KEN JOHNSTON

Ken grew up in East Orange NJ and started
playing trombone at the age of 10, by the
time he was in high school he played for
numerous local bands gigging and touring..
After high school Ken played and toured with
gold award winning acts like Slave, Aurra,
Young and Company and Tanna Gardner. It
was at this time that he fell in love with Audio
Engineering.
Ken went audio school in NYC and
graduated number one in his class. He then
became the First Black American Assistant
Engineer at the world's most successful
Recording Studio at the time Unique
Recording. He also was an edit engineer,
editing quite a few major projects. He then
went on to becoming a Freelance Audio
Engineer in the tri state area.
After moving from studio to studio, Ken
opened up his own studio in NJ... Perfect
Pair Recordings. His studio quickly became
the most successful studio in
New Jersey. He was the first Audio
Recording studio to have full blown out Pro
Tools system. He engineered many platinum

albums for artist such as Jaheim, Next, 3LW,
Naughty by Nature, Coffee Brown, Zhane,
Escape, Groove Theory, Chaka Khan, Bilal,
Chubb Rock, Changing Faces, and received
a Grammy for the album of the year The
Miseducation of Lauryn hill. He is the first
engineer to use Auto Tune on a R&B
Multi Platinum song. No more by 3LW. He
owned a House Music Record Label and
Management Company.
He Started Perfect Pair Records where he had such acts like Alender Hope, Casio Ware, Trudy M..., Truce and many more!
Currently Ken resides in Las Vegas where
her teaches Recording Techniques at the
local college. He and his wife Dana own a
multifaceted entertainment company which
encompass a Recording Studio, Record
Company, Website Building and a Book
Publishing Company.
Ken Also Produces a weekly Radio
MixShow with its Host Lizy Johnston, "Deep in the house with 488 Records" for an FM Radio Staion Wjzp107.9 out of Portland MA.