Zachary Scot Johnson is an American singer-songwriter, born in 1982 in

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, United States. He attended

Lawrence University Lawrence University is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Appleton, Wisconsin. Founded in 1847, its first classes were held on November 12, 1849. Lawrence was the second college in the U.S. to be founded as a coeducation ...

in Appleton, Wisconsin from 2001 through 2006, where he was a triple major student in Music Performance, Theatre Arts and Psychology. He released his first album, ''

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'' in 2004, and followed that up with ''

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'' in 2008, ''

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'' in 2010, "Sad Songs" in 2017 and his self-titled record "Zachary Scot Johnson" in 2023. He has lived in or near

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for a number of years and performs locally with regularity. He has toured consistently since 2001 and opened for artists such as Shawn Colvin,

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, Rita Wilson,

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, Don Williams, Marc Cohn and

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. Starting in 2012, Zach began a

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channel entitled

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. On the channel, he records a song every day. The channel hit its 1000th consecutive day on June 2, 2015, with a duet with Jeremy Messersmith on a

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song, "

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". The channel hit its 2000th consecutive day on February 26, 2018, with a duet with Gretchen Peters on her song "Five Minutes". The channel is still currently running. Johnson records both original compositions and cover songs of favorite artists. The channel has more than 42 million total views over the first 4, 000 days. Johnson has also invited many artists to perform duets with him. Among the more than 250 artists to appear at this point are

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, Shawn Colvin, Rosanne Cash, Marc Cohn,

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of Peter, Paul and Mary, Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary,

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of ''

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'', Gaelic Storm,

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, Lisa Loeb,

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, Melissa Manchester, Nellie McKay, Kris Allen, David Wilcox, Collective Soul,

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, Richie Furay, Mary Gauthier and many more.

References

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