Johny Pitts Biography
Johny Pitts is an English television presenter, writer, and photographer from Sheffield’s Firth Park. Pitts appeared on Channel 4’s reality TV show Eden in 2002.
How old is Johny Pitts? – Age
He is 37 years old as of 2024. He was born in 1987 in Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Johny Pitts Family – Education
He is of mixed ethnicity (his father, Richie, was from Bed-Stuy, New York, and was a member of the 1970s soul band The Fantastics, which had a top ten hit with “Something Old, Something New”), while his mother is English with Irish background. He traced his roots in the 2015 BBC Radio 4 documentary Something Old, Something New, a program written and presented by Pitts that included an interview with his late father and saw Johny travel to Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn and Sullivan’s Island in South Carolina to find his father’s family.
Johny Pitts Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $4 million.
Johny Pitts Books
Pitts has written for Blues & Soul magazine, Straight No Chaser, and The Observer, and he won the Decibel Penguin Prize for New Writers. His short story “Audience” is in Penguin Books’ book The Map of Me. He studied poetry under Debjani Chatterjee and has performed alone and with renowned poets John Agard and Valerie Bloom at venues including the Albany Theatre, the Jazz Café, the Big Chill Festival, the Notting Hill Arts Club, and the Soho Theatre.
His book Afropean: Notes from Black Europe received the 2020 Jhalak Prize, the 2020 Bread and Roses Award, and the 2021 Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding. It is a written documentary on the lives and cultures of black communities across Europe, delving into the history of the black diaspora and questioning the issues and disadvantages that black people continue to face in European countries.
Johny Pitts Career
He is a sharp performer and individual from the Uncover Knuckle Inner self group, who have upheld any semblance of Omar, the Pharcyde, Plantlife and Alice Russell and gathered praise from Giles Peterson, Zane Lowe and Trevor Nelson, as well as showing up on the Norman Jay Great Times 7 assemblage.
In 2002, Pitts partook in the Station 4 unscripted tv series Eden. He was beforehand moderator for Getaway from Scorpion Island, Thunder and Out of control, He likewise had stretches on CD:UK, facilitating with Lauren Laverne and Myleene Klass, and on Blue Peter and MTV. In 2019, Pitts loaned his voice to Cyril in HISTORY’s digital recording Letters of Affection in WW2 – a series in view of the genuine letters of a couple isolated constantly Universal Conflict.
Pitts teamed up with the writer Caryl Phillips and Craftsmanship Holy messenger on a visual exposition investigating migration and the Stream Thames for the BBC/Expressions Committee’s The Space, and established the site www.afropean.com, which is essential for the Gatekeeper paper’s “Africa Organization”, and the ENAR Establishment grant winning “Afropean Culture” page. His photography has been included on The New York Times Focal point Blog and the intro pages of the Diary of Postcolonial Composing and Harvard College’s Change Magazine.