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For 17 years she’s made it look easy: marriage, motherhood, music career, and managing the enviable feat of becoming one of the most consistently sought-after producers and songwriters in independent soul. It doesn’t hurt that she’s also a knockout. For 17 years, Angela Johnson has been the real-life Superwoman of Independent Music. One of the first Indie Queens of Soul to reign, Johnson has released six albums of guilty pleasures that have caused thousands of souls to sing and feet to move around the globe. Building on the momentum established from her first two critically-acclaimed projects with Cooly’s hot-box, Johnson has become an international sensation in the UK and Japan and credibly positioned herself as a bankable brand with companies seeking fresh and innovative artists-partners. After years of sharing only the smiling siren behind the keys, with her latest Purpose Music release, It’s Personal, Johnson is now ready to reveal the truth behind the image and finally share the intimate secret to her fan’s #1 question: How does she do it?
Johnson will be the first to tell you that at least half of the reason she’s able to do it is her solid Utica, New York upbringing. A musical child prodigy, Johnson was playing piano by age four and violin by nine. The eldest of four, Johnson was supported throughout her formative years by a loving family in her most evident passion. Johnson’s Baptist church family added another layer of encouragement, giving her those crucial first opportunities to rock an audience as a choir director, organist and eventual star performer. At her spiritual and musical training ground, Johnson refined the ear arresting rhythms of her heart and the voice that echoed the notes endlessly playing in her head. Multi-hyphenated personal icons like Patrice Rushen and Angela Winbush set a path for Johnson in sound and illuminated the possible for a blue-collar girl who knew a multi-faceted musical destiny awaited her.
Born for music, Johnson enrolled in the State University of New York at Purchase (SUNY) to further study violin. At SUNY, she met her future Cooly’s hot-box bandmates and songwriting partner, Christian Urich. Together the eclectic soul and acid jazz band landed a deal with Polygram Records that ended almost before it begun. A trifecta of dance hits (“We Don’t Have To Be Alone,” “What A Surprise,”  and “Make Me Happy”) earned the band an international reputation for earnest, soulful grooves. In 2002, the group inked a new deal with Virgin Records, and released their critically acclaimed debut album, Take It. While honing her production and songwriting chops on the Cooly’s Hot Box debut album, Johnson decided it was time to express the woman she is alone and simultaneously recorded her solo debut, They Don’t Know (Purpose). Immediately distinguishing her sound from Cooly’s, Johnson’s solo debut, and its radio hit “Ordinary Things” loudly announced exactly what the industry should know: that Angela Johnson was here to stay. The industry listened. Songs from They Don’t Know and its intimate follow-up, Got To Let It Go (Purpose), were licensed by HBO’s The Wire, UPN’s Kevin Hill, FX’s The Shield, and the WB’s Roswell. As a featured spokesperson Angela was also appearing in Japanese car commercials for Nissan. In 2004 Angela briefly reunited with Cooly’s hot-box to record  their sophomore album, Don’t Be Afraid-Get On (Purpose).  In early 2005 the band was featured in a  national TV advertising campaign for SBCglobal.net (AT&T/Cingular). That same year Johnson departed the band who’d later become Tortured Soul. As a front woman for Cooly’s hot-box, Johnson had toured the world, now it was time to conquer it as an artistic force in her own right.
More than a pretty face, Johnson began penning hits for artists like Conya Doss (“Emotions”), Seek (“Journey Into Day”), Laurnea (“No Shame”), Monét (“Wanna Kiss You”), Reel People (“Can’t Stop”), and Japanese R&B superstar Double, for whom Johnson landed a 2001 top ten, gold selling hit, “Angel.” Her achievements as a producer and songwriter earned her the respect of artists’ artists like Maysa, Frank McComb, Eric Roberson, Rahsaan Patterson, Gordon Chambers, Marlon Saunders, and Claude McKnight, among others. All of whom graciously performed on Johnson’s last project, the single producer compilation, A Woman’s Touch, yielding the radio hit “Let Me Know (featuring Eric Roberson)” and three Soul Tracks Readers’ Choice Award nominations, including “Album of the Year.”
On stages from Kyoto to Briton, Johnson’s success, powerful performances, and Madison Avenue appeal helped to cultivate the alluring image of the dynamic Superwoman who was handling life with sass and aplomb, but there was always much more to Johnson’s woman next door persona than met the eye. In addition to her strong family upbringing, the secret weapon that has allowed Johnson to keep so many balls afloat over the last 17 years is her marriage to her manager and Purpose Music co-founder Russell Johnson. The dynamic duo has demonstrated the anti-thesis of every stereotype about Black love, Black family, and the legendary horror stories surrounding female artists with managing husbands. Angela’s comic sensibilities and creative chaos are complemented by Russell’s straight man stability and orderly business savvy. The Johnson’s yin and yang work because there are no leaders, only partners in business and in love. Together raising a daughter, who’s getting her own global education, the Johnson’s take co-parenting as seriously on tour as they do in their Newark, New Jersey home. With her newest project It’s Personal, it was important to Johnson to share her family and marriage experiences on songs like “Days,” “For You” and “Only One,” once and for all smashing the lone woman persona to share all of Angela Johnson with her fans.
After delivering nearly two decades of honest music, Angela Johnson has nothing left to prove. A newly liberated Johnson returns ready to party. Culling the funky sounds of that twilight period between the end of disco and the height of the funk era, Johnson’s production on It’s Personal rediscovers the rhythmic grooves, propulsive basslines, and memorable chords that once poured from live instruments instead of technology. Club bangers like the lead single “Better” and “Hurts Like Hell” fuses warm harmonies and infectious hooks with personal lyrics that tell Angie’s uncompromising truths. Throughout, Johnson gifts her listeners with that rare music her fans can both step to and be moved by, the kind once commonplace “On The Radio.”
With lyrical revelations like “Be Myself” and “Get Myself Together,” not since Got To Let It Go’s “Got To Let It Go,” Johnson’s personal testimony about surviving her mother’s homegoing, has Johnson bared so much of her soul in song. Even on the Eric Roberson’s penned “The Indie In Me,” the only lyric not written by Johnson, Roberson’s take on the joys and trials of life on the road as an artist resonate with Johnson’s story. As does the lifeblood of her marital love on the single, “All In Me,” with up and coming crooner, Darien, serving as a stand-in for Russell on a sultry duet that’s already steaming up the airwaves.
With It’s Personal, Angela tears down the final wall between her perfected image for the stage and the real-life woman who works hard and sometimes stumbles in her effort to keep it sexy for her husband, be a shining example for her daughter, maintain the esteem of her industry, and deliver the kind of music and performances that contributes something real in the lives of her fans. No more illusion, just Angie.

