Daniel Johnston
Daniel Johnston was born in Sacramento, California, United States on January 22nd, 1961 and is the Folk Singer. At the age of 58, Daniel Johnston biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, songs, and networth are available.
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Daniel Dale Johnston (January 22, 1961 – September 11, 2019) was an American singer-songwriter and graphic artist who was recognized as a key figure in outland, lo-fi, and alternative music scene.
The bulk of his work was based on cassettes made alone in his house, and his music was often praised for its "pure" and "childlike" qualities.
While working at a McDonald's in Austin, Texas, he gathered a local following in the 1980s by giving out cassettes of his music.
Kurt Cobain of Nirvana was shown wearing a T-shirt that featured artwork from Johnston's 1983 album Hi, How Are You.
The Devil and Daniel Johnston's 2005 film The Devil and Daniel Johnston chronicled his battles with mental illness.
He died as a result of what is believed to have been a heart attack in 2019.
Early life
Johnston was born in Sacramento, California, and grew up in New Cumberland, West Virginia. Mabel Ruth Voyles Johnston (1923–2010), William Dale "Bill" Johnston's youngest of five children (1922–2017) and Mabel Ruth Voyles Johnston (1923–2010). He began recording music in the late 1970s on a $59 Sanyo monaural boombox, performing and playing piano as well as the chord organ. Following graduation from Oak Glen High School, Johnston spent a few weeks at Abilene Christian University in West Texas before dropping out. He later attended the Kent State University, East Liverpool, art program, where he performed Songs of Pain and More Songs of Pain.
Career
In 1984, Johnston began working at McDonald's and handed out cassettes in the store. As Johnston moved to Austin, Texas, he began to attract the local press's notice and increased in number by the act of giving out tapes to people he encountered. Live performances were well-attended and eagerly awaited. His local reputation earned him his appearance in a 1985 episode of MTV's "New Sincerity" music festival in Austin.
Johnston visited New York City in 1988 and worked with producer Mark Kramer in his Noise New York studio. It was Johnston's first experience in a professional recording environment after a decade of home-made cassette recordings. During the 1990s, his mental stability worsened. Johnston released the album It's Spooky in 1989 as a bandmate of Jad Fair of the band Half Japanese.
Johnston appeared at a music festival in Austin, Texas, in 1990. Johnston, a private two-seater plane piloted by Bill, had a bizarre psychotic episode; assuming he was Casper the Friendly Ghost, Johnston removed the key from the plane's ignition and tossed it outside. And though "there was nothing down there but trees," his father, a former U.S. Air Force pilot, was able to safely crash-land the plane. Despite the plane's demise, Johnston and his father returned with only minor injuries. Johnston was admitted involuntarily to a mental hospital as a result of this incident.
Kurt Cobain's interest in Johnston soared when he was photographed wearing a T-shirt containing the front image of Johnston's album Hi, How Are You? Everett True is a television journalist who received a T-shirt from Everett True. In 1993, Cobain listed Yip/Jump Music as one of his favorite albums in his journal. Despite Johnston's being in a mental hospital at the time, a bidding war was on display for him. Metallica was on the label's roster and he was convinced that they were Satanic and would hurt him, and he feared that they were dangerous and would hurt him, as well as losing Jeff Tartakov, the company's long-serving manager. He signed with Atlantic Records in February 1994 and then in September Fun, a Butthole Surfers product. It was a company setback. Atlantic dropped Johnston from the brand in June 1996.
How Are You? The Sound Exchange record store in Austin, Texas, hired Johnston in 1993 to create a mural of the Hi, How Are You? From the album's front cover, the frog (also known as "Jeremiah the Innocent") was the subject of its "Jeremiah the Innocent." Following the closure of the record store in 2003, the building remained unoccupied until 2004, when Baja Fresh, a Mexican grill company, took over and decided to remove the mural from the wall. A group of people who lived in the area begged the developers and contractors to keep the mural intact. How Are You, a Thai restaurant built in 2018. How Are You? In January 2020, Thailand's How can You Close, the building is empty.
