JOHNNYSWIM

Born the daughter of five-time Grammy Award winning disco singer Donna Summer, Amanda Sudano would spend summers of her youth singing in her mother’s backing band. Ramirez, fresh from graduating at the Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, first met Sudano after a Sunday service at a local church. Subsequently Ramirez held a songwriting workshop which Sudano attended and the two would start a both a fruitful romantic and musical relationship.

Despite forming in 2005, the pair’s debut release was the 2008 EP “1-4”, after which Ramirez and Sudano married and contributed to Bruce Sudano’s track “Morning Song” from his album “Life and the Romantic”. JOHNNYSWIM’s subsequent release was the 2010 three-track EP “5-8”, which was supported by a national tour and club residencies in New York and Los Angeles. Following the release of their third EP “Home, Vol. 1”, which marked the duo’s country music aesthetic, fashion brands became interested in collaborating with the couple.

Music labels soon came knocking and JOHNNYSWIM signed with Big Picnic in 2012 who issued the single “Heart Beats” the same year. The singles “Adelina”, “Home” and “Annie” also followed in 2012 after which the pair appeared on the radio variety show “A Prairie Home Companion”. In 2014 JOHNNYSWIM issued their debut full-length album “Diamonds”, showcasing the passion, skill, emotion, and angst that went in to creating such a record.