Taborah Johnson

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Taborah Johnson
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Taborah Johnson
Occupation(s)Actress, singer
Years active1979–present

Taborah Johnson, also known as Tabby Johnson, is a Canadian singer and actress. She is the sister of actor Clark Johnson [1] and rock and jazz singer Molly Johnson.

She began her career in the Toronto production of Hair as a teenager. She was subsequently a backing vocalist for Rick James from 1979 to 1982, including on James' most famous single, "Super Freak". She subsequently returned to Toronto, where she sang as a jazz performer and as a backing vocalist for her sister Molly's band Infidels, and acted in occasional film and television roles, including appearances on Cagney and Lacey , Airwaves , E.N.G. , and Clark's Homicide: Life on the Street , and regular roles in the children's series Polka Dot Door , The Big Comfy Couch as Auntie Macassar from 1992 to 1996, and Noddy , as well as the film A Holiday Romance . She appeared as the FLOTUS' Chief of Staff, assistant to the First Lady, in her brother Clark's feature film The Sentinel , [2] and the 1984 HBO TV movie The Guardian with Lou Gossett and Martin Sheen.

She has also been working as creating voices in animation such as Star Wars: Ewoks , Star Wars: Droids , Babar , The Care Bears , Rupert , Beverly Hills Teens , Little Shop , Dinosaucers , Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors , Cars Toons , Madballs , My Pet Monster , Cadillacs and Dinosaurs , Ned's Newt , The Neverending Story , Flash Gordon , ALF: The Animated Series , Mythic Warriors: Guardians of the Legend , Bad Dog , Little Rosey , Blazing Dragons , The Busy World of Richard Scarry , Committed , George Shrinks , The Animal Shelf , Franklin , Quads! , Marvin The Tap-Dancing Horse , Little Bear , Silent Witness: What a Child Saw [3] and Sam and Max: Freelance Police .

In February 2005, Johnson joined Toronto jazz station CJRT-FM as the part-time host of a weekly, two-hour, gospel music show. She left CJRT barely two months later. In the summer of 2005, she appeared on Toronto news/talk station CFRB, filling in for Mark Elliot on his late night talk radio shift. In September, the station named her to a permanent, part-time, shift on Saturdays from 4 to 6 p.m. EST. She is no longer employed by the station.

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