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Songwriter/Concert Artist John Houston

Born and raised on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, John Houston led an unassuming life until age nine when a neighbor gave him a harmonica. It took two long and arduous hours of experimenting and practice, but he was finally able to play The Marines Hymn, Oh Suzanna, and a dozen other songs. John says, “I was no longer invisible.” The natural progression in music found him in the beginner band at age twelve, Junior High and High School bands where he excelled as a musician on trumpet, French horn, baritone horn, and all other brass instruments. He had also began to play guitar and piano. At age seventeen John became the youngest member of the New Orleans Philharmonic on French horn, and six months later he was hired as a union musician to play trumpet for the Eddy Arnold Show in Mobile, Alabama. Later that same year John played trumpet for The Glenn Campbell/Bobbie Gentry tour, Bobby Goldsboro, and BJ Thomas. He then joined The Shape Of Things, a very popular Rock-N-Roll Band on the Gulf Coast. In 1969 he moved to Tampa, Florida where he played trumpet, Vibraphone, and sang for The American Future. While in Florida John struck out as a single artist and opened shows for Blues Image, Credence Clearwater Revival, and Boz Scaggs.

In 1970 John left the Rock-N-Roll scene and moved back to South Mississippi where he became involved with a group of Hippies and began to distribute marijuana and LSD in a futile attempt to “turn the world on.” Jackson County Sheriff Ben Navarette, finally issued John an ultimatum which involved a choice between a long term in Parchman Penitentiary, or relocation. John saw the common sense in the latter and left Mississippi for Love Valley, North Carolina where he married and carried on with his career as a single artist in the Folk Music world. He opened shows on the for The Allman Brothers Band, Bob Dylan, The Bee Gees, and became a spiritual leader and Guru of the “New Enlightenment.” The tragic death of John’s beloved, adopted son, John Hebert and his best friend Danny Justice plunged him into a deep depression and a face off with suicide. A divine intervention eventually led John to the top of Fox Mountain where he gave his life to Christ after three days of prayer and fasting. John went into full time ministry that same day, and has served God since. He is the co-founder of The Cup Of Water Ministries in Statesville, NC, the states first licensed drug treatment and crisis intervention and counseling center. In 1977 John divorced his first wife and moved to Greensboro NC where he continued to pursue his career as a single artist. He became the highest paid, single entertainer in the state and invited for a command performance for Governor Jim Hunt at the Governor‘s mansion in Raleigh, and weeks later for US Congressman Richardson Prior at a special event for US Legislators in Washington DC. In 1986 John became the Music and Program Director for The Cathedral Of His Glory in Greensboro, NC where he began to hewn his skills as a songwriter and in 1990, after an enlightening conversation with Barry McGuire, (Eave of Destruction) when Barry told John to stop writing music to try to “please the church,” and start writing just to please God, John wrote his first hit son, Rose Anna, which Kenneth Copeland recorded. Copeland also recorded John’ song “Soldier Come Home.” And in 1994 Phil Driscoll recorded “Soldier” which moved to the number two position on the Adult, Christian, Contemporary, Billboard chart, World wide.

This opened the world to John and for the next many years, he traveled the world singing his songs and ministering. In 1996 John spoke and performed before the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, and was designated “God’s Ambassador to the UN” by UN Secretary General, Boutros-Boutros-Ghali, and was special celebrity guest at the Geneva, International Christmas Festival. John has taken his music Across Europe, Africa, Australia, South America, every state in the US, the Caribbean, and most of Canada. John lives in High Point, NC and has semi retired from the ministry due to a severe spinal injury. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nuronerd123 (talk • contribs) 03:26, 24 April 2015 (UTC)