For tour and updates follow Angela Johnson on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Reverb Nation or on her website: http://www.angelajohnson.com/fr_home.cfm/. For bookings and inquiries: contact Russell Johnson @ The Purpose Music Group @ 973.688.8129 or purposemusicgroup@gmail.com.

http://www.angelajohnson.com/fr_angelajohnson.cfm
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Angela Johnson It's Personal

gospel 2018

Leftys 42

JustUs

my music

craig

I am

Beyoncé performing Listen from the Motion Picture "Dreamgirls" Live on Oprah. Not mine.

Beyoncé - Listen (Live On Oprah)

Conya Doss- What I'd Do

R&B Slow Jam Mix - Strictly For The Bedroom BY "DJ GROOVE"

The ultimate mega mix of the best of Old School 90s bedroom classics.  Over 2hrs of straight seduction!!!   Follow us on Twitter  & Instagram @dwentgroup or like us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/DWEntGroup) to keep up to date on when this mix will be made downloadable!  Don't forget to follow this Sound Cloud account! 

Somebody Ah Get Pregnant Tonight! - Old School 90s R & B Slow Jams

El Peso & G3rB - No Where (R&B Slow Jams)

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Mississippi Mass Choir- God's On Your Side

13Eric  Roberson/Couldn't Hear Her (Featuring Curt Chambers)

Please take time to listen to these selections to refresh your memory and/or to familiarize yourself with it.  

God Bless

How excellent by Mississippi Mass Choir

Jeff Bradshaw - All Time Love Ft. Robert Glasper Eric Roberson And Tweet ( SS1 Extended )

We The Best Forever

Welcome To My Hood (Remix) [feat. Ludacris, Busta Rhymes, Twista, T-Pain, Mavado, Birdman, Ace Hood, Fat Joe, Jadakiss, Bun B, The Game & Waka Flocka Flame]

US Fans: Download "Let's Stay Together" on iTunes here: http://wbr.fm/SealLSTiTunes  

Listen to one of the singles off Seal's new album 'Soul 2' available in France on November 7th and other territories beginning Nov 4th.
 

