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Since his first professional appearance in 1972, Jonathan Sprout has recorded 12 albums, performed 6,618 concerts (including 5,588 children’s concerts) and taught 821 songwriting workshops throughout the United States. His songs have appeared on several internationally released compilation albums.

Jonathan’s four American Heroes albums have won 26 national awards and critical acclaim as groundbreaking CDs in the field of educational children’s music.

As Founder, primary songwriter, and half of the musical group Force For Good, Jonathan released the New Age album Passions in February 2020 on the Sprout Recordings label. This instrumental piano-based album debuted at #4 on the ZMR Top 100 Music Charts. It rose to #2 on the March 2020 ZMR Top 100 Music Charts and was one of the five albums nominated in the 2020 ZMR Best Piano Album with Instrumentation category.

Force For Good's second album, Innocence, was released in February 2021. It reached #4 on 2021 ZMR Top 100 Music Charts.

Working with Emmy winning film maker, Rodney Whittenberg at Melodyvision, Jonathan created a song-film (music video) for each of the 24 songs on both albums. They have been accepted into 67 festivals and won 19 awards from festivals in Cairo, Sydney, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Vienna, Tokyo, Dubai, Berlin and more. Film topics include climate change, racial and gender equality, renewable energy, the refugee crisis, gun safety, and stewardship of the great outdoors.

Jonathan is currently at work on a new piano-based album of original music.