Brad Vee Johnson

Who is Brad Vee Johnson?

Brad Vee Johnson is an American singer. Born and raised in New York City in the United States his love for music and singing was formed at an early age by the influence of his mother singing in the church gospel choir and his father being a jazz pianist. He studied music at the High School for the Performing Arts under Dorothy McDaniels and studied voice with legendary jazz singer Marie Blake. Ms. Blake offered him is first public singing appearance at now defunct Five Oaks Piano Bar and Supper Club located on Grove Street in Greenwich Village in New York City. He also studied acting at HB Studios with William Hickey and acclaimed actor coach. He relocated to Europe in 1986 where he took up residence in Stockholm, Sweden. There continued his singing career and furthered it by performing in various musicals in Scandinavia, Germany and the Netherlands. He also successfully started Sweden’s premiere gospel choir ONE VOICE together with singer and friend Blossom Tainton in 1994. He relocated to Romania in 2004 after a concert at the then called Tutankamon in Cluj-Napoca, Romania where he was immediately offered a record contract with Roton Records. He recorded two house/club singles with Romanian composer DJ Raoul. "Release The Fire" was used in the Heineken Thirst Competition which was held in Croatia in 2005 where Brad Vee participated together with DJ Raoul Russo. In 2006 he was key in organization a benefit concert called LOVE RUNS FREE at Sala Polivalenta in Bucharest where 22 of the top Romanian artists participated. The concerts goal was to raise awareness and funding to help the thousands of Romanian youth suffering from the HIV/AIDS virus and the stigma that it carries. He also co-wrote the theme song LOVE STILL RUNS FREE together with Danish artist/composer Rasmus Fjellstedt. The song was recorded in a WE ARE THE WORLD-style using 10 Romanian artists: Paula Seling, Mihai Traistariu, Mihai Onila, Mihaela Mihai, Cristina Haios, Alexandra Ungureanu, Emanuel, Nico and Andra. It also featured the musical talents Nicu Patoi on guitar and Sweden based gospel choir ONE VOICE, which Brad was instrumental in creating in 1994 and was produced by the talented Andrei Kerestely. The subsequent single and concert were broadcast on Romanian television channel TVR 1. Brad then went on to join a group called QUANTUM LEAPS which is a soul/funk/jazz group who has just completed their first album with Brad as leadsinger and co-writer of the songs.