Sunny savage biography

Is your name really Sunny Savage?

A question I’ve been asked a lot, as you can imagine.

Sunny savage biography

It brings me back to my grandfather’s animated storytelling, and being captivated with the story of my ancestor Thomas Savage – who arrived in Jamestown in 1608, at 13 years old, and was exchanged to live with Chief Powhatan and his daughter Pocahontas/Matoaka.

It is written in the texts of the time that he was beloved to them, and acted as a translator and negotiator. Later, it was Chief Debedeavon, known as the “Laughing King”, of the Nuswattock people, who gifted Savage over 9,000 acres of land on the Eastern Shore, which has been known as Savage’s Neck ever since.

I was born Sunny Johnson (no middle name) and started going by Sunny Savage over 15 years ago. Savage, my lineage, and now it just kind of rolls off the tongue. In this season of deep commune with our ancestors, I will be traveling for the first time ever to stay on Savage’s Neck, an