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30 cold truth about Jack Johnson
Known for the feeling of rock music and Acoustic music feel good, Jack Johnson is the perfect choice for a relaxing summer day or driving long to the coast.
With popular blows like "Pancakes Banana", you certainly heard at least one song of this surfer.
Don't think you know what?
Jack Johnson does more than making the beach music perfect though.
Check out the top 30 truth about this multi-talented musician!
His full name is Jack Hody Johnson.
Johnson's music is relaxing perhaps because of his influence from his origin - he was born and raised on the north bank, Oahu.
Jack Johnson's father, Jeff Johnson, is a famous surfer.
His father, along with reality living in Hawaii, is likely that Jack starts to surf the web in just five years old.
Johnson has two brothers.
At the time Jack Johnson was 17 years old, he became the youngest person invited to surf in the North Shore Oahu Masters Pipeline finals - one of the leading surfing competitions in the world.
Just a week after debuting at Masters Pipeline, he had a surf accident that ended with Jack to need 150 stitches on his forehead and made him take a few teeth.
Jack Johnson's interest in music also started with small.
Interestingly, Jack Johnson did not learn music at university.
Jack Johnson directed his first surfing documentary, "thicker than water" in 2000. This documentary appeared with a new look on this genre because before, everything was in the style
Besides directing the surfing documentary, Jack Johnson also scored music music for "thicker than water".
Before he went to Solo, Jack Johnson played a rhythm guitar for a band called land in his college years.
The big rest for Jack Johnson came when he wrote and contributed to the "Rodeo Clowns" of G. Love, where he became the most famous single of the album.
In addition to being a musician and surfer, Jack Johnson is an actor, a record manufacturer and documentary filmmaker.
Along with his guitar skills, Jack Johnson also plays ukulele and keyboards.
When he was 28 years old, Johnson started his own recording studio called "Reshfire Records", made to become an environmentally friendly studio.
Jack Johnson's fourth album, "sleeping over static", fully recorded with solar energy in Los Angeles - this has become the first Jack Johnson album recorded outside Hawaii.
Jack Johnson married his college girlfriend, Kim, in 2000. They have 3 children together!
Together, Jack and Kim began two charities: Johnson Ohana Charity Fund, and Hawaii Kōkua Foundation.
The goal of Johnson Ohana Charity Fund is to support organizations focusing on environmentalism, art and music education at the global level.
Kōkua Hawaii Fund is a similar organization but on a more local level.
When Jack Johnson continued to visit "sleeping through static", he donated 100% of the proceeds to Johnson Ohana Foundation.
Only in 2009, Johnson Ohana fund mobilized more than $ 750,000, all with Jack Johnson gave and donated.
In general, Jack and Kim Kim donated more than $ 25 million for charity since 2001 - and that number continued to increase.
Jack Johnson's favorite guitarist All time is Jimi Hendrix.
Among Jack Johnson's music effects include Bob Dylan, Radiohead, Sublime and Bob Marley.
After returning from the road, some of the favorite things of Jack must be surfing, and tend to enter their organic pepper garden, spinach and herbs.
In 2006, Jack Johnson wrote a background music for "Curious George" cartoons.
When Jack Johnson took a tour in 2008, he asked any concert promoter related to carbon bought and encouraged the use of biodiesel.
Jack Johnson's music style from folk stone, soft stone, acoustic stone and surfing stone.
It's great to find one of your favorite celebrities as a really good person!
With its contribution to charity and awareness of its environmental impact, it's great to support a musician with better minds of the world.
Not to mention, his melody is Jammin '!