Let's Stay Together

Infinite available now. ∞
Download/Stream: https://lnk.to/InfiniteSO

"Two Shots" (Acoustic)
Download/Stream: https://lnk.to/TwoShotsAcoustic 

Watch the video for "Two Shots" here: https://atlantic.lnk.to/TwoShots/YouTube

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produced by goody grace, @gnash, & @myboyjon

[Intro/Hook: Goody Grace]
I just took two shots of henny
& I'm goin' in
I thought that we were over now we're goin' in
You still thinking bout me
Oh yeah I know that shit

[Verse 1: Goody Grace]
It used to be just you, but now I got a few
You got me regretting that I followed you
Got me going crazy, I'm still calling you
I bet you wish you cared more when I wanted you
I sent you a text & I know that you read it cause I know there isn't a time that you're not on your phone
You saying you miss me, well baby forget it
Cause I'm moving on & I'm doing just fine on my own, and now

[Hook: Goody Grace]

[Verse 2: gnash}
I wish it was easy to get over you
I don't think you get what I've been going through
Pockets growing, phone is blowing, know it's you
Cause who the fuck else would it be, you know it's true
I know you love talking but please get to stopping
Cause lately too often you haven't been sleeping alone
You know that I want you, but lately it's fuck you
So maybe you should let me know when you're ready to grow

[Hook: gnash]
I just took two shots of whiskey
& I'm goin' in
I thought that we were over now we're goin' in
You still thinking bout me
Oh yeah I know that shit

[Verse 3: Goody Grace]
Make sure your outfits always good
Gotta impress all your followers
No you ain't the Saint I thought you were
You so cool you so Hollywood
Delete your number, probably should
Unmeet you, I would if I could
You ain't the one I'm thinking bout
Your names no longer in my mouth
But, I sent you a text
& I know that you read it
Cause I know there isn't a time
That you're not on your phone
You saying you miss me
Well baby forget it
Cause I'm moving on
& I'm doing just fine on my own

[Outro]
I just took two shots of henny
& I'm goin' in

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Two Shots ft. gnash

The first single taken from the upcoming album by Phonte & Eric Roberson, 
"Tigallerro", in stores 7/22.

"It's So Easy"
(P. Coleman, E. Roberson, E. Jones, L. Ferguson)
Produced by E. Jones for The Soul Council and Zo! and Tigallo for TRACE
Additional keys and bass: George Pettus and Zo!
Additional background vocals: Shana Tucker 

Phonte and Eric Roberson - It's So Easy (Single Mix)

Love Her

Am I

MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF

POUR UNE ÂME SOUVERAINE: A DEDICATION TO NINA SIMONE

(October 9; Naïve Records)

http://wp.me/pQRvF-5Vh

Meshell Ndegeocello - Be My Husband feat. Valerie June

01 Only One

02 Hurts Like Hell

11 It's Personal

(E. Roberson, B. Scott)(E. Roberson, B. Scott, C. Dave)
Blue Erro Soul/EMI April Music Publishing (ASCAP); B Jazz Music (ASCAP); Drum Hedz 713 Music (SESAC)

Produced by B Jazz for TheJazzMovement.com, and Eric Roberson for Raider Of The Lost A.R.T.
All vocals by Eric Roberson
Drums and Percussion by Chris "Daddy" Dave
Guitar by Ben "Benanas" O'Neil
Bass by Thaddaeus Tribbett
All ofhter instruments by B Jazz
Mixed by Kevin jackson at Night Flight, Fort Washington, MD.
Drums miexed by Keith Lewis at Flyin Dread Studios, Venice, CA.

© 2011 Blue Erro Soul  All Rights Reserved
Purpose Music Group, LLC & eOne Music

Eric Roberson - Shake Her Hand

CONYA DOSS- LET ME LOVE YOU

This is a joint I produced for my homie Jon Bibbs, a great singer out of Richmond VA. Also feat another musical homie, the very talented  Conya Doss. The influence behind this track is all the black-expoitation movies I saw growing up and the music of Bobby Wommack.

03 Gone (w  Conya Doss)

Anthony Hamilton - Do You Feel Me-[www flvto com](1)

Conya Doss - Coffee

Conya doss tell me why

You Reign - William Murphy (GCT)

All In You

Starship

Eric Roberson & Curt Chambers- Couldn't Hear Her

Sacrifice of Praise  William Murphy

In the past 20 years, the entertainment industry has undergone many changes in what is seen, heard and how it gets to the masses. What is constantly on mainstream TV and Radio and even other mediums including the web show a tiny representation of talent, creativity, style and culture etc. Currently, we are transitioning from older methods of getting new and underexposed entertainment. It's now about using new methods and strategies to create the exposure we need and desire!

We at jinjii.com were convinced that there is a huge segment of the buying public that are artistically under served by the mainstream media and don’t know what and where to hear good music and see new TV.

jinjii.com is a online musical/visual alternative that provides ongoing independent video and audio programming. We will build and expose people to new genres and styles of entertainment by having the freedom to be more “cutting-edge” than existing TV and Radio. We will provide viewers the worldly perspective on culture, lifestyle, opinion, history, art, music, performance and entertainment while providing the world to the artist.

As jinjii.com continues, there is much more to come. So if you like what you see (or not), then say so. Feel free to participate and make suggestions. We are building as you enjoy our beginnings!

Enjoy The Renaissance and Stay Tuned!!

ePerry

01 Only One

the5DLife