Biography

Vinson “Wordsworth” Johnson, is an author, musician, professor, and graduate of the University of Miami’s, Frost School of Music, with a Masters of Music Business, alum of Grand Canyon University, with a Masters of Secondary Education, and Masters of Academic Leadership. A Top 50 graduate of S.U.N.Y Old Westbury, with a Bachelors of Language Arts, where he wrote his collegiate assignments in rhyme. In 2020, his book “What Words Are Worth Volume 1: New Beginning” landed at #9 on Amazon’s Top 10 new releases in poetry, and in 2023 released a children’s book called Socks. He co-created MTV’s The Lyricist Lounge Show and his music has appeared on television and film: Bel-Air, Power, Criminal Minds, NCIS, Hurricane Season and Saint Judy. Also contributed to animation soundtracks, including Spongebob Squarepants Movie, Dexter’s Laboratory: Hip-Hop experiment, and currently appears as himself on Netflix’s Peabody and Sherman, Season 1, episode 2. Since graduating from Frost School of Music in 2016, he created a middle school music production curriculum, and licensed a songwriting course to the University of Miami. The music course captured the attention of Fox 4 News (Link below). Wordsworth has presented at Harvard University, SXSW EDU, TEACH BETTER Conference, and New York’s Baruch College to speak during one of their music business courses. He plans to turn his course curriculum into a national program. Currently, he’s working on several upcoming music and book releases. Wordsworth is always involved in evolving and using education to bring communication.