ARTIST

Jack Johnson

Before Jack Johnson perfected his rock star ways, he was a champion surfer on the professional route with a sponsorship with Quiksilver. It was a life that was second nature for this Hawaiian native, for he began chasing waves as a toddler, and by the time he was 17 he was an outstanding athlete on the Pipeline.

However, Johnson was also testing his other creative outlets -- one being film, and the other being music. It was during his college years as a film student at University of California at Santa Barbara that 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...
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