Vera Johnson (June 13, 1920 – November 9, 2007) was a
Vancouver folk singer-songwriter
A singer-songwriter is a musician who writes, composes, and performs their own musical material, including lyrics and melodies. In the United States, the category is built on the folk-acoustic tradition, although this role has transmuted thr ...
and author. She was known for creating original songs on a variety of topics, some of them controversial, including religion, sex, divorce,
censorship,
liberation
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Film and television
* ''Liberation'' (film series), a 1970–1971 series about the Great Patriotic War
* "Liberation" (''The Flash''), a TV episode
* "Liberation" (''K-9''), an episode
Gaming
* '' Liberati ...
, politics, and family.
In an autobiographical essay, Johnson recounts how she learned to sing and play music in 1949, and how she viewed her writing, whether through music, short stories, or plays, as a means for political change.
Her song "The Fountain" described the "
hippie
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protests" of 1968
Vancouver.
Discography
Live Albums
* ''Bald Eagle'' (1974)
*#The Bald Eagle
*#Homer Johnson
*#Oh Canada
*#You Can't Let Your Hair Hang Down
*#A Song for Michael
*#The Do-It-Yourself Divorce
*#Pierre Trudeau
*#The Word
*#Jesus Was a Preacher
*#Layabouts
*#The Gentle Rain of England
*#That Minx from Pinsk
* ''That's What I Believe'' (1978)
*#The Oldest Swinger in Town
*#The Fountain
*#The Indian
*#The Queerest Critter
*#Coming Home
*#The Sweetheart of Sordido V
*#Women's Liberation Blues
*#God's not Dead
*#Thomas Arkinstall
*#Mrs. Ballantyne
*#Nagamma
*#That's What I Believe
Written works
Short Stories
Essays
References
External links
Vera Johnson biography
Canadian women folk singers
1920 births
2007 deaths
20th-century Canadian women singers
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