Jackson Browne

Browne was born October 9, 1948, in Heidelberg, Germany, where his father Clyde Jack Browne, an American serviceman, was stationed for his job assignment with the Stars and Stripes newspaper. Browne's mother, Beatrice Amanda (née Dahl), was a Minnesota native of Norwegian ancestry. Browne has three siblings. Roberta "Berbie" Browne was born in 1946 in Nuremberg, Germany; and Edward Severin Browne was born in 1949 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His younger sister, Gracie Browne, was born a number of years later. At the age of three, Browne and his family moved to his grandfather's house, Abbey San Encino, in the Highland Park district of Los Angeles. In his teens, he began singing folk songs in local venues such as the Ash Grove and The Troubador Club. He attended Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton, California, graduating in 1966. Clyde Jackson Browne is a German/American singer-songwriter and musician who has sold over 18 million albums in the United States. Coming to prominence in the 1970s, Browne has written and recorded songs such as "These Days", "The Pretender", "Running on Empty", "Lawyers in Love", "Doctor My Eyes", "Take It Easy", "For a Rocker", and "Somebody's Baby". In 2004, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, and given an honorary doctorate of music by Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked him as 37th in its list of the "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time".

Clyde Jackson Browne ist ein amerikanischer Rockmusiker und Singer-Songwriter. Geboren in Deutschland als Sohn eines dort stationierten Zivil-Angestellten der US-Army, lebt er seit seinem dritten Lebensjahr in Los Angeles. Als Teenager lernte Browne Gitarre spielen und wurde während seiner Schulzeit im Orange County (Kalifornien) Folk-Gitarrist und Mitglied in mehreren Bands, unter anderem in der Country-Formation Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. In den 1960er Jahren schrieb er seine ersten Songs, welche 1967/68 auf Schallplatten von Tom Rush sowie Nico und Steve Noonan veröffentlicht wurden. Anfang der 1970er Jahre war er einer der bedeutendsten amerikanischen Songautoren neben Joni Mitchell und James Taylor. Seine bislang größten Erfolge hatte er in den 1970er und den frühen 1980er Jahren, als jedes seiner Alben die amerikanischen Top Ten erreichte.