John Charles "Johnny" Goudie (born October 14, 1968 in Miami, Florida, U.S.) is a Cuban-American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumental musician, record producer and actor based in Austin, Texas.
Raised in the Miami, Florida area, Goudie comes from a family of Cuban medical doctors. At age 13 after attending a Cheap Trick concert, Johnny started his first band and decided to pursue a career in music. His family was supportive (his father had also...
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John Charles "Johnny" Goudie (born October 14, 1968 in Miami, Florida, U.S.) is a Cuban-American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumental musician, record producer and actor based in Austin, Texas.
Raised in the Miami, Florida area, Goudie comes from a family of Cuban medical doctors. At age 13 after attending a Cheap Trick concert, Johnny started his first band and decided to pursue a career in music. His family was supportive (his father had also been a singer in a band). On October 13, 1985, when Johnny was 16, his mother, Natalie Antonetti, was beaten over the head in her apartment. She died 18 days later. The crime went unsolved for 23 years until a tip led police to arrest Antonetti's ex-boyfriend Dennis Davis.. The traumatic loss of his mother had a profound influence on Goudie's subsequent songwriting.
In the mid 1980s while living in The Woodlands area of Houston, Texas Johnny started a funk/soul band called Panjadrum . Shortly after recording an EP, Panjadrum broke up in 1990,...
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