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J.J. Johnson was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. The son of a jazz musician, he studied theatre as a child. Mid-way through adolescence, he discovered radio and was given his
first commercial air-shift at the age of seventeen while still attending high school in his home town. Since that time he has worked on-air in Houston, Chicago, San Francisco and, for the past twenty-five years, in Los Angeles.
Since arriving in L.A., he has earned two Billboard Awards for broadcast excellence among many other honors. He has hosted numerous syndicated radio shows over the years including "The Music of Black America," a
twenty-four-hour radio special co-hosted by Lou Rawls and later turned into a weekly, two-hour show. He also hosted, among other shows, "The Budweiser Concert Hour" and "Highlights," which included mini-segments
hosted by Kareem Abdul Jabbar (the basketball Jabbar), actor Dorian Harewood and blues master B.B. King. He has also been heard on TV and in movies. His was the voice of "Motown 25" and most of the Motown specials that
graced NBC and Showtime in the '80s. If you listen carefully you can hear his voice in movies such as "New Jack City" and "Dead Presidents." He is also heard regularly as the voice of various record commercials
on BET and VH-1, especially. Today, he airs on Los Angeles R&B oldies station KACE in addition to being the RealAudio-delivered voice of The R&B Page
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