OUR BLOG RULES: JACK JOHNSON

Jack Hody Johnson was born in May 18, 1975 near Haleiwa, on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii. Musican, singer, songwriter and surfer. His success started in 2001 with his debut album Brushfire Fairytales. His music is best described as acoustic/soft rock.

Jack Johnson son of one of the most famous surfers in the island, Jeff Johnson, naturally started surfing at a young age, having practically learned to surf at the same time qe leraned to walk, the man has grown up on his board. At the age 9, he won a surf even and scored a sponsorship with Quiksilver and who seemed to be the start of a professional route. Jack started surfing the universally revered Pipeline at the age 10. By 17, he made the finals at the Pipe trials, becoming the youngest person ever to be at th most prestigious surfing event: Pipeline Masters. Unfortunately, Jack suffered a near death experience at age 17 after crashing his body into the reef during the Pipeline Masters.

After his accident, while recovering, he get interested in filmmaking and soon became a surf film director, photographer, producer and score composer. He recived a praise for his surf cinema ducumentary, Thicker Than Water (1999) wich won the Surfer Magazine Poll award for best film of the year.

Jack Johnson also began writing songs during his college years, having played the guitar since 14 and being brought up with influences such as Nick Drake, Ben Harper, the Beatles, Bob Marley, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, and A Tribe Called Quest.

One day, inpiration arrived and Jack ended the day recodring "Rodeo Clowns", it became the first single from the album. His four-track demo caught Ben Haprer's ; J.P Plunier, who worked with Jack on his debut album Brushfire Fairytales. Since then he hasn't stop.

Personally I think that the best album is "In Between Dreams". In this album is the song Sitting, waiting, wishing. That is one of the most beautiful song ever :)

Nowadays he has 4 albums :

- Brushfire Fairytales (2001)

-On & On (2003)

- In Between Dreams (2005)

-Sleep Through The Static (2008)