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Alexz Johnson

The singer-songwriter Alexz Johnson

Alexz Johnson (born 4 November 1986 ) is a singer, songwriter and actress Canada , known for her role in ' Final Destination 3 , but best known for playing the role of Jude Harrison the teen drama series Instant Star where her performances have been nominated three times for a Gemini Award. Biography

She made her debut as an actress, but is best known for winning the Gemini Award for the role of Jude Harrison in Instant Star series for teenagers, and for his vocal performance on the 4 Soundtrack Series. She was nominated three times for a Gemini Award, she won in October 2008. It is also known for her roles in Final Destination 3 and So Weird, and his interpretation of Saturn Girl in Smallville.

Alexz Johnson Spencer was born in New Westminster, British Columbia in Canada, it is the sixth of ten children. One of his sisters is a stage actress and her brother Brendan is a musician with whom she often collaborates. From the age of 3 years, Alexz sang often for his large family. At age 7, she took singing lessons, participating in festivals with the local choir, and performed solo at the school. She has participated in numerous competitions and has performed the national anthem of Canada at the age of eleven years was projected on television on a national channel. It is this performance that earned him the beginning of his growing success. In her country she was often considered the "Celine Dion of the West Coast" and sang the national anthem at basketball games, hockey ...

Johnson first enrolled in singing lessons at age 6 and took classical voice training (including opera) for at least 8 years, most of his lessons were made by Joseph Shore, a baritone opera fame and music teacher in the Vancouver area. She Is Said To Have a four-octave range. They say she is four octaves. She also showed an interest in writing songs and co-wrote a song of So Weird. After the end of the series, she co-wrote with his brother. In 2002, after some small concerts, Alexz focuses on his musical career. Several record company offered him contracts but it has posed some conditions, wanting control of the creative and keep your hand on the songwriting.

When the site was Alexz posted Nearby Attractions of 1999-2000, there were 2 demos listening: "Sunshine Reigns" and "Dream About You" (which she co-wrote for the series So Weird). In 2001, Alexz teamed with the producers and songwriters, composers and composer-songwriter-composer team of Johnny Elkins and CJ Vanston and had a more bubblegum pop sound.

With his work with Vanston and Elkins ending around 2003, Alexz has ended up working with his brother on demos that showed a new direction, with deep lyrics, a guitar in the foreground and voices stronger. It was this kind of songs that included a CD of demos she sent to directors of Instant Star with his audition tape.

Not content to sing for charity events and fairs, it opens the "Variety Club Show" in duet with Bob McGrath, and it happens to Eve at Planet Hollywood when she was only 12 years!

During 2001, Alexz has worked with World Vision, which had on its official website a selection of tee shirts designed by herself that fans could buy and some for autographs. Unfortunately, there were production problems and T-shirts were not selling. Alexz apologized on his website and has repaid all persons who had ordered. In 2002, she has premiered at the dinner party of celebrities from Wayne Gretzky and auction, held in Edmonton, Alberta, to raise money for charity Children Ronald McDonald's.

During So Weird, Alexz visited Nashville Kids Fair. During his time in Nashville, Johnson ended up visiting sick children in a local hospital. The trip was made through sensitization by Disney Channel.

In 2002 and 2003, Johnson focused on her music, but decided to play with several charities. She worked with David Foster, the opening of its charitable activities for the David Foster. After the first part of the second season of Instant Star on The N, she also made an announcement of volunteering with the aim of helping victims of Hurricane Katrina.

On November 21, 2008, Johnson was a special guest of the Women in Leadership (an organization of Vancouver to promote the role of women in the media) foundation called Superwomen & Friends - A Red Carpet Gala.

Alexz sang all the songs that her character Jude Harrison in Instant Star.Elle wrote and co-wrote 5 songs from the first soundtrack, including "24 hours", "Let Me Fall," "Criminal," "Skin," and "That Girl", which Alexz wrote when she was 14. It n'crivat not the songs the next 2 seasons preferring to concentrate on writing his solo album. However Brendan continuata to write songs for the series.

Subsequently Alexz decided to turn to comedy, where she excelled. She auditioned for commercials, TV show "Most Talented Kids" ... without apparent success. The luck changed when she auditioned for the series So Weird, for their last season they were looking for a young actress who knows how to sing well. He was offered the role immediately after his performance. Alexz has started to assemble his "fanclub" in proving his talent as an actress & singer. She has starred in 26 episodes between 2000 and 2001, we discovered many songs such as "What You Do," "One In A Million", "Never Give Up", "Cause You're Watching Over Me" "Push Me, Pull You" and "One In A Million World" in duet with Mackenzie Phillips.

