Biography
John Denver
Real name: Henry John Deutschendorf Jr.
Effective period / Period of releases: 1966 - 2018
American guitarist, singer, composer, actor, humanitarian, and environmentalist born December 31, 1943 in Roswell, New Mexico and died October 12, 1997 at Pacific Grove, California when the single-engine airplane he was piloting crashed into the sea. He was 53 years old.He is known for popularizing acoustic folk music in the 1970s as part of the ongoing singer-songwriter movement of the mid-to-late 20th century. Denver is widely recognized as a cultural icon of the American West. He began his career as a folk singer in The Mitchell Trio and Denver, Boise & Johnson in the 1960s, before beginning his successful solo country and pop career of the 1970s and 80s. He was one of the top five best-selling artists of all time with 14 gold and eight platinum albums in the United States.
Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1996.