Gordon Lightfoot

Gordon Lightfoot

Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr., ( 17 de noviembre, 1938, Ontario, Canadá; ), conocido como Gordon Lightfoot, es un cantante y compositor canadiense de folk, country y musica popular. Alcanzó popularidad en los 1960s, y entró en las listas internacionales de éxitos en los años setenta con canciones como "If You Could Read My Mind" (1970), "Sundown " (1974), "Carefree Highway" (1974), "Rainy Day People" (1975), y "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976).[1]

Gordon Lightfoot

Sus canciones han sido grabadas por populares cantantes como Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Barbra Streisand, Johnny Mathis, Richie Havens, Nico y Harry Belafonte.

Robbie Robertson guitarrista de The Band, grupo que acompanó a Bob Dylan, considera a Lightfoot como uno de sus cantantes favoritos y un tesoro cultural de la nación canadiense.[2] Lightfoot se presentó en la ceremonia de apertura de los Juegos Olimpicos de Invierno de 1988 celebrados en Alberta.


Referencias

  1. Adam White & Fred Bronson. The Billboard Book of Hits. ISBN 0-8230-8285-7. 
  2. Seely, Mike. «Fantasy Trade: Gordon Lightfoot for Neil Diamond, The Last Waltz: Canadian songwriter passed on the night-of invitation, much to this author's regret.», 'Seattle Weekly', 22 de agosto de 2007. Consultado el 05-04-2008.

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