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Sug Daniels

American singer-songwriter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ131300419
Source-derived summary

Danielle Johnson, known professionally as Sug Daniels, is an American singer-songwriter and musician.

Early life

Johnson was born in Delaware and grew up in Smyrna. She was raised in the Southern Baptist faith but left after coming out as queer.

Career

Johnson is a singer-songwriter and combines elements of folk music and rhythm and blues in her work. She previously was a rapper and singer in the musical projects Hoochi Coochi and FlowCity before embarking on a career as a solo artist.

In 2022, she released the single "Lightning In A Bottle" with John Faye. In 2023, she released the single "When I'm Gone" with Don Giovanni Records. Daniels toured and opened for The Black Opry Revue, Sarah Shook & The Disarmers, Molly Tuttle, Adeem the Artist, and William Elliott Whitmore.

Her debut studio album is scheduled to be released in 2025.

Personal life

She lives in Philadelphia with her partner Andrea and another Philadelphia singer songwriter Donnie Coco.

Editorial summary

“Sug Daniels” enters the record as american singer-songwriter. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Daniels, American and singer-songwriter can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022, 2023, 2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Daniels, American and singer-songwriter.
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Why this record matters

“Sug Daniels” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Daniels, American and singer-songwriter provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q131300419. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2022, 2023 and 2025.

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Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from Sug Daniels” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.