Biography
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Born In
New York, New York, United States
Johanna Samuels is an American singer-songwriter.
Samuels grew up on the music of Lennon and McCartney, Bob Dylan, Elton John, Paul Simon, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Van Morrison, The Band. Harmonizing in a choir triggered a passion for contemporary pop artists who thrived on melody: folks like Elliott Smith, Ben Kweller, Jon Brion, and Aimee Mann. During that time, she wrote and collaborated with friends in her hometown of Los Angeles as she pieced together her first two projects, A Little Bit of Both and Lemonade. Both of which were little more than a collection of demos, produced and recorded on her laptop. Upon returning to Brooklyn, she wanted to produce something cleaner, thus Giant Fantasy Life was born. Recorded at a friend’s studio on Sundays for the better part of a year, the album is named after a line from one of Johanna’s favorite Elliott Smith songs. The songs deal with the discrepancies between the physical world and that of the mind, and the complications that come with reconciling the two. “That’s what the mind is,” Johanna says, “a giant fantasy life.”
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