Johnny Cooper

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Johnny Cooper (born September 11, 1988 in Phoenix , Arizona ) is an American country and rock musician who belongs to the genre of Oklahoma-native Red Dirt music.

Life

Johnny Cooper was born on September 11, 1988 in Phoenix, Arizona to a choreographer and nightclub owner. In 1992 the family moved to Texas , where he spent much of his childhood in Wichita Falls . At a young age he played drums and later learned to play guitar. He has been performing regularly since he was 16.

In 2004 he opened - while still at school - a performance by the established Red Dirt band The Great Divide . Together with the members of the band AA Bottom, he founded the Johnny Cooper Band , consisting of Jason Brown, Cody Shaw and Randy Burch. With this line-up he also recorded his first album Live at the Pub , which was first released in 2005 and was named the best live CD of the year at the 2006 Oklahoma Music Awards.

The following year he made his studio debut Ignition , which was produced by Mike McClure . In May 2007 it was re-released by the Smith Music Group ; four of the songs also reached number 1 on the Texas Music Charts. In total, Ignition has been sold around 25,000 times.

His second studio album Follow , with which he first entered the official charts of Billboard Magazine , followed in 2009. In 2011 he released his second live album Live at the Pub II , which reached number 63 on the Billboard country charts. In the summer of 2013, the EP Red Sessions was released , which contained five new titles.

Discography

Albums

  • 2005: Live at the Pub
  • 2006: Ignition
  • 2009: Follow
  • 2011: Live at the Pub II
  • 2017: Johnny Cooper

EPs

Singles

  • 2014: Thank You

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johnny Cooper's Page ( Memento from December 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), txcountdown.ning.com (English, Internet Archive from December 22, 2008)
  2. ↑ Haley Forehand: Keeping it “About the Music”: Behind the Scenes with Johnny Cooper , texasmusictimes.com, accessed February 9, 2014 (English)
  3. ↑ Johnny Cooper 'Live at the Pub 2 "CD Release ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note . , reverbnation.com, accessed February 21, 2014 (English)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.reverbnation.com
  4. ↑ Johnny Cooper , billboard.com, accessed February 1, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Cooper, Johnny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American country and rock musician
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Phoenix , Arizona