Artist Spotlight: Sean C. Johnson

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Sean C. Johnson is an artist who is a very good singer as well as a rapper. In balancing the two mediums on Circa 1993, he says “I wanted it to be natural. I didn’t want it to be cliché, so I did whatever the song or instrumental required.” In telling the stories that he wanted to tell, some of them required him to rap while he felt that other stories were best communicated through singing.

Artistically it gave me some tools to express my story.

He was born in Tampa, Florida to a father in the U.S. Army. His father’s job caused him to move around a lot, so he lived in Germany, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Indiana throughout his youth. Sean’s mom was a music teacher, so music was popular in the Johnson household. He grew up singing in choirs, and in 1993 he and his cousins started a rap group in Tampa, Florida.

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They They would often listen to “Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thang,” a new and popular Dr. Dre and Snoop Dog song at that time. “It was all around us and God in his sovereignty used that song to spark an interest in me in music. That’s when I really started getting into rapping.”

Though Sean and his cousins started a rap group, he stopped rapping shortly after, realizing that girls liked guys who can sing. “As I got older, my dreams of trying to be an artist faded, but I never stopped singing.”