Best known for his songs 'Carefree Highway' and 'The Wreck Of Edmund Fitzgerald,' Gordon Lightfoot was 84
Born on November 17, 1938, in Orillia, Ontario, Lightfoot was the son of a local dry cleaner. He didn’t follow in those footsteps,, singing “Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ral ” over the loudspeaker at his school’s parents’ day. As a teen, he learned piano, taught himself drums, and continued to perform at his vocational high school before studying music at Westlake College of Music.Lightfoot’s recording career began with a trip to Nashville in 1961.
“Sincerely, I love the songs,” he said of his hits. “I really do believe in my songs a lot. I know which ones really work best on the stage. And fortunately, all those songs, they really work.”, in 2020 and spent his last three years attempting to get back on the road, despite his failing health. Over his career, h
e received 16 Juno Awards and five Grammy nominations. Additionally, Lightfoot was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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