Johnny Goudie

John Charles Goudie (born October 14, 1968, Coral Gables, Florida) is a Cuban-American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumental musician, record producer, actor, and podcaster based in Austin, Texas.

Over his five-decade career, he has received acclaim for his unique vocals and a musical style rooted in classic rock.

Goudie has been the recipient of four Austin Music Awards and has fronted several bands including Goudie, Mr. Rocket Baby, Lovetree, Panjandrum, Liars & Saints, and the Little Champions.

He has also been a sideman in several other bands, notably Endochine, the Lossy Coils, and Skyrocket.

Raised in the Miami area, Goudie comes from a family of Cuban medical doctors.

Heavily influenced by the power pop bands Jellyfish and the Zombies, Mr. Rocket Baby's philosophy was to play 70s-influenced music while dressing and acting like they were from the 1970s.

Their first shows were opening for Davíd Garza and Bob Schneider before crowds of hundreds, and they became an instant hit in Austin, inked a management deal within a week, sold their cars and bought a touring van and hit the road.

The band landed a weekly residency at Austin club The Steamboat.

In 1982, Johnny saw Cheap Trick in concert, and this experience inspired him to become a musician.

Later that year, Goudie started his first band, which he called ZEPHYR.

At age 16, Johnny became the guitarist of the band Cry Wolf, the side project of Carole King's guitarist Mark Hallman.

On October 13, 1985, when Johnny was 16, his mother was beaten over the head in her apartment.

She died 18 days later.

The crime went unsolved for 23 years until a tip led police to arrest his mother's ex-boyfriend.

In 1988, while living outside Houston, Johnny started a funk–soul band called Panjadrum.

After Panjadrum broke up in 1990, Goudie formed another band called Lovetree as well as pursued a side career as a solo artist.

In 1992 Lovetree recorded an EP entitled Sorry About the Drum Machine.

Lovetree's sound was influenced by rock, funk and Latin music.

By 1993, Goudie had left Lovetree and moved to Austin, Texas, where he fronted the rock band Mr. Rocket Baby, which included former members of Panjandrum and Lovetree.

In 1993, Mr. Rocket Baby was voted best pop band in the Austin Chronicle's readers poll, and they came in third place in voting for best new band overall.

Mr. Rocket Baby released one album, Make Believe, which was produced by Mark Hallman.

On April 10, 1994, Johnny married Traci Campbell in Austin.

The couple were married for 10 years.

In 1996-1997 Johnny played guitar for the band Sunshine and played drums on the album 4-Track Mind with the band Jez Spencer, an early incarnation of Spencer Gibb's band which would become 54 Seconds.

He independently released an album of self-recorded demos entitled 18 Unreleased Home Demos 1996-2001 as well as a Christmas album Johnny Says Ho, which was released only to his fan club.

These releases led to a series of other demo collections entitled Return of the Handlebar, I Think I'm a Genius, Electric Boogalo, Helloprah! and The Loyalist; the latter consisted entirely of covers.

He also co-wrote the song "Stuck in a Hole" on Darin Murphy's 1998 album Solitarium as well as co-wrote the song "Sun Earth Moon," which appeared on the Borrowers' second album Overcoming Gravity and was also featured in a commercial for the Cleveland Planetarium.

In Spring 1998, Johnny's new band, simply named Goudie, played the South by Southwest festival in Austin.

Goudie was the second band signed to the record label The Music Company, a subsidiary of Elektra Records, and a vanity label formed by Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich.

In July 2000, Goudie released its first album Peep Show.

In June 2001 the band left Elektra and joined friends at independent Austin label India Records, which released the band's second album ...Effects of Madness in March 2002.

However, later that year, the band split up.

Following the breakup of his band, Johnny returned to writing and recording songs in his home studio.

He appeared on Eliza Gilkyson's 2002 album Lost and Found, Colin Gilmore's album The Day the World Stopped and Spun the Other Way, and Jeff Klein's 2003 album Everybody Loves a Winner.

He continued to write his own material and in Summer 2003 he released a solo album entitled I Love Elke on Strangelove Records, a label dedicated to artists making records on their own terms.

Their divorce was the subject of many songs on Goudie's 2005 album, Boy in a Box.

After the breakup of Mr. Rocketbaby, Johnny toured with bassist Einar Pedersen and drummer Kyle Schneider, and the trio self-released an album called Fantastic.

On April 15, 2011, the man was convicted of the murder.

Goudie channeled his grief into writing 150 songs in the months following his mother's death.

Mr. Rocket Baby reunited for one concert in 2015.