Alexz has continued with several film projects, including his role of Angel in Selling innocence and guest roles in series like The Chris Isaak Show, Cold Squad and The Collector.

In 2004, Alexz sent a tape to the producers of Degrassi: The Next Generation for their future show Instant Star. They look for a Canadian teen actress and singer to play the role of Jude Harrison. The first audition tape has been Stephen Stohn, the producer of the series, was that of Alexz, and he was convinced that was exactly the person who held the role perfectly.

After the first season, Instant Star was nominated for 3 Gemini Awards for Best Youth Program or Series. The nominations included: Best Series, Best Performance (Alexz) and Best Direction. The series won the award for Best Direction. On August 28, 2007, the series has received three Gemini Awards additional for Best Series or program for young people - two for Best Direction and one for Best Performance (Alexz in the episode I Fought the Law).

Alexz then decided to audition for the role of Julie-Christensen for the thriller Final Destination 3. She attended the hearing in any black claiming she was in a bad mood. Thus she landed the role of Erin Ulmer, a character with a bad attitude. His performance drew praise from some critics, even a (Writing for the Philadelphia Inquirer) said: "The characters are so obnoxious, you are happy to see them go. Except two: the goth couple Ian (Kris Lemche) and Erin (Alexz Johnson). It's a cynical know-it-all, like Dennis Miller with black nails, it is like Parker Posey with round black eyes ..

On August 26, 2008, Alexz was nominated again for the third time for Gemin Awoard. On October 21, 2008, she won the awards for Best Performance in the episode "Let It Be.

Instant Star Alexz continued for its fourth season and expected to return for the fifth. The series was discontinued at the end of Season 4, while CTV and The N 2 with all financial problems. This evil Alexz allowed to concentrate on his music.

Alexz was one of the finalists to take the lead role in the remake of Black Christmas and in the movie Brave New Girl vase on the novel A Mother's Gift, Britney and Lynne Spears.

On January 15, 2009, Alexz has appeared in an episode of Smallville, Legion, as Saturn Girl. She also played in Devil's Diary and Stranger With My Face.

Most records for the first album were not written by Alexz 2005, but had not yet found a label to help create and remove the songs. In early 2006 she announced she was leaving the independent label Orange Records, which launched the first 2 Soundtrack Instant Star, in search of something to be promoted as an artist and not his fictional counterpart Jude Harrison Instant Star.

After a showcase in New York, Alexz met several record companies and producers including Martin Terefe, Guy Sigsworth and Marius DeVries. Finally, Alexz chooses Capitol Records, who authorized him to work with Paul Buckmaster if his brother was the main producer of his creation.

By writing songs for her album, she has worked with the English writers Martin Terefe and Sacha Skarbek and producer / songwriter Brio Taliaferro. On June 25, 2007 made an appearance in the Canadian version of MTV, where she confided all her songs were written and recorded. She planned to find a label in the coming months and hoped to release the album in the winter.

On February 15, 2008, she announced on her MySpace, she signed with Epic Records, until the album so in the fall.

The producer of the album becomes after Greg Wells of Alexz has been presented to him by his brother, Rob Wells, one of the songwriters of Instant Star. Alexz has also worked with multi-instrumentalist Luis Conte and the legendary Paul Buckmaster string expert.

On June 11, 2008, Epic has posted 5 new songs from the upcoming album Alexz on her MySpace. She hoped the album would come out in September 2009, followed by tours throughout Europe and North America.

Before the announcement of the date of the album, Epic Records Alexz removed from their list of artist. At the launch of its official website August 11, 2009, she published a word EPIC with announcing sacked a third of its artists, and it was part of them. In cosquence of that, she wants to do a totally different album independently with his brother Brendan. She also said she would like the unreleased songs from the album with Epic Records are created, but to date, Epic still holds the rights.

Laydee Spence Music will allow the company to Alexz out his music. After publishing the list of songs from her album on her official website, asking fans to choose between 5 excerpts of songs, the single from the album Voodoo will Trip Around The World. The release of his album is the culmination of several years of battle to gain recognition as a songwriter and interpreter of his songs.

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Albums series Instant Star

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