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Before Jack Johnson perfected his casual rock star ways, he was a champion surfer on the professional route. The sport was second nature to the young Hawaiian native, who began chasing waves as a toddler and, by the age of 17, had become an outstanding athlete on the Pipeline. However, Johnson was also testing other creative outlets -- specifically film and music -- and a serious surfing accident convinced him to devote more time to those landlocked hobbies.

It was during his college years in the continental U.S. that Johnson began writing the relaxed, acoustic-based songs that would later turn him into a star. While studying film at the University of California at Santa Barbara, he also paired up with old friends Chris Malloy and Emmett Malloy to produced a surf cinema documentary entitled Thicker Than Water, which spotlighted Johnson as a talented cinematographer as well as a burgeoning singer/songwriter. His peers from the surf circuit praised his work, and Thicker Than Water received props in Surfer magazine as 2000s Video of the Year. The follow-up surf flick The September Sessions also earned the Adobe Highlight Award at the ESPN Film Festival that same year.

Still, Johnson steered away from a blossoming pro sports career and stuck with music, a move that would soon earn him additional honors. G. Love & Special Sauce quickly took notice of Johnson's lazy blues stylings, which also molded folk and hip-hop for a modern rock twist. One of Johnson's songs, "Rodeo Clowns," found its way onto G. Love's Philadelphonic in 1999, with Johnson contributing vocals and guitar licks to the track. Johnson's four-track demo then caught the ears of Ben Harper's right-hand man, J.P. Plunier, who opted to lend his production skills to Johnson's sultry studio debut. Brushfire Fairytales appeared in early 2001 and featured a cameo by Ben Harper, thus sparking a friendship between the two musicians.

Two co-headlining tours followed throughout the spring and summer of 2002, and Johnson's sophomore effort, On and On, appeared in May 2003. Stateside dates with Harper helped Johnson expand his audience, and On and On eventually climbed to number three on the Billboard charts. A third album, In Between Dreams, arrived in March 2005 and charted even higher, eventually going on to sell over two million copies. Johnson earned two Brit Awards for the album: International Male Solo Artist and International Breakthrough Act. In February, he issued the soundtrack Curious George. Nielsen SoundScan sales topped at 163,000 copies in its first week of release, earning Johnson his first-ever number one album on Billboard's Top 200 and Rock Albums charts. His sixth album, Sleep Through the Static, was issued in February 2008 and went platinum within a month of its release, a testament to Johnson's enduring popularity. ~ MacKenzie Wilson, All Music GuideMore

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Jack Johnson
Jack has released 4 solo records (Brushfire Fairytales, On & On, In Between Dreams, and Sleep Th...
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Fan Comments

Nov 16th, 1:58am
i watched en concert a few days ago, i loved it! what a lovely film, it beautifully captures the places you were. thank you for your music
Nov 15th, 10:17pm
u make me smile
Oct 23rd, 1:44am
i totally love you. and your music makes my life complete.
Aug 27th, 5:54pm
Hey, thanks for your friendship! :)
Aug 3rd, 11:41pm
hi......???
Jul 28th, 3:46pm
thanks for being my friend :) I just loooove your music!!!
Jul 27th, 3:40pm
Thank you for your friendship - we love your stuff!
Jun 28th, 7:44pm
Thank you Jack Johnson. You saved my relationship.
May 23rd, 10:13am
i love you ............my superstar.woooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwww
May 16th, 11:34pm
Happy Happy Birthday Joe
We Love You :)
~Special K~