{"id":264,"date":"2017-09-02T20:21:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T20:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/?p=264"},"modified":"2017-09-12T20:33:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T20:33:22","slug":"steph-johnson-community-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/02\/steph-johnson-community-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Steph Johnson: Community Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.10\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script>\n<script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<div id=\"attachment_273\" style=\"width: 906px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-273\" class=\"wp-image-273 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Steph Johnson.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"896\" height=\"814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Steph%20Johnson.png 896w, https:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Steph%20Johnson-300x273.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Steph%20Johnson-330x300.png 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 896px) 100vw, 896px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-273\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Carey Braswell<\/p><\/div>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-264-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Steph_Johnson_Final.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Steph_Johnson_Final.mp3\">http:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Steph_Johnson_Final.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Steph Johnson might just be the perfect voice to represent San Diego&#8217;s homeless people. Anyone who has basked in the sub-tropical breeze along that city&#8217;s gleaming waterfront boardwalk knows that homelessness is a big problem. Steph Johnson has a soft spot for &#8216;her people&#8217; not only because she has a big heart, but because she grew up in a less than middle income household where she struggled to get the resources she needed to learn music.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the demands of making a living and the lure of a secure job in banking, Johnson found her voice, at age 21, after losing track of time one day when she dusted off her father&#8217;s old acoustic guitar, singing and strumming for 8 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The Jazz Shed had the opportunity to sit down with Steph Johnson this July to discuss her unique vocal and guitar stylings; part jazz, part soul, and more. Our conversation quickly expanded beyond just music to her blossoming career as a community builder and advocate for homeless people through a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephjohnsonband.com\/outreach\">community choir<\/a> she has recently co-founded and which is garnering national media attention.<\/p>\n<p>Please enjoy this enticing Jazz Shed interview. Share and comment.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy this bonus track, &#8220;Be Light&#8221;, from Steph&#8217;s latest album, <a href=\"https:\/\/store.cdbaby.com\/cd\/stephjohnson4\">Music is Art<\/a>:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-264-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/01%20Be%20Light.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/01%20Be%20Light.mp3\">http:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/01%20Be%20Light.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-show-count=\"false\">Tweet<\/a> <div class=\"fb-like\" \n    data-href=https:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/02\/steph-johnson-community-voice\/\n    data-layout=\"standard\" \n    data-action=\"like\" \n    data-show-faces=\"false\">\n  <\/div><style media=\"screen\" type=\"text\/css\">\n.fb-like{\n    position:relative;\n    top:-6px;\n}\n<\/style>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steph Johnson might just be the perfect voice to represent San Diego&#8217;s homeless people. Anyone who has basked in the sub-tropical breeze along that city&#8217;s gleaming waterfront boardwalk knows that homelessness is a big problem. Steph Johnson has a soft &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/02\/steph-johnson-community-voice\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[133,132,130,129,134,136,135,131,127,126,128],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","tag-aretha-franklin","tag-ella-fitzgerald","tag-homelessness","tag-jazz-guitar","tag-joni-mitchell","tag-kind-of-blue","tag-miles-davis","tag-san-diego","tag-soul-jazz","tag-steph-johnson","tag-vocal-jazz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}