Jack Johnson
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26.10.2010 22:27
Coldplay named "the most likely band to help people fall asleep" in Britain
Coldplay are "the most likely band to help people fall asleep" according to the special poll carried for Travelodge hotel chain in Britain. The second place was given to Canadian blues singer Michael Buble, Snow Patrol became third.
23.01.2008 00:00
Radiohead will perform near the Statue of Liberty
Radiohead and Jack Johnson will perform at All Points West Music & Arts Festival. «They will perform in the shadow of the Statue Of Liberty», says the announcment.
18.01.2012 15:03
Barack Obama wants Arcade Fire and Jay-Z to support him
US President has already announced the list of musicians whose support he wants for his re-election campaign. According to Rolling Stone magazine, it includes Maroon 5, Arcade Fire and Jay-Z.
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Biography
Jack Hody Johnson was born in Hawaii. He had natural talent for surfing, like his father, and began to surf from the early age. Besides it, he was interested in cinematography and learned to play the guitar at the age of fourteen. As a teenager, he listened to such performers as Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, Neil Young and The Beatles. Jack became the youngest contester and the Pipeline competition, when he was seventeen. Unluckily, he got a serious injury the same year and turn to music as the means of self-expression during his recreation. At that period Jack was a student of cinema department of the University Of California at Santa Barbara. Johnson tried himself as singer-songwriter and producer of documentary about surfing Thicker Than Water – he worked over the film with his friends Chris Malloy and Emmett Malloy.
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Reviews
To The Sea2010
Jack Johnson's fifth album To The Sea is carried out in the same manner as the previous works: soft vocals, contagious guitars and interesting lyrics, telling of this person's views on life and witnessing of his obviously strong belief
Sleep Through The Static2008
Jack Johnson is a musician who doesn't really like changes and experiments. The main advantage here is that you always know what you can expect. So if you always loved his songs than you will definitely love his new album Sleep Through the Static
In Between Dreams2005
Before Jack Johnson perfected his rock star ways, he was a champion surfer on the professional route. However, Johnson was also testing his other creative outlets – one being film and the other being music. Johnson steered away
