Career
She is the sister of actor Clark Johnson and rock and jazz singer Molly Johnson. She began her career in the Toronto production of Hair as a teenager. She was subsequently a backing vocalist for Rick James from 1979 to 1982, including on James" most famous single, "Super Freak".
She has also been working as creating voices in animation such as Star Wars: Ewoks, Star Wars: Droids, Babar The Care Bears, Rupert, Beverly Hills Teens, Babar, Little Shop, Dinosaucers, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Cars Toons, Madballs, My Pet Monster, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Ned"s Newt, The Neverending Story, Flash Gordon, ALF: The Animated Series, Mythic Warriors: Guardians of the Legend, Bad Dog, Little Rosey, Blazing Dragons, The Busy World of Richard Scarry, Committed, George Shrinks, The Animal Shelf, Franklin, Quads!, Marvin The Tap-Dancing Horse, Little Bear and Sam and Max: Freelance Police.
In February 2005, Johnson joined Toronto jazz station CJRT as the part-time host of a weekly, two-hour, gospel music show. She left CJRT barely two months later.
In the summer of 2005, she appeared on Toronto news/talk station CFRB, filling in for Mark Elliot on his late night talk radio shift. In September, the station named her to a permanent, part-time, shift on Saturdays from 4 to 6 p.m.
She is no longer employed by the station.
