JOHNNY SHINE

LIKE MANY KIDS BORN IN SOUTH QUEENS AND GROWING UP IN THE SHADOWS OF THE BRIGHT LIGHTS OF NYC, JOHN FRANK CUMINALE HAD A DREAM OF SOME DAY "MAKING IT" INTO THE FOCUS OF THOSE BRIGHT LIGHTS. UNSURE OF THE MEANS TO THAT END AND STILL TRYING TO FIND HIS WAY, IN 1999 AT AGE 19 HE ENROLLED IN THE LEE STRAUSBERG SCHOOL OF THEATER AND FILM IN MANHATTAN. HE QUICKLY WAS TAGGED "HOLLYWOOD" BY HIS NEIGHBORHOOD FRIENDS BUT AFTER BEING CAST IN A FEW INDEPENDENT FILMS HE REALIZED THAT THE VOICE INSIDE HIM SPOKE TO THE THOSE WHO SHARED HIS INTERESTS....THE MUSIC OF THE DAY AND THE DANCE CLUBS WHERE IT THRIVED.

IN 2000 HIS PATH LED HIM ON THE ROAD WITH DJ SKRIBBLE WHICH IN 6 YEARS TOOK HIM TO 48 STATES, TAIWAN, GERMANY AND CANCUN,MEXICO BY WAY OF MTV AND SPRING BREAK 2002-2004. JOHNNY REMEMBERS HIS FIRST MOMENT ENTERTAINING, "I WAS ON STAGE IN FRONT OF 2,500 PEOPLE, MOST OF WHICH INCLUDED MY "HATERS", AT A CLUB PULSE IN  GREEN POINT BROOKLYN AND I ROCKED THE F#%K OUT". IT WAS FROM THEN ON AS AN MC, HOST AND PERSONALITY THAT HE SHARPENED HIS SKILLS AS A SHOWMAN AND HEIGHTENED HIS STAGE PRESENCE TO AN ELITE LEVEL CULMINATING IN BALTIMORE AT RAVENS STADIUM IN FRONT OF 15,000 FANS.

AFTER 2006 HE BECAME JOHNNY SHINE UPON FINALLY "MAKING IT" UNDER THE GLOW OF THE BRIGHT LIGHTS HE DREAMED OF AS A CHILD. JOHNNY SHINE THEN MOVED ON TO HOST GIRLS GONE WILD'S CANCUN SPRING BREAK

IN MEXICO AND HIDEOUS LIQUOR FIGHT NIGHT TOUR AND ALSO WHATS UP DOWN UNDER TOUR WITH MTV REAL WORLD SYDNEY CASTMEMBER KELLY ANN AND THEN HIS PROUDEST MOMENT OF ALL...BEING ASKED TO MC FOR DJ SKRIBBLE AND NAUGHTY BY NATURE ON A 10 DAY USO TOUR ENTERTAINING OUR TROOPS THROUGHOUT KUWAIT AND IRAQ. HE HAS SINCE BEEN BOOKED COAST TO COAST WHILE NEVER FORGETTING HIS LIFELONG TIES TO A-LIST INDUSTRY ASSOCIATES UMPA FAMILY, KEVOLUTION AND CROOKLYN CLAN CREATORS DJ RIZ AND DJ SIZZAHANDZ WHO RECENTLY BLESSED HIM WITH THE TITLE OF OFFICIAL CROOKLYN CLAN MC.

AFTER GIGS WITH SUCH NOTABLE ARTISTS AS 50 CENT, PETE WENTZ, LMFAO, KIM SOZZI, LUCAS PRATA, CRYSTAL WATERS, GARY PINE, FLO RIDA, CASSIDY, KIM ENGLISH, LLOYD BANKS, MAINO, T-PAIN, FABOLUS, FATMAN SCOOP AND PREMIERE DJ'S SUCH AS FINESSE, PS1, CHACHI, RAZOR & GUIDO, ENFERNO, JASON SMITH, BIZ MARKIE, CAPRI, CLUE, WOO KID, GRAMFUNKIE AND STONEROCK TO NAME A FEW IT SEEMS AS IF THE KING OF HYPE JOHNNY SHINE HAS FOUND HIS WAY AFTER ALL.



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