When you are living outdoors where can you go to exhale? Where can you go to laugh, to dream, to feel alive, to sing, to be? Voices Of Our City is a safe creative community for individuals experiencing homelessness — a place with song to belong. Voices Of Our City amplifies the voices of people impacted by homelessness through music and the arts. Members develop renewed hope, personal empowerment, and the life skills to achieve their goals. We use music and art to help people change their lives. We envision every person on the street themselves. Voices Of Our City. choir. creative. community. Find out more, visit https://www.voicesofourcity.org

Trailblazer Steph Johnson is using her musical talent and relentless drive to help find solutions to one of the biggest problems in America; homelessness. Five years ago, she co-founded the nonprofit "Voices of Our City Choir" and gained national recognition this past year, after the choir, which holds its weekly rehearsals in a church in one of San Diego's most underserved areas, made it to the finals of the TV show "America's Got Talent." In this episode of "Trailblazing Women," Steph shares with Sandra Maas how music is helping San Diego's unsheltered neighbors find their voice and reconnect with the community -- Join Women's Museum of California board member, Sandra Maas as she shares the stories of inspiring, visionary and daring women who are leading the way and making a difference in their communities, careers and the lives of others. Whether ordinary or extraordinary, we all have a compelling story to share. -- Learn more about the Women's Museum of California www.womensmuseumca.org Follow the Museum on social media instagram.com/womensmuseum twitter.com/womensmuseum facebook.com/womensmuseum

Steph Johnson performs live at the 2018 NAMM Show Breakfast Sessions held in Anaheim, CA.

We love this classic holiday song by Robert Wells & Mel Torme. Performed at Studio West for the Voices of Our City holiday event on December 9, 2020. Thank you to all who made this video possible! Band Family Voice Steph Johnson Piano Ed Kornhauser Bass Rob Thorsen Drums Richard Sellers Composer - Felix Bernard Lyricist - Richard B. Smith Recording Engineer - Andy Walsh Audio Engineer - Brian Scheuble Video Producer - Brian Keim Vocalist/musician Steph Johnson is also the co-founder and director of the Voices of Our City Choir. To learn more about their inspirational work together, please visit VoicesofOurCity.org To learn more about Steph, please visit her website: StephJohnsonBand.com

Voices of Our City Choir is a program co-founded by Steph Johnson— San Diego-based jazz vocalist-guitarist-songwriter. The program reaches into the homeless community to build the choir, which by now has played to impressive audiences, making the finals in America's Got Talent. Even better the program—through singing—is raising the funding necessary to build housing and shelter for the homeless. Enjoy this "power of music" conversation with Steph Johnson and Making Music Mag's Chuck Schiele. Find us online at: www.makingmusicmag.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/makingmusicmag Twitter: @makingmusicmag Instagram: @makingmusicmm About the Author Making Music Magazine Content & Creative Director, Chuck Schiele is an award-winning musician, producer, consulting editorialist for the San Diego Troubadour and music writer for Table Hopping Magazine (Syracuse, NY), visual artist, designer, activist and music fan. He still plays every day. www.ChuckSchieleMusic.com | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCibqJbALKUG5OvgTUGF6Dww