| If you haven't heard of Jack Johnson yet, you | | | | released in December of 2002. The soundtrack |
| may soon as his sound and name are becoming | | | | also featured Jack. |
| more mainstream with the release of his new | | | | In 2003, Jack Johnson released his second |
| single "To The Sea." | | | | full-length album On and On. It would be the first |
| Johnson, born Jack Hody Johnson, is not only a | | | | album to be recorded at Johnson's Mango Tree |
| singer and songwriter, but a filmmaker as well as | | | | Studio in North Shore, Oahu. Johnson said he |
| a surfer. Growing up with a father who was a | | | | credits most of the inspiration for the album to a |
| well-known surfer, Jeff Johnson, young Jack took | | | | childhood friend, Andrew Brown. |
| an interest in the sport and began surfing at the | | | | By 2004, Jack was performing at the Austin City |
| age of 5. By the time he was 17, he became the | | | | Limits Festival and starred in the 2004 surf film A |
| youngest invitee to make the surfing finals at the | | | | Brokedown Melody. In October of 2004, Jack |
| Pipeline Masters on Oahu's north shore. After an | | | | returned to the Mango Tree Studio along with |
| accident at the Pipeline that left him with 150 | | | | Zach Gill who played accordion, melodica and |
| stitches in his forehead, not to mention knocking | | | | piano, to follow-up on his 2003's On and On with |
| out a few of his teeth, he ended his surfing. | | | | the release of In Between Dreams, which was on |
| Jack also learned to play the guitar at a young | | | | the market March 1, 2005. |
| age. During family gatherings, Jack said his dad's | | | | In 2006, the soundtrack Sing-A-Longs and |
| friends came over and had singalongs. He felt it | | | | Lullabies for the Film Curious George, was |
| natural to write songs that anybody could listen to | | | | released by Jack Johnson. The album also |
| and this is the route he took as an adult. | | | | featured Adam Topol, Ben Harper, G. Love, |
| Jack also attended the University of California, | | | | Kawika Kahiapo, Matt Costa, Merlo Podlewski and |
| Santa Barbara and graduated with a film degree. | | | | Zach Gill. The soundtrack was the first to make |
| Now with music and film under his belt, it was just | | | | No. 1 since the Bad Boys II soundtrack in 2003, |
| a matter of choosing what route he wanted to | | | | and it was the first soundtrack for an animated |
| take. Johnson said during his college years, | | | | film to top the Billboard 200 since the Pocahontas |
| songwriting influences included Bob Dylan, Jimi | | | | soundtrack in 1995. |
| Hendrix, Radiohead Otis Redding, G. Love and | | | | In February of 2008, Jack Johnson enlisted J.P. |
| Special Sauce, Nick Drake, Ben Harper, The | | | | Plunier to produce his fourth full-length studio |
| Beatles, Bob Marley, Neil Young and A Tribe Called | | | | album Sleep Through The Static. The album was |
| Quest. | | | | made using 100% solar energy at the |
| Jack's professional career began after G. Love | | | | Solar-Powered Plastic Plant studio in Los Angeles. |
| befriended him and would later record his song | | | | The album was followed by a live album DVD of |
| "Rodeo Clowns." The song would appear on his | | | | Johnson's 2008 world tour entitled En Concert. |
| 1999 album Philadelphonic. In regards to his film | | | | Then in February 2010, Johnson produced Animal |
| career, soon after, Jack co-directed Thicker Than | | | | Liberation Orchestra's fifth studio album Man of |
| Water, a documentary surf film. He also | | | | the World. But it wasn't until his release of To the |
| composed the accompanying soundtrack. The film | | | | Sea followed by a tour that brought him to the |
| was released in 2000. | | | | forefront. Johnson, not a mainstream performer, |
| Jack Johnson's music soon caught musician Ben | | | | achieved No. 15 on USA Today's alternative |
| Harper's ear. Harper was especially interested in | | | | airplay chart for his single "You and Your Heart". |
| Jack's debut album Brushfire Fairytales. The album | | | | Johnson's album To the Sea was inspired by his |
| was released in 2001 with Harper making a special | | | | newly founded appreciation for his life on the |
| appearance with his lap steel guitar. | | | | ocean and everything that entailed. Johnson's |
| In 2002, Jack and his wife Kim, created Brushfire | | | | father, who had died of cancer, sent Jack into a |
| Records, a company designed to release | | | | writing hiatus and on an introspective roll. The |
| soundtracks for surf films. | | | | album celebrates his father, his father's wisdom |
| Jack went on to direct and star in another surf | | | | and passion for the ocean along with his love for |
| film The September Sessions. The film was | | | | his own wife and children. |