25 April 2025|website=YouTube |publisher=ESC Covers|access-date=30 April 2025}}

Zambotto is known for his guitar-centric original songs and covers. He released his first song in 2016 and his cover of the Goo Goo Dolls' song "Iris" has received over 3 million streams on Spotify. A video of him performing his song "Mrs. Hollywood" at Bondi Beach has been viewed over 6 million times,{{Cite web |title=Go-Jo - Mrs. Hollywood (Official Visualiser) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3eGwKuSPC8 |access-date=2025-03-17 |website=YouTube}} with the song reaching one billion views across all video platforms.{{cite web|title=Go-Jo|url=https://eurovision.tv/participant/go-jo-2025|url-status=live|archive-date=2 March 2025|archive-url=https://archive.today/20250302114300/https://eurovision.tv/participant/go-jo-2025|work=eurovision.tv|access-date=2025-02-26}} He has also performed as an opening act for the Jonas Brothers, Milky Chance and Tash Sultana.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kmk67lYjAo=256s|title=Interview with Go-Jo 🇦🇺 Australia, Eurovision 2025 Do you want a taste of the 'Milkshake Man'?|date=25 April 2025|website=YouTube |time=4:16 |publisher=ESC Covers Official|access-date=30 April 2025}}

On 25 February 2025, SBS announced that Zambotto would represent Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel with the song "Milkshake Man".{{cite web|title=Australia: Go-Jo to Eurovision 2025 with "Milkshake Man"|url=https://eurovisionworld.com/esc/australia-go-jo-to-eurovision-2025-with-milkshake-man|url-status=live|archive-date=28 February 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250228112228/https://eurovisionworld.com/esc/australia-go-jo-to-eurovision-2025-with-milkshake-man|first=Christian|last=Peterson|work=Eurovisionworld|date=2025-02-25|access-date=2025-02-26}} They competed on 15 May 2025, opening the second semifinal while failing to qualify for the grand final.{{Cite news |last=Van Lith |first=Nick |date=2025-05-15 |title=Here are the qualifiers of semifinal two at Eurovision 2025! |url=https://escxtra.com/2025/05/15/here-are-the-qualifiers-of-semifinal-two-at-eurovision-2025/ |access-date=2025-05-16 |work=ESCXTRA |language=en-GB}}

Discography

=Charted singles=

class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" \|+List of singles, with selected chart positions ! scope="col" rowspan="2" \| Title ! scope="col" rowspan="2" \| Year ! scope="col" colspan="3" \| Chart positions
scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;"\| AUS Indie For "Mrs. Hollywood": {{Cite web\|url=https://air.org.au/2023/04/24/this-week-in-the-charts-24-april-2023/\|title=This Week In The Charts – 24 April 2023\|website=Australian Independent Record Labels Association\|date=24 April 2023\|access-date=10 March 2025}} ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;"\| LTU {{cite web\|url=https://www.agata.lt/lt/naujienos/s21-4/\|title=2025 21-os savaitės klausomiausi (Top 100)\|publisher=AGATA\|language=lt\|date=23 May 2025\|access-date=23 May 2025}} ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;"\| SWE Heat. {{cite web\|url=https://www.sverigetopplistan.se/chart/215/?dspy=2025&dspp=21\|title=Veckolista Heatseeker, vecka 21, 2025\|publisher=Sverigetopplistan\|access-date=24 May 2025}}
scope="row"\| "Mrs. Hollywood" \| 2023 \| 18 \|\| — \|\| —
scope="row"\| "Milkshake Man" \| 2025 \| — \|\| 30 \|\| 16

class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"

|+List of singles, with selected chart positions

! scope="col" rowspan="2" | Title

! scope="col" rowspan="2" | Year

! scope="col" colspan="3" | Chart positions

scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;"| AUS
Indie

For "Mrs. Hollywood": {{Cite web|url=https://air.org.au/2023/04/24/this-week-in-the-charts-24-april-2023/|title=This Week In The Charts – 24 April 2023|website=Australian Independent Record Labels Association|date=24 April 2023|access-date=10 March 2025}}

! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;"| LTU
{{cite web|url=https://www.agata.lt/lt/naujienos/s21-4/|title=2025 21-os savaitės klausomiausi (Top 100)|publisher=AGATA|language=lt|date=23 May 2025|access-date=23 May 2025}}

! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;"| SWE
Heat.
{{cite web|url=https://www.sverigetopplistan.se/chart/215/?dspy=2025&dspp=21|title=Veckolista Heatseeker, vecka 21, 2025|publisher=Sverigetopplistan|access-date=24 May 2025}}

scope="row"| "Mrs. Hollywood"

| 2023

| 18 || — || —

scope="row"| "Milkshake Man"

| 2025

| — || 30 || 16