Parker Johnson was born to sing. A boy soprano by age 7, Parker joined his first rock band at age 15, and took a gap year at age 18 to travel to 11 European countries and 22 US states to sing with Up With People. Attending college at UNC-Chapel Hill, Parker’s rock band travelled up and down the east coast, playing the fraternity/sorority circuit from the University of Florida to Ohio State. 

After graduation, Parker paused his passion for singing to work as an analyst in the real estate group at Morgan Stanley in New York. He later co-founded Monarch Real Estate Partners in his home city of Atlanta, spending the next decade transacting more than $1 billion in real estate deals from California to the Caribbean.  

Channeling Joseph Campbell, at the height of his success, Parker faced a personal crisis when he realized the corporate ladder he was climbing was placed against the wrong wall, calling him to leave his career and move to Boulder, landing at Highland, to write poetry and reconnect with his musical roots.

In Boulder Parker wrote and produced a rock opera called The Ladder, confronting the American Dream; Apollo’s Fire, confronting the Judeo-Christian myth; Cantaqua, confronting the extinction of homo-Sapiens and birth of homo-Illumina; a one man show called The Death and Resurrection Show; and is currently developing a music project with his wife, Ashley.   

Parker and Ashley live in Lyons with their 3 children, dog and cat on the creek in Apple Valley.