Rita Johns


Rita Johns first was discovered singing in church at St Rose of Lima church at 15 years old in Scarborough Ontario Canada in 1964
Rita Johns is a Canadian pop and rhythm and blues singer. She is most noted for receiving a Juno Award nomination for Most Promising Female Vocalist at the Juno Awards of 1982.
First discovered in 1969 while performing with a church choir in Scarborough, Toronto she performed in the Toronto area and recorded a number of singles before releasing her studio album One Woman Show in 1981. She followed up with the non-album singles "She's in Love With Her Radio" in 1982 and "Haunted by Love" in 1987, and cowrote the song "Cover Girl " for Véronique Béliveau, but did not record another full album before taking a break from the music business in 1986 to raise her children. She independently released a second album, Still Your Lady, in 1994.
In 2005, she performed at Roy Thomson Hall as part of the annual RBC Seniors Jubilee.