Cynthia Johnson Musician
Cynthia Johnson is an American singer, songwriter, actress, producer and saxophone player born on 22nd April 1956 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. She is popularly known as the lead singer and saxophonist of the band Lipps Inc.which is popularly for their hit single ‘Funkytown’.In 1976 she won the Miss Black Minnesota, USA pageant.
Cynthia Johnson Husband
Cynthia is married to Ted Morgan
Cynthia Johnson Flyte Tyme
Cynthia began her career in music as the lead vocalist of Minneapolis band Flyte Tyme for seven years. She is also an accomplished saxophone player and utilized her saxophone talents in Flyte Tyme. She also acted as the songwriter for many songs. After graduating from the University of Minnesota, Morris in 1978 she played with the band for a brief time before it evolved into ‘The Time’.
Cynthia Johnson Lipps Inc.
In 1979 Cynthia Johnson became the lead vocalist of the American disco and funk group, Lipps Inc. The band released their first single ‘Rock It’ in 1979 and in the late 1979 they released their debut album ‘Mouth to Mouth’.
Cynthia Johnson Funkytown
Their second single from the album ‘Funkytown’ was a massive hit, hitting #1 in 28 countries. It spent four weeks at #1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play charts in the United States. The song was used as sound track of Shrek 2 and was also used during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy. The band received several awards among them three Billboard Music Awards and “Soul Record of the Year” by the AMOA association. After the third album ‘Designer Music’ Johnson left the band.
In January 2018 during the Super Bowl Live Cynthia was joined her bandmates from ‘ Flyte Tyme’, Terry Lewis and Jimmy Jam, and they sang “Funkytown” with an added twist.
Cynthia Johnson Sounds of Blackness
Cynthia joined Sounds of Blackness which is a three time Grammy award winning gospel group. She was vocalist on albums by Maceo Parker and Prince, on labels such as Motown, and on projects of Grammy-winning producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.
Cynthia is also a solo musician, in 2013 she released her debut album, ‘All That I Am’ on the Megabien Music label.
Cynthia Johnson Television Shows
In 2012 Cynthia began hosting the TV program “Funkytown”, a co-production of Megabien Entertainment and Radio Bremen that is part of the German Public TV network. The series featured fellow artists such as Prince, Joanne Shenandoah, Mint Condition, Ben Sidran, Desdamona, Irv Williams amongst many others. It aired in 2013 all over Europe.
In 2013 she participated in the French TV shows “Les Années Bonheur” which was shot in Paris and was broadcasted in 2014.
Cynthia Johnson Lead Vocalist
- Mouth to Mouth (1979)
- Pucker Up (1980)
- Designer Music (1981)
- Funkyworld (1992)
- Funkytown (2003)
- All That I Am (2013)
Cynthia Johnson Songs
- Hold On 4:00
- Don´t Let Them Take You Away
- I Need A Man
- This Love
- You
- Keeper Of My Heart
- So Good
- Sorry For Me
- Bless His Holy Name
- What You Gonna Do?
- This Is My World
- Eternity
- Sorry for Me
- Funkytown
- Designer Music
- How Long
- All Night Dancing
- Rock It
- Addicted to the Night
- Hold Me Down
- Tight Pair
- Jazzy
- Power
- I Need Some Cash
- Choir Practice
- Funk 108
- The Gossip Song
- Obsessed
- On to You
- There They Are
- The One
- Never Could Be Sorry
- Things Take Time
- Background Singer
- Let’s Get Back to the Floor
- Everybody Knows
- Always Lookin’