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Jack Johnson Biography

Jack Johnson is a man that seems to have natural talent for anything he puts his hand to. Growing up in Hawaii, he turned to surfing at a young age, a sport for which he had great skill and love. Throughout his childhood and teen years, music played a vital role in his life, but surfing was his focus. He became an international surfing champion, sponsored by Quicksilver, and went on to ride in the Master Tournament, the world cup of surfing.

It was during his college years as a film student at University of California at Santa Barbara when Johnson began writing songs. He and old mates Chris Malloy and Emmett Malloy produced a surf cinema documentary entitled Thicker Than Water, in turn spotlighting Johnson as a talented cinematographer as well as a burgeoning singer/songwriter. His peers in and around the surf circuit praised his work, and Thicker Than Water received props in Surfer magazine for Video of the Year during 2000. The follow-up surf flick The September Sessions also earned the Adobe Highlight Award at the ESPN Film Festival that same year.

Johnson steered away from a blossoming pro sports career and stuck with music. Six albums later, it appears that he made the right choice. ~ MacKenzie Wilson, All Music Guide