Deanna Johnston

Deanna Johnston is a Canadian musician born on March 19, 1969. She is perhaps best known as a contestant on the reality television show Rock Star: INXS.^[1]

Early life

Deanna was born and raised in Kingston, Ontario. Deanna first loved sports but it was in college where she found her love for music. Deanna graduated with a degree in graphic design. She had been working in this field for approximately a year and a half when she was asked to go on tour with a band. That band was "Mask", based in Willoughby, Ohio which featured Deanna in various costumes dressed as Madonna, Cher, Tina Turner and others, and local drummer Steve Shutts, local male vocalist Dave Richards, and a couple of fellow Canadians. She quit that gig after friends urged her to move on, and Deanna has never looked back.

Rockstar INXS

Deanna was a competitor on the 2005 TV show Rock Star: INXS, on which the Australian band INXS searched for a new lead singer. Deanna was an early frontrunner after delivering her renditions of Piece of My Heart, The One I Love, and Long Train Runnin'. On week 7 though, INXS chose I Can't Make You Love Me for Deanna to perform and for the first time she landed in the bottom three. Deanna was told to sing Never Tear Us Apart and she saved herself. The next week, Deanna sang her original song My Truth but was once again placed in the bottom three. This time she sang Elegantly Wasted and INXS asked what how she felt singing INXS songs. She said she likes to sing and dance and that their songs allow her to do both. Deanna, though, was eliminated that week.

After RockStar

Deanna has recorded original material and hopes to release a second album. Her first, self-titled release featuring original songs such as "The Other Side" and "Everything For You" was issued in 1996. Deanna also has many cuts on upcoming CDs by the likes of Joe Lynn Turner, Howard Leese, and Justine Stewart. Deanna was also featured INXS' Switch album.

In July 2007, she reappeared on television as one of the featured singers in the house band for The Singing Bee, an NBC game show hosted by former 'N Sync member Joey Fatone.

References

1. ^ Fortune smiles on INXS

External links

• Deanna Johnston

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