- Born
- Nickname
- Jack of all Trades
- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- Mr. Johnson grew up on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii and started playing guitar at the age of 14. Before releasing albums on Universal Records, he became a professional surfer who was sponsored by Quiksilver. Jack studied Film at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), during which time he began writing songs as well as making documentary surf films. While Jack was in college at UCSB, he was in a band called "Soil". He played backup guitar for "Soil" and opened for Dave Matthews Band and Sublime in 1995 at the Santa Barbara Bowl. His demo recordings found fans in the ears of new friends such as Ben Harper and Garrett Dutton of "G. Love" & Special Sauce. After the great success of Jack's first studio album, he went on to work with Mario Caldato Jr. and Ben Stiller in subsequent musical and video projects.
- IMDb mini biography by: Rincon Surfer
- SpouseKim Johnson(July 22, 2000 - present) (1 child)
- So "green" is Johnson the musician-conservationist, the electrical energy needed to record his album, "To the Sea" (2010), was generated by solar panels on the roof of his Oahu, Hawaii, home studio.
- Has a bachelor's degree in film from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Ben Stiller appears in the video for his song "Taylor".
- Graduated with a B.A. from U.C. Santa Barbara along with actors Michael Douglas and Ossie Beck.
- His new album "In Between Dreams" is released in stores.
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