Gordon Lightfoot
(1938-2023)
Canadian singer-songwriter
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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."
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Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr. 17 November 1938 Orillia, Ontario, Canada
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1 May 2023 (aged 84) Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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| Zodiac | Scorpio |
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