What do Lamont Johnson and Harmony Korine have in common?
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Lamont Johnson Ernest Lamont Johnson Jr. (September 30, 1922 – October 24, 2010) was an American actor and film director who has appeared in and directed many television shows and movies. He won two Emmy Awards.
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Harmony Korine Harmony Korine (born January 4, 1973) is an American film director and screenwriter. He is best known for writing "Kids" and for writing and directing "Spring Breakers", "Gummo", "Julien Donkey-Boy" and "Mister Lonely". His film "Trash Humpers" premiered at Toronto International Film Festival and won the main prize, the DOX Award, at CPH:DOX in November 2009. His most recent film, "Spring Breakers", was released in 2013.
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Emmanuel Lamur Emmanuel Andrew Lamur (born June 8, 1989) is an American football linebacker for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). He was signed by the Cincinnati Bengals as an undrafted free agent in 2012. He played college football at Kansas State.
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Fred Beckett Fred Lee Beckett (January 23, 1917 – January 30, 1946) was an American jazz trombonist. Beckett was born in Nettleton, Mississippi, and began playing horn in high school. His professional career began in Kansas City in the 1930s, and soon after he landed a job with Eddie Johnson's Crackerjacks in St. Louis, Missouri. He played with Duke Wright, Tommy Douglas, Buster Smith, and Andy Kirk over the next few years, as well as time in a territory band with Prince Stewart and a gig in Omaha, Nebraska with Nat Towles. Later in the decade he played with Harlan Leonard.
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Stay Jay William Kojo Johnson, (born January 5, 1986) known by the stage name Stay Jay, is a Ghanaian hip hop recording artist from Tema, Ghana. He won the best new artiste of the year at the 2012 Vodafone Ghana music awards and also gained 6 other nominations
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Matt Johnson (keyboardist) Matt Johnson (born 3 February 1969, Bournemouth, England) is a British keyboardist who plays for the alternative jazz band Jamiroquai.
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Dan Johnson (American football) Dan Johnson (born May 17, 1960) is a former professional American football player who played tight end for seven seasons for the Miami Dolphins. Johnson told ESPN's John Barr on January 28, 2011 that he took about 1000 pain killers per month during his playing days, as a result of the numerous injuries and broken bones he suffered. Teammates nicknamed him "King of Pain" as a result of all the broken bones he had during his career.
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Beautiful Losers (film) Beautiful Losers is a 2008 documentary filmed by director Aaron Rose and co-directed by Joshua Leonard. It was produced by Sidetrack Films in association with BlackLake Productions, and stars several artists including Harmony Korine, writer of independent cult films "Kids" and "Gummo" and former graffiti artist Stephen Powers II
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Fundisha Fundisha Johnson is an American R&B singer. She sang with Lil' Bow Wow and Jermaine Dupri on 2002's "Basketball" and on "Thank You" before issuing solo albums and singles.
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Jeff Johnson (musician) Jeff Johnson (born 1956) is a musician residing in Camano Island, Island County, Washington, United States. Stemming from a progressive-rock background, he works within a contemporary artistic-Christian framework, and precedes much of the new-age music to which much of his music would later be compared. He has made collaborations with various other well-known musicians, including Sandy Simpson, Brian Dunning, and Phil Keaggy. His works also include collaborations with contemporary author Stephen Lawhead.
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Curtis Robertson Jr. Curtis Robertson Jr. (born 1953) is an American bassist, guitarist and songwriter. He was once married to former Motown singer Syreeta, former wife of Stevie Wonder. Curtis was influential in the development of Syreeta's music and recorded and co-wrote music with Syreeta.
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Eric D. Johnson Eric Donald Johnson (born June 7, 1976) is an American singer-songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known as the leader of the influential folk-rock band Fruit Bats, and for his frequent collaborations with bands such as The Shins, Vetiver and Califone. He has also scored films, most notably Our Idiot Brother and Smashed. In 2014 it was announced he would begin a new solo recording project called EDJ.
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Waylon Jennings Waylon Arnold Jennings (pronounced ; June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. Jennings began playing guitar at eight and began performing at 14 on KVOW radio. His first band was The Texas Longhorns. Jennings worked as a DJ on KVOW, KDAV, KYTI, and KLLL. In 1958, Buddy Holly arranged Jennings's first recording session, of "Jole Blon" and "When Sin Stops (Love Begins)". Holly hired him to play bass. In Clear Lake, Iowa, Jennings gave up his seat on the ill-fated flight that crashed and killed Holly, J. P. Richardson, Ritchie Valens, and pilot Roger Peterson.
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Li'l Millet McKinley James Millet, Jr. (October 25, 1935 – June 29, 1997) was an American rhythm and blues pianist, bass player, singer and songwriter, best known for co-writing and first performing the songs "Rich Woman" and "All Around the World" with his group, Li'l Millet and His Creoles.
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Ayatollah (record producer) Lamont Dorrell, known as Ayatollah, is a hip-hop record producer from Queens, New York who has produced for predominantly New York-based rappers including Mos Def, Talib Kweli, R.A. The Rugged Man, Tragedy Khadafi, Wordsworth, Vast Aire, Afu-Ra, Guru, M.O.P., Inspectah Deck, Cormega, Ghostface Killah as well as many others. R.A. the Rugged Man had said in an interview that he was the first person to ever buy a beat from Ayatollah. Broadly speaking Ayatollah's production encompasses a soulful, authentic east coast hip-hop sound which has brought him steady success and acclaim since the late 1990s.
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Lamont Pearson Lamont Pearson, (born February 18, 1971 in Washington, D.C.) is an American professional boxer who currently resides in Cheltenham, Maryland. His professional record stands at 23-4-1 with 12 knockouts. Each of his four losses have come to current or former world champions.
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Harmony (John Conlee song) "Harmony" is a song written by Jimbeau Hinson and Rick Ellsworth, and by American country music artist John Conlee. It was released in February 1986 as the first single and title track from the album "Harmony". The song reached #10 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
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Larry Johnson (musician) Larry Alonzo Johnson (May 15, 1938 – August 6, 2016) was an American blues singer and guitarist.
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Reneé Austin Reneé Austin is an American rhythm and blues, gospel, and soul singer, songwriter and actor. She has a wide vocal range, and has opened for Los Lobos, Robert Cray, Delbert McClinton, Blues Traveler, Big Head Todd & the Monsters and more. She released three albums during her career, and supplied backing vocals to the Lamont Cranston Band's 1997 album, "Roll with Me", and on Tommy Castro's 2005 album, "Soul Shaker". Austin was also part of a group of women who performed in Morgan Freeman's Blues Divas, as well as singing for a live WWE season premier, whose television audience was six million. Her singing voice has been compared by critics to those of Janis Joplin, Tina Turner, Gladys Knight, Anita Baker, Regina Belle, even a female Michael McDonald.
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Stonebone Stonebone is an album by American jazz trombonists Kai Winding and J. J. Johnson featuring performances recorded in 1969 and released on the CTI label only in Japan.
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Konton Kai/Konton is a collaborative album by Bill Laswell, Yoshi Otani, Manabu Murata and Munenori Senju. It released on March 2, 2011 by P-Vine Records.
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Geir Johnson Geir Johnson (born 1953), is a composer, writer and initiator of culture projects living at Nesodden outside Oslo. He was born in Fredrikstad, and received his first musical training as a soprano soloist in boys' choirs in Oslo, followed by music training in piano and singing, as well as choral conducting studies with Knut Nystedt. His own performance career spans from many years of choral conducting, via a short career as singer and keyboard player in a rock band, to performance artist in a multi-artist collective titled The TRASH Ensemble.