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Michael Johns and the Rising on The Sharon Osbourne Show circa 2003

Allison / Java — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:32:38 +0000

Awww, he’s just a baby. HUGE thanks to “TKN1964″ for finding this gem and posting it on our forums.

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Michael Johns and Lebo Kgasapane – River Of Life

Allison / Java — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:53:58 +0000

This is a fan made video posted on our boards by “Gonia”. Apparently, this beautiful song from Michael’s pre-idol days has been floating around the MJ fandom for a couple of weeks now but it’s new to us so it needs to be posted.

I found this bit of info on Lebo after do some Google research. If you would like to add more please leave a comment on this post.

Lebo Kgasapane was a 21 year old South African rape victim who died of AIDS at the young age of 22. Her dying wish was to sing on a CD the world would hear. Leaving only a 60 second audio cassette behind, her wish is coming true.

Absolutely beautiful.

UPDATED MJO reader and commenter, BeckEye left this information she found about the song.

Here is a little more info from Missfodus Publishing/Jeff Foxworth’s MySpace blog:

Friday, November 17, 2006
“River of Life” song info
Category: Music

Lebo Kgasapane was a student at the Ithuteng Trust in Soweto, South Africa. She contracted the AIDS virus at a young age and lost her battle at when she was only 22. Lebo was a singer with a beautiful voice, and her dream was to have the world hear her sing. One day during the making of the film “Ithuteng: Never Stop Learning”, Lebo sang a song she wrote about her school to the filmmakers of “Ithuteng”. The filmmakers then took the song and began passing it along to different artists for them to do their own interpretation of the song. This is one such version of the song.

Song Credits:

written by Lebo Kgasapane, Michael Johns and Jeff Foxworth

Vocals: Michael and Lebo

Guitars and Piano: Jeff

recording, engineering and bass: Rye Randa

drums: Randy Cooke recorded at:Woodcliff Studio

additional vocals: Kara Britz and The Dorsey High School Choir

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Michael Johns pre-Idol music – download The Rising “Future Unknown” album on iTunes

Allison / Java — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:26:50 +0000

Have you had a chance to listen to music from Michael’s old band The Rising? If not, then I have a treat for you. The Rising’s CD “Future Unknown” has just been made available on iTunes. Click the image below to download. iTunes will open automatically so make sure you have it downloaded before you begin or it will not work.

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Michael Johns in Film – photos

Allison / Java — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:41:37 +0000

Gallery Update! I just uploaded a bunch of photos from Michael’s time with the Atlanta based band, Film.

Thanks to Film for sending in these pics!

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Michael Lee The Rising (videos)

Allison / Java — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:09:34 +0000

Big thanks to our resident Media Queen from the forums, BlueMonday, for posting these. These are live performance videos from Michael’s time with the band, The Rising.

You must have Quicktime installed to watch the videos.

Redemption
Cradle
Lie To Me
So Alive
Coming Down

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Download Michael Johns Music

Allison / Java — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:03:50 +0000

Michael’s former band’s cd (“Rolling” by Film) is available on Amazon and iTunes!

Note: if you click the iTunes link, your iTunes player will open and go straight to the music store. You must have iTunes already installed on your computer for this link to work.

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Michael Lee Johns – American Idol – VIDEO

Allison / Java — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:06:07 +0000

Pre-idol music from Michael Lee Johns.

Film – Coming Down

Film – Q

Film – Chemical Wonder

The Rising – Cradle

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