Jack Johnson (musician)

Jack Johnson ( born May 18, 1975, Oahu, Hawaii) is an American surfer (Surf ) film director and singer-songwriter.

  • 3.1 Studio albums
  • 3.2 soundtracks
  • 3.3 remix albums
  • 3.4 Live albums
  • 3.5 EPs
  • 3.6 Singles

Life

Johnson learned as a five- year-old surfing and was 17 years old the youngest finalist of the Pipe Trials, a world-famous surfing event. Even before the end of high school he had a professional contract with the company Quiksilver. He was up to his graduation in 1993 students at Kahuku High School on the north shore of the Hawaiian island of Oahu. The " North Shore " and its beaches are the popular surfing club on the island chain. The fun of surfing was for him at a young age absolute priority. After a long injury layoff, in which he played a lot of guitar, he ended his professional career as a surfer, not to make life setting " surfing " to a profit-driven competitive sports. As an environmental activist organization One Percent for the Planet he leaves at least one percent of its profit flow in ecological projects. He lives vegetarian.

Movies

He attended as a film student, the University of California in Santa Barbara, California. He participated in the surf films September Sessions, Thicker Than Water and A Brokedown Melody and Sprout, which appeared under the record label The Moonshine Conspiracy. In 2004, the label renamed in Woodshed Films. Woodshed Films have become known by the relaxed atmosphere, the jazzy music and the first-class recording with 16- mm cameras. In contrast to many other surf films, it goes around at Woodshed films not about big-wave surfing, but surfing and everyday life. Johnson is friends with surf pros like Kelly Slater, Rob Machado and Donavon Frankenreiter.

Music

His first steps as a musician began with the learning of playing the guitar at the age of 14 years, which he, however, operate for a long time merely as a hobby.

Self-produced films had to be set to music, and to keep costs down, he used self-written songs. From now on, he quickly became a solid musical size in the surfing scene. Garrett Dutton, better known as G.Love, frontman of posts originating from Philadelphia R & B- hip- hop band G. Love & Special Sauce, and even avid surfer, became aware of Johnson and admitted his piece Rodeo Clowns in 1999 a place on the album Philadelphonic one. By word and " Tape to Tape " propaganda Johnson's notoriety in 2001, whereupon his debut Brushfire Fairytales appeared increased.

The success made ​​it possible for him to a studio in Hawaii ( The Mango Tree ) and his own record label ( Brushfire Records) to set up. Since 2002, he has already released four albums with the song Flake 2002 he was represented in the U.S. charts. In the video for the title Taylor ( 2004) Ben Stiller played a major role. Claims to Johnson was musically influenced by, among other things, by the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Ben Harper, Radiohead, Neil Young, Bob Marley, Otis Redding, etc.. In an interview in the magazine Surfers, the european soul magazine (issue 01/ 03) he said that he played in earlier times in a punk band and still hear punk rock.

"My first band was ' ne punk band - but you should have heard ... terrible! We loved the Pogen, only you could not call it music. Nevertheless, I did not have done any, to decide. I still listen to punk and Bob Marley. "

In 2005, he took with The Black Eyed Peas a revised version of his song Gone (new: Gone Going ) on. After a long world tour in 2008, Johnson published in 2009 the most famous hits of his studio albums on the live double CD En Concert. For the tour of his friend and prominent filmmaker Emmett Malloy has released a DVD with the same title. Part of the revenue will Johnson two charitable organizations that deal with environmental problems in Hawaii, donate. Early June 2010, he released his sixth studio album, entitled To the Sea.

In Johnson's Brushfire Records record label under contract:

And were available:

  • Donavon Frankenreiter

Band occupation

  • Merlo Podlewski ( bass)
  • Adam Topol (drums)
  • Zach Gill ( piano & vocals)
  • Jack Johnson (vocals & guitar)

Discography

Studio albums

Soundtracks

Remix albums

Live albums

EPs

Singles

Filmography

  • 2002: The September Sessions
  • 2003: Thicker Than Water
  • 2006: A Brokedown Melody
  • 2009: En Concert (DVD CD)
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