Ron Depuy - Songwriter | Partner

Ron DePuy is a professional musician/songwriter, music director/pastor, experienced small business owner, and committed music instructor. 

As a professional songwriter, Ron wrote, recorded and produced 2 original CDs, co-wrote 3 children’s musicals, has had 2 original songs published with Maranatha! Music, and has written and recorded hundreds of original songs covering an extensive array of musical genres.  

As a professional musician, Ron has developed practical and technical skills in musicianship, music theory, arranging, and songwriting, as well as an intimate and diverse knowledge of a range of musical genres and creative musical expressions on multiple instruments.

As a small business owner, Ron acquired a wide range of marketing, customer service, and management skills. As part owner and lead instructor of Music Man Music Studio in Wilsonville, Oregon from 1993-1998, he developed school-wide curriculum and pedagogy, oversaw teacher training in and implementation of school-wide philosophy and curriculum. Developed programs to equip and train elementary school teachers to learn and effectively incorporate the guitar in the classroom setting.

As a music teacher, he personally instilled in hundreds of children, teens, and adults a love of and a respect for playing and creating music, witnessing first hand in students the countless redeeming values associated with this process, including improved academic performance, raised self-esteem, closer familial and relational bonds, and a healthy, productive outlet for self expression.

Ron lives in San Diego with his wife and 3 children.  He regularly plays in several local San Diego bands covering a wide variety of genres, including blues, jazz, classic rock, vintage 50's covers, and 80's covers.  He also performs in various acoustic duos with his 2 daughters, Emma and Abby.  

Norm Johnson - engineer | PARTNER

Norm Johnson has been in and around music and recording since 1970 when he started a singing group called Children. While in college at U.S.D, he worked at Studio West where he fell in love with the process of recording. Thus his journey began.

In 1974, after graduating from U.S.D. with a degree in Business and a degree in Accounting, he proceeded to go on the road as a sound engineer for a group called Master Design. After that 2 year stint, still passionate about the recording industry, he partnered with a friend to form a mobile 4 track recording company called Sound Truck. The business found its niche as the mobile audio rig contracted out by many Southern California video trucks as their main audio source.

However, his passion was rooted in music. He was on staff at multiple churches as their audio and lighting director where, over the course of 40 years, produced and mixed several studio CDs while designing their audio and lighting for over a hundred productions.

What started as a dream, has turned into reality. Taking the design expertise he has acquired over the course of his career, Norm designed and built a state of the art recording studio. Now teaming with long time friend, musician and mentor Ron Depuy, along with his passion for creating memories, he has found yet another new niche. In the perfect combination of all the above, Norm finds great joy in capturing and creating musical legacy. He has found that Life Song is the perfect means to that end.