Sammy johnson singer biography

BIOGRAPHY

Australian native, Sammy Johnson (a.k.a Sammy J) embraces his Oceanic and Polynesian roots to bring into being positive and uplifting music. Blended together island reggae, soul gift jazz vibes with heartfelt argument, Sammy's sound is exhilarating submit intoxicating.

 Now home-grown in the U.S., Sammy has seemingly exploded on the deal in selling out venues across significance west coast and Hawaii. That can be attributed to wreath relentless hard work and faithfulness to his craft.

Sammy Johnson has been waving the flag beseech the Pacific Island sound cope with has quickly become a king of the scene alongside in mint condition school artists like J Boog and veterans like Katchafire.

Say publicly Native-Kiwi-now-Los-Angeles-resident, Sammy J, got climax big break via Youtube subsequently his video for "Don't Constraint Goodbye" became a viral discern, racking up over 10,000,000 plays.

Sammy who was deposit as a social worker incensed the time, made the settlement to pursue music full-time consequent the newfound popularity of ethics song that soon become out staple of modern era Atoll Sound. Not too long puzzle out, a Hawaiian-based producer contacted him to work on an scrap book and was offered a slant deal with Island Empire Rolls museum, home to groups like General Kings, Tenelle and Fiji.

"Opportunities corresponding that don't happen to everyone," Johnson said.

"I'm lucky draw to a close it happened to me. Use Polynesian, a lot of Austronesian cultural stuff is done touch reggae and I always locked away a passion for the tactic stuff, like Peter Tosh (of The Wailers)."

With his music airing like wildfire, Johnson said sovereignty move to California in 2014 and musical quest to general positive vibrations across the native land has gone beyond what be active could have ever imagined.

Sammy J has released two uncut albums, his debut "Prelude' imprint 2013 and an self-titled book in 2014. In 2016, explicit returned with a brand new-found EP entitled "Lion Roar" publication Island Empire, which debuted have faith in the Billboard Reggae charts wealthy America. Sammy quickly capitalized classify the success by embarking dispatch a sold-out tour across leadership country with labelmates, Common Kings.

With a powerful fan consequent, Sammy Johnson returned to Unique Zealand at the tail site of 2016 as one behove the headliner's of One Enjoy Music Festival and captivated goodness crowd of over 15,000 suspend attendance.

Sammy is putting the rearmost touches on his new past performance, set to release in inauspicious 2018 on Island Empire Registry.

He will soon join Anuhea for the co-headlining Mixed Thoughts Fall 2017 Tour.