The Late Great Daniel Johnston, a two-disc compilation, was released in 2004 by Johnston. With the second disc featuring Johnston's original recordings of the songs, covers of his songs by artists including Tom Waits, Beck, TV on the Radio, Jad Fair, Eels, Bright Eyes, Calvin Johnson, Death Cab for Cutie, Sparklehorse, The Flaming Lips, and Starlight Mints were included in the first album. In 2005, Infernal Bridegroom Productions, a Texas-based theater company, was granted a Multi-Arts Production/MAP Fund grant to work with Johnston to create a rock opera based on his music, titled Speeding Motorcycle.
Jeff Feuerzeig produced a documentary about Johnston, The Devil, and Daniel Johnston, which was four years in the making, compiles some of Johnston's undiscovered video footage from the years to represent his life and music. At the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, the film received acclaim for its strong directorship. The film also piqued more interest in Johnston's career, as well as increased his fame as a touring artist. Welcome to My World, Johnston's label, Eternal Yip Eye Music, launched his first greatest-hits compilation in 2006.
Johnston toured extensively around the world during the next two years and continued to attract national attention. His artwork has been seen in galleries including in London's Aquarium Gallery, Clementine Gallery, New York's Clementine Gallery, and the Liverpool Biennial in 2006 and 2008, and in 2009, his work was on view at "The Museum of Love" at the Verge Gallery in Sacramento, California. Dick Johnston, Johnston's brother and manager, announced in 2008 that "a film contract based on the artist's life and music had been inked" with a tentative 2011 release." He also said that a contract had been struck with Converse for a "signature collection" Daniel Johnston shoes. Converse had scrapped the scheme later, according to Dick Johnston. In early 2008, a Jeremiah the Innocent collectible figurine was introduced in limited runs in four different shades. Adjustable Productions released Johnston's first concert DVD, The Angel and Daniel Johnston Live at the Union Chapel, a 2007 film made in Islington, London.
On October 6, 2009, Is and Always Was announced on Eternal Yip Eye Music. Matt Groening had chosen Johnston to appear at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival, which he curated in May 2010, in Minehead, England, in 2009. Hi, How Are You, a Dr. Fun Fun and Smashing Studios franchised an iPhone platform game earlier this year. The game is similar to Frogger, but it does not include Johnston's art and music. Although Johnston was involved in its early stages and adored it, he was unfamiliar with the iPhone.
Johnston unveiled his first comic book Space Ducks – An Infinite Comic Book of Musical Greatness at SXSW, published by BOOM! Studios. The comic book has ties-in with the Space Ducks album and the iOS version. On several collections (consisting of clothing and some accessories) showcasing his artwork, Johnston collaborated with skateboarding and clothing company Supreme.
Jung Kim, a Brooklyn-based photographer, unveiled her photo book and traveling exhibition with Johnston titled DANIEL JOHNSTON, a collaboration that began in 2008 when Kim first met Johnston and started photographing him on the road and at his home in Waller, Texas. This photography book was published on March 13, 2013, containing five years of documentation about Johnston. The opening exhibition at SXSW featured a special performance by Johnston as well as tribute performances led by Jason Sebastian Russo, who was formerly of Mercury Rev. In London, England, the second exhibition on display in May and June 2013 featured a special appearance by Johnston, as well as tribute performances by the UK band Charlie Boyer and the Voyeurs with Steffan Halperin of the Klaxons. The New York City opening of the exhibition, which featured special tribute performances led by Pierce and Glen Hansard of The Swell Season and The Frames, was hosted by Jason Pierce of Spiritualized.
Hi, How Are You Daniel Johnston?, a short documentary about Johnston's life, was released on November 15, 2015, starring Johnston as his 2015 self and Gabriel Sunday of Archie's Final Project as Johnston's 1983 self. Lana Del Rey and Mac Miller were among the executive producers for the film.
In July 2017, Johnston announced that he would be stepping down from live performance and would embark on a final five-date tour that fall. Throughout the tour, Johnston was backed by a group that had been influenced by his music: The Preservation All-Stars in Philadelphia, The Districts and Modern Baseball in Philadelphia, Jeff Tweedy in Chicago, with Built to Spill for the final two dates in Vancouver, B.C. Seattle, Washington, and Seattle, Washington.