Johnny is a native of Southern California where he started a motorcycle ministry in 1975 "Lords Disciples" which later merged with Bert Aguilar of Set Free christian fellowship and became, "Soldiers for Jesus" it was during these times that Johnny met Terry Tripp of the Laverne Tripp family that was on TBN at the time at an outreach. when Terry learned that Johnny also was a Christian musician, he was asked to join him in a duet to a song "Jesus Loves Ya" by Jon Gibson, the rest is all God's doing. Johnny joined Terry at various ministry outreaches in California and was also booked to minister his Testimony and music at his own services Later in his ministry Johnny would share at various Christian Coffee houses across the Nation. Johnnys Love for Worship is displayed in his music. His tagline is “its all about Jesus”