This is The Bio. Of Johnny Duncan From Dublin Texas. I worked for and performed with Johnny for Six years all over the world. You'll never find a nicer human being or friend. I miss my friend but I know that I'll see him in the great here after and sang with him agian
"You know, what Nashville needs right now is a good, strong baritone voice, and I'm just the guy to give it to them!" Johnny Duncan leans back, laughs and means every word he's saying.
John Richard Duncan, known to millions of country fans as Johnny, has returned to the recording studio in as fine and resonant a voice as ever after a self-imposed hiatus.
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"Country tastes have changed to some degree," he acknowledges. "I'm not going to limit myself. We're doing some two-steps and ballads, yeah, but I'm cutting some country rock as well. It cooks. Hey, you can line dance to this stuff."
Duncan's early life was steeped in West Texas music. He picked this up naturally as a boy listening to his mother play rhythm guitar in his uncle's country band. Later, he began sharpening his vocal skills, influenced by his early idols Eddy Arnold, Perry Como, Jim Reeves, and Frank Sinatra. Johnny was born into a musical family. He is very proud of his talented and famous cousins, including Eddie Seals, Jimmy Seals of Seals & Croft, and country singer Dan Seals. After playing and singing with his musically-gifted family for a few years, he decided to move where the bigger action was"Nashville, Tennessee. The dream began...
Starting out in Music City isn't always easy. Early jobs came in the form of construction work and progressed to a local radio station, where he was an air personality. During this last stint, he began his on-going songwriting career. The radio station afforded him accessibility to artists, and he was able to start pitching them his songs.
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