Gordon Lightfoot

Overview

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Birthday
Nov 17, 1938 (86 years old)
Death date
May 01, 2023

Gordon Lightfoot

Known For

Anne Murray: Full Circle
1h 29m
Movie 2021

Anne Murray: Full Circle

A look a the career of singer Anne Murray, a small-town girl from a Nova Scotia coal mining town who became an international superstar.

Biography

Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. CC OOnt (November 17, 1938 – May 1, 2023) was a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music. He is credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s. He has been referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter and his songs have been recorded by some of the world's most renowned musical artists. Lightfoot's biographer Nicholas Jennings said, "His name is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and shipwrecks, rivers and highways, lovers and loneliness." Description above from the Wikipedia article Gordon Lightfoot, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.