About Johnny Hooker

"All the ideologies are dead. We just wanna dance." It is from this concept that Johnny Hooker takes off to a journey in the deepest core of night life, and modern clubber way-of-life. Bringing a sometimes dark but full of energy club-oriented music, that speaks directly about the emptyness of a generation that has no ideologies, or either knows what´s happening to the world around them. Living from image to image, from glamour to dust. It has come a time when dreams aren´t enough. Don´t dream. Be It. Johnny Hooker is considered to be one of the most promising artists of the new generation, and with only 19 years old, and 5 of musical career has earned several awards and breakthrough reviews from the specialized critics, that has praised him as "an artist of the future" and "the most curious and emblematic figure of the 00´s in Brazilian music". He was for two times finalist of the Microfonia contest, a festival which intention is to find the best in new contemporary music, and was nominated for Best New Artist in the Recife Rock Awards 2004. Johnny has also played with great names of Brazilian pop and underground music through the years such as Los Hermanos, Cachorro Grande, Mombojó, Vamoz!, Mellotrons, and Montage. In 2007 Johnny Hooker made a guest appearance in the Rec Beat Festival, the largest independent music festival of Recife worldwide known carnival. Recife, also known as Hellcife. The city of the historical music movement Mangue Beat, which preached "from mud to chaos" will never be the same. From chaos to glitter.