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Martin R Howell (born 22nd April 1972) known as JohNNy SiZZle, is a Folk Alternative and Experimental Rock singer/songwriter from Winnipeg, MB, Canada.

He began performing his odd acoustic Punk-Alternative singer/songwriter music in 1991 at coffeehouses and open-mics most notably at the original Blue Note Café in the 200 block of Main Street in Winnipeg. As years past there came other shows that would happen at Punk shows at the Royal Albert Arms, the Alternative Cabaret and the West End Cultural Centre.

JohNNy SiZZle's first recording came out in 1993 and contained the Canadian university campus radio hit "I'm a Nerd". The song has been used in the National Film Board documentary, Kid Nerd, in 1997 and used as the theme song for Nerd Nation TV show broadcasting on Tech-TV from 2004 to 2005.

One early Winter day in 1995 SiZZle decided he had enough of Winnipeg and hitchhiked east to eventually wind up in Montreal. He released a number a DIY cassette tapes and played all-ages Punk shows around Quebec until he moved to Toronto in mid 1996. He went on to play Punk and Indie all-ages & bar shows in the Toronto area as well as do some acting in low budget films until 1999. A number of DIY cassette and CD releases where put out at this time frame.

In late 1999 SiZZle moves to Sudbury, ON, and spends 9 months doing artwork and mostly song writing there but comes back to Toronto to record his first legit album with producer Benjamin Darvill. He stays living in Toronto only to promote the at-the-time new album until June 2001.

In 2001 SiZZle decides to live in Vancouver, BC, on the possibility of a love relationship that didn't fall through. Instead he found himself working as a busser/waiter/bouncer at the infamous Cobalt Hotel. He garnered the reputation as someone who dressed up in outrageous costumes for his working shifts from being a Heavy Metal/Punk Rock drag queen to looking like animals. He would also do an amateur drag act under the name "SiZZle" in various Gay bars on his off work days. Song writing is put on the back burner and only one album and very little live music performing is done in the 4 years he lived in Vancouver.

In early 2005 SiZZle moves back to Winnipeg and enters the Winnipeg Punk music scene thinking he can be himself as he was in Vancouver only to unfortunately find out that the city's Punk scene is very homophobic. He was unwelcome. He quit music only playing on the streets for small change (there was one 16 date Eastern North America tour in September/October of 2009) until 2011 and by 2012 he released his first album in 8 years on No Label Collective Records. This album got very good air-play on Canadian College Campus radio stations across the country. Since then the live scheduled shows have been very light in doing only 2 or 3 per year but the amount of releases has increased due to home recording sessions. Not only does SiZZle release acoustic music but avant-garde synthesizer music using children's electronic toy instruments. A music genre he calls "Casio_Core". 

Also under his legal name he does broadcasting for CKUW 95.9 FM and is gathering quite the local reputation for conducting very good artist interviews. You can hear his weekly show "Winnipeg Arena IS on FIRE!!!!" every Tuesdays 3 to 5 PM Central Time. 

Discography:

Pervert Teenager - cassette (1993)

This One's For the KIDZ - cassette (1995)

I Wish I Was Her - cassette (1996)

Nobody At the Punk Shoo - cassette (1997)

The Dirty Colleague - CD (1999)

JohNNy SiZZle - CD (2001)

MetamorpheSIZ - CD (2004)

Home Sweet Home - CD (2012)

Lover or a Psycho - CD (2014)

Recovery - CD (2016)

I.Took.Drugs - CD (2017)

College Campus - CD (2017)

CREEPy DOmain - CD (2018)

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