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Molly Johnson is a Canada|Canadian singer-songwriter of pop music|pop and jazz.

Johnson began as a child performer, receiving formal training from the National Ballet School and the Banff School of Fine Arts.

The child of a white mother and a black father, Johnson's story starts in the mid-1960s when as a young grade schooler, she and her brother, Clark Johnson, were tapped by Toronto producer Ed Mirvish to appear in ''Porgy and Bess'' at the Royal Alexandra Theatre. In time ''Porgy and Bess'' was followed by ''South Pacific (musical)|South Pacific'', ''Finian's Rainbow'' and other musicals. The budding child star was soon enrolled the National Ballet School as she desired to become a choreographer. By the age of fifteen, Molly was fronting a disco band named Chocolate Affair. The group lasted just over a year.

Although she has performed as a jazz singer throughout her career, she did not release a jazz album until her self-titled solo debut in 2000. She was lead vocalist for two rock music|rock bands, Alta Moda and Infidels (band)|Infidels in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as frequent contributor to Big Sugar, who also became a prominent Canadian band in the 1990s. Both of her bands had notable hits in Canada (Alta Moda's "Julian" and Infidels' "100 Watt Bulb" and "Celebrate"), but both bands broke up (for different reasons) after ... read all