Jack Johnson

Jack Johnson, born May 18, 1975, grew up in Hawaii, in Hauʻula, and his music sounds like it: unhurried, sun-warmed, strummed on a guitar or ukulele with a voice that never needs to raise itself above a conversational murmur. Pop, rock, folk and surf rock all drift through it, but the mood is always the same, easy and open, like a lazy afternoon by the water.

Brushfire Fairytales, in 2000, with "Flake" and "Bubble Toes" setting the template: loose, rolling grooves, clean acoustic guitar and melodies that hang in the air. On and On followed in 2003, a little more pensive, with "The Horizon Has Been Defeated", "Taylor" and "Wasting Time". Then In Between Dreams, in 2005, climbed to number two on the Billboard 200 and bringing "Sitting, Waiting, Wishing", "Good People" and "Better Together" to the airwaves. In 2006 his soundtrack album Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for the Film Curious George went to number one, and "Upside Down" arrived the same year.

Sleep Through the Static went to number one in 2008 with "If I Had Eyes" and "Hope", and To the Sea did the same in 2010, with "You and Your Heart". From Here to Now to You topped the chart again in 2013, and All the Light Above It Too debuted at number 5 in 2017, his seventh top five album. Meet the Moonlight arrived in 2022.

Offstage, Johnson has put his money where his mouth is on the environment. He and his wife Kim set up the Johnson Ohana Charitable Foundation and the Kōkua Hawaii Foundation, the proceeds of the Sleep Through the Static tour went to the former, and the To the Sea tour's proceeds went to All at Once, a network of green charities he backs